It's travel season, fellas, and luggage should be on your mind. From our deep selection of bags, we recommend getting to know the duffel-an all-purpose genre you probably thought you knew.

The duffel can surprise. For instance, were you aware the duffel bag was named after its birthplace, the city of Duffel, Belgium? Which you may pronounce doo-fell depending on where in the world you're from?

The innovative aspect of this particular Hex brand duffel is that keeps your shoes separate from your clothes. Which is important because at some point during your travels, your shoes may smell not-great. It happens. And if that's the case, your clothes won't deserve that aromatic inheritance.

As you can see one pair of shoes fits easily into each side compartment. The middle compartment is pretty much the size of a standard stack of folded clothes and has a sleeve for your laptop or tablet.

And here's the back, with another sleeve for your other laptop or tablet. Or a bunch of crushed boarding passes and rolled-up New Yorkers. And an almost empty bag of trail mix. Or is that just us?