Bottega Veneta Jodie Bag Sizes in cm: Mini, Small, Medium & Maxi

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Bottega Veneta's own product pages list six Jodie tiers: Candy (17 x 16 x 6.5 cm), Mini (28 x 23 x 8 cm), Small (36 x 21 x 13 cm, called Teen Jodie until late 2025), Jodie (40 x 48 x 16 cm), Medium (54 x 50 x 20 cm) and Maxi (65 x 90 x 20 cm). The 36 x 21 x 13 tier carried the same style code under both names, so the Teen-to-Small rename is verifiable; no source uses 'Classic Jodie', and the 40 x 48 x 16 body is now listed simply as 'Jodie'.

The Bottega Veneta Jodie is the house’s rounded intrecciato hobo, and it hangs from a single knotted handle rather than a strap. Bottega’s own product pages list six tiers, from the 17 cm Candy to the 65 cm Maxi. That one detail drives most of the confusion around its sizing. Because the knot is a handle, the published height of a Jodie includes the handle, and the tiers read far taller on paper than they do in the hand. Because there is no strap, resale platforms publish a handle drop instead of a strap drop, and the figure they print varies more than the bags do.

The naming adds a second layer. Bottega’s own product pages have used different words for the same body over the years, and the change that looks like a simple rename to a shopper is, on the brand’s own pages, a change spread across several years and only partly visible. This page works from Bottega’s product pages first, states where the rename can be pinned to a style code, and says plainly where a name has no source behind it.

Six tiers Bottega still names, two more that only resellers use

Bottega’s product pages carry six Jodie tiers: Candy, Mini, Small, Jodie, Medium and Maxi. Two of those names are worth flagging because their page copy disagrees with the product name: the Candy Jodie is described in its own product text as “Micro Intrecciato leather top handle bag”, and the tier listed today as “Jodie” — with no size word at all — was listed as “Small Jodie” in 2021 and 2022.

Two further names appear only away from the brand. Large Jodie is a resale platform’s name for a measured item whose numbers are identical to the ones that platform lists under Small Jodie, so it is one tier carrying two channel names rather than a distinct size. Padded Jodie appears in a single 2022 magazine size guide and in none of the brand or retailer pages we checked, so its measurements stand alone.

That is the shape of the problem: six names the brand uses, two more the resale market has added, and one dimension — the width — that never shifts between them.

Jodie measurements across every tier, with the handle drop for each

The top six rows are Bottega’s own published figures, taken from the product pages of each style code. The last two rows come from a resale platform’s measured item and from a 2022 magazine size guide respectively, and the table says so because neither number has a brand page behind it.

Read down the width column and the family is straightforward: 17, 28, 36, 40, 54, 65 cm, with the resale “Large” sitting on the same 40 cm body as the fourth row. Read down the height column and it is not: 16, 23, 21, 48, 50, 90 cm. The height column is not measuring the same thing as the width column, which is the subject of the next two sections.

The rename that can be verified, and the one that cannot

Style codes settle this. The 36 x 21 x 13 cm tier carries the code 690225VCPP01229 on both a January 2024 product page and a December 2025 product page. The 2024 page titles it “Teen Jodie” and describes it as a Teen intrecciato leather shoulder bag; the 2025 page titles the same code “Small Jodie” and describes it as a Small intrecciato leather shoulder bag. The measurements are identical — height 21 cm, width 36 cm, depth 13 cm — and so is the handle drop at 18 cm.

So the Teen-to-Small rename is real, it happened between January 2024 and December 2025, and it changed nothing about the bag. What no source supports is the second half of the story you will see repeated in listings: that the former Small Jodie became the “Classic Jodie”. The 40 x 48 x 16 cm body carries code 600261VCPP01229, and Bottega’s own pages for that code went from “Women’s Small Jodie” in 2021 and 2022 to plain “Jodie” in 2025 — a size word dropped altogether rather than exchanged. The word “Classic” does not appear as a Bottega name on any page in this range, and it is not used by the retailers and resale platforms we checked either. It is a listing habit, and a buyer comparing a “Classic Jodie” against a “Small Jodie” is often comparing the same 40 x 48 body against its own former name.

