I think those are stretch marks from things being stored in the pockets. I wouldn’t call this bag new (I think Fashionphile can be optimistic/somewhat random with their wear assessments) as normal storage wouldn’t do this. Two of my pockets show stretching like this because of what I put in them - things like phones can stretch the leather at the phone corners, or things that aren’t flat can push at other points. If you look at more heavily used bags eg on eBay you can see more examples.Pictures are in my original post above. I circled the areas of questions in my photos also. https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/hooray-for-the-halzan.892831/post-35106532