I teach so it's functional for me to have as a bag and I seem to carry a lot of crap so I typically don't mind it, but I'm also anti-small bag so hehe, i'm probably not much help. I'd say if it felt it is too big it probably is, i made that mistake with both bambinone's I have bought one never got into the size, (strap is too short to me) and then bought another now selling both as a result