There is a third layer underneath that. The 36 cm tier is Small today; the 40 cm tier was Small until 2022. A listing written in 2022 that says “Small Jodie” means the 40 cm body, while one written in 2026 means the 36 cm one. The word reversed direction, and the style codes are the only thing that stayed put.

Why a published Jodie height is twice its measured body height

The height column is where the published figures and the measured ones part company, and the split is consistent across the range. Bottega publishes 48 cm of height for the 40 x 48 x 16 cm body; resale platforms measure that same tier at about 25 to 28 cm tall. Bottega publishes 50 cm for the Medium; a resale listing measures roughly 28 cm. The Mini is published at 23 cm and measured at about 15 cm. The Maxi is published at 90 cm and measured at about 34 cm.

The gap runs with the handle, not with the size word. The two largest gaps — about 20 cm on the 40 cm body and about 56 cm on the Maxi — sit in the same range as the handle drops those pages list for the same tiers, 30 cm and 55 cm. When a bag hangs by a knot and the height is taken from the top of the knot to the base, the number grows by roughly the length of the handle, and it tells you something worth knowing: it is how much vertical space the bag occupies on a shelf or against the body. It is simply not the height of the bag’s body, and Bottega’s pages do not state which of the two they are giving. The gap is not a constant either: the Mini’s 23 cm published height against about 15 cm measured leaves roughly 8 cm.

Reading a resale listing: body measurement versus whole-bag measurement

Two conventions are in circulation and they are easy to tell apart once you know which column to look at.

The brand convention takes the height from the top of the knot to the base, and gives a round centimetre figure: 23 cm for the Mini, 21 for the Small, 48 for the 40 cm body, 50 for the Medium, 90 for the Maxi. Retailers that copy brand specifications repeat it — one department store lists the 40 x 48 body as 19 in wide, 15.75 in tall and 6.25 in deep, and the 54 x 50 body as 21.25 in by 19.75 in by 7.75 in, which lines up with Bottega’s own numbers.

The resale convention measures the piece in front of the photographer with the handle collapsed or excluded, in whole inches: 6 in tall for the Mini, 8.5 to 9 in for the 36 cm tier, 10 to 11 in for the 40 cm body, 11 in for the Medium. Widths in that convention come very close to the published widths — 14.5 and 14.25 in for the 36 cm tier, 16 in for the 40 cm body, 21 in for the Medium — which is why the width column is the one worth trusting across platforms.

Two practical consequences follow. First, when a resale platform and Bottega disagree on the height of the same tier by 20 cm, neither is wrong: they are answering different questions. Second, when a listing quotes a height of 11 in on a 40 cm body, that is not a smaller bag — it is the same bag measured the other way.

Handle drops from 6 cm to 55 cm, and what each carries

Because there is no strap, the drop figure describes how the knot handle sits relative to the body, and it scales with the tier in a way that is easy to feel: 6 cm on the Candy, 10 cm on the Mini, 18 cm on the Small, 30 cm on both the 40 cm body and the Medium, and 55 cm on the Maxi.

A 6 cm drop is a hand carry with a couple of fingers through the knot. Ten centimetres takes a wrist or a light shoulder placement. Eighteen centimetres is the point at which the bag clears most shoulders comfortably, which is why the 36 cm tier is the one most often described as the everyday Jodie. At 30 cm the two largest everyday tiers sit lower and can be pushed onto a coat shoulder. The Maxi’s 55 cm drop is a different kind of carry entirely, closer to a shoulder tote than to the under-arm hobo the smaller tiers read as.

One caution on the numbers themselves. Resale platforms publish figures for “the same” tier that do not match Bottega’s — one lists a 13 cm drop for the 40 x 48 body, another 9 in (about 23 cm), another 10 in (about 25 cm), and another 7 in (about 18 cm), against Bottega’s own 30 cm for that style code. Those are handle measurements taken on a slouched bag with the knot relaxed, not drops of a fixed strap. The brand’s figure is the one to compare across tiers; the resale figure tells you how the piece in the photograph happens to hang.

