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Archive for the 'Fashion' Category
Monday, December 4th, 2006
Ever wonder which celebrities are wearing which man purses? Ever wonder what random internet poll-clickers think of them?
AOL’s Entertainment News (“from People magazine”) is happy to help, by featuring a virtual man-purse fashion show: five photos of male celebrities and their bags. And readers get to vote: are the man bags hot or not?
Trotted out [...]
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Posted in Clutches, Coin Purses, Fashion, Man Bags, Manufacturers, Public Image, Role Models, Shoulder Bags | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
ABC’s Nightline news program scooped the fashion world last night by airing a short segment that reveals a shocking fact: Certain men, it seems, have been carrying bags that look “suspiciously like purses.”
Correspondent John Berman demonstrates the resourcefulness of a crack reporter by stepping a few paces outside ABC’s New York studios to interview some [...]
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Posted in Commentary, Fashion, Man Bags, Public Image, Role Models, Shoulder Bags | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
Reader Craig Keirstead writes to clue us into a simmering international controversy that’s been roiling the sports and fashion worlds in the last month — since tennis star Andy Roddick used his blog to issue some unprovoked criticism of man bags and the men who wear them.
“I have seen some guys walking around with man [...]
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Posted in Commentary, Fashion, Man Bags, Role Models, Sports Bags, Wallets | 6 Comments »
Thursday, May 4th, 2006
More details emerge on the fist-filling man bag that movie star Terrence Howard was waving all over the place at the Academy Awards earlier this spring.
Mr. Howard’s black alligator clutch, it turns out, was created by handbag designer Ralph Barbero of Barbero Sicily, and just became available to Oscar-nominee wannabes at a San Francisco boutique [...]
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Posted in Clutches, Fashion, Man Bags, Manufacturers, Role Models, Small Purses, Stores | No Comments »
Thursday, April 27th, 2006
We spend most of our energy at this site exploring bags and satchels that serve a broad cross section of the male population. But men hesitant to jump on the man-purse bandwagon should be aware of the myriad specialty man bags that have provided for the extremely particular needs of male workers conducting important, technical, [...]
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Posted in Commentary, DJ Bags, Fashion, Man Bags, Manufacturers, Military Bags, Recycled Materials | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
One of the most difficult parts of the transition from college to full-time work is ditching your favorite bookbag for something more . . . suitable for the office. Your Jansport backpack may have stuck by you through countless library treks and day hikes, but you’d might as well be carrying a Hefty trash bag [...]
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Posted in Backpacks, Bookbags, Briefcases, Fashion, Laptop Bags, Man Bags, Manufacturers, Marketing | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
How’s that heavy laptop bag treating you? Does it ever make you feel like you’re lugging a bag full of golf clubs over your shoulder?
If that’s the case, you and your aching neck may be interested in the latest innovation in man-purse technology: The OGIO Shling.
OGIO, a company that makes bags for a wide variety [...]
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Posted in Backpacks, Fashion, Laptop Bags, Man Bags, Man Purse Technology, Manufacturers, Messenger Bags, Shoulder Bags, Straps | No Comments »
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
Deep in the comments section of Lore Sjöberg’s Wired News column on backpacks, satchels, fanny packs, and other man-purse standins, a reader alerts us that the bandolier of the author’s dreams may already exist.
Mr. Sjöberg, you may recall, touted the manly qualities of bandoliers in his article, and imagined a celebrity-ridden campaign encouraging their widespread [...]
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Posted in Bandoliers, Fashion, Man Bags, Manufacturers, Public Image | 2 Comments »
Monday, April 17th, 2006
Regular readers of the Satchel Pages are probably aware that we do not shy from media criticism, especially when the work of journalism in question exhibits shoddy reporting or lazy generalizations. But if we’re going to point out flaws when they are apparent, we should also dish out kudos when they are deserved, especially in [...]
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Posted in Bandoliers, Commentary, Fashion, Marketing, Military Bags, Public Image, Role Models | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
What? Could the end of the great man-purse experiment be upon us already?
A brief item in last week’s Variety treats the current wave of man-purse confessions (see Puff Daddy’s, for example, below) as if it were merely the wake resulting from a fashion belly flop.
A mere four sentences, the featurette describes two non-pursey options for [...]
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Posted in Clothing, Commentary, Electronics, Fashion, Gadget Bags, Man Bags, Manufacturers, Public Image, Tiny Purses, Unobtrusive Bags | No Comments »
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