Width is the only figure that survives every source

If you want one number to carry into a conversation, make it the width. Across every source we compared, the widths agree closely while the heights and depths scatter: 17 cm on the Candy, 28 on the Mini, 36 on the Small, 40 on the body Bottega now lists as Jodie, 54 on the Medium, 65 on the Maxi. The resale-measured equivalents land within about 1 cm of each of those.

Depths are the least stable column, and the Mini shows why: Bottega publishes 8 cm of depth, while a resale platform measures about 2 in, or roughly 5 cm, on the same tier. On a soft hobo that is compressed for a photograph, the depth across the base depends entirely on how much is inside and how the piece is propped up. Use the published depth to compare tiers against each other, and expect a measured depth to come in under it.

So a listing’s width tells you which tier you are looking at. Its height tells you which measuring convention the seller used. Its depth tells you how full the bag was when the photo was taken.

Lambskin, the one German Maxi page, and what the material fields say

Every tier whose Bottega product page we could read gives the same headline material: 100% lambskin, described as intrecciato. The Candy Jodie is 100% lambskin; the Mini is 100% lambskin; the 36 cm tier is 100% lambskin under both of its names; the 40 cm body is lambskin with a calf-leather lining; the Medium is lambskin. The Maxi is the only tier whose specification page we could read in a language other than English — a German-language Bottega page, which lists 100% lambskin with a light calf-leather lining, a zip closure and the knot detail at the handle.

Two things sit outside that. A long-running third-party specification table adds a suede trim to the material line for the smaller tiers, which the brand pages do not mention; and the Padded Jodie’s single source lists that tier as available in lambskin, suede and a rubber finish, a spread that reads as a special-edition line rather than a mainstream one. Where a listing quotes a material beyond lambskin, the source for it is a retailer or a magazine rather than a Bottega page, which is worth knowing before treating the material as fixed for a tier.

What the Jodie is not

A few negatives are as useful as the measurements, because they rule out listings.

The Jodie has no chain. Every tier hangs from the knotted intrecciato handle, and no Bottega page in this range lists a chain, a removable strap or an adjustable length. A listing describing a Jodie with a chain or a crossbody strap is describing something else.

The Jodie is not the Cassette. Bottega’s padded intrecciato crossbody — a flap bag with a thin strap, recorded in our own model archive — is a different family with a different construction and a different carry. A boxy padded bag with a flap and a shoulder strap is the Cassette; the rounded crescent with a knot is the Jodie.

And the Jodie’s sizes are not interchangeable words. Small means 36 cm today and 40 cm before 2022; Teen means 36 cm and is the same bag as today’s Small; Medium means 54 cm on Bottega’s pages and 40 cm in at least one widely copied specification table; Large is a resale name for the 40 cm measured body.

Asking for a Jodie in the right terms

The reliable way to describe a Jodie is by its width and its drop, not by its name. “36 cm wide with an 18 cm handle drop” identifies the Small beyond argument. “40 cm wide with a 30 cm handle drop” identifies the body Bottega lists as Jodie. “28 cm wide with a 10 cm drop” is the Mini.

If you are asking about a Jodie, send three figures: the width across the base with the bag resting flat, the depth at the base, and the handle drop measured from the top of the knot to the top edge of the body. Those three numbers place the tier without reference to any name, which matters because the names have moved twice in five years while the bags have not moved at all.

One last point about the words. If a listing says “Classic Jodie”, ask which style code it is. The tier that name usually points to is the 40 x 48 x 16 cm body with the 30 cm drop, which Bottega itself lists simply as “Jodie”, and which was sold as the “Small Jodie” until 2022.

Tell us which Jodie you are considering on WhatsApp with the model or a screenshot, and we will confirm the size, the weave, the handle drop and the current options before you commit — with the width, height and depth in centimetres of the exact item in front of us. Browse the Bottega Veneta gallery for current photos, or open the Bags Catalog to see every brand album.

The woven handle version is documented separately on the Bottega Veneta Jodie model reference, where the published size sits beside the knot detail and the album photos we are working from.

Every Jodie tier above, with its published handle drop, is a row in the Luxury Bag Size Index, together with the resale-platform measurement of the same 40 cm body.