Archive for the 'Manufacturers' Category

A man purse for walkers

Monday, May 8th, 2006

Just because you have stability or mobility issues doesn’t mean you can’t carry a man purse! Our stand-out pick for walker wielders who want a pouch for personal items but might have trouble with a torso-wrapping strap is the Side Mount Walker Carryon, from Homecare Products, Inc.
The bag is lightweight (at least until you fill [...]

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The $15,000 man purse

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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How to get a handle on your own messenger bag

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

Just click on the box next to the “grab strap” option when you order it at the Timbuk2 website. The handle will cost you $10 extra.
Want a center divider? You can order one of those, too.
We like Timbuk2’s Custom Messenger Bag Builder. It’s easy to use, it provides a range of choices for building a [...]

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Why it’s so bright inside your dark man purse

Monday, May 1st, 2006

So here’s a decent bag for a man to carry: the Personal Organizer Shoulder Bag from REI. It features a handle, two main compartments, plus a zippered front pocket, and it comes in granite-and-black Cordura nylon.
But why is the interior bright orange?
To help you see your keys, black iPod, or passport better when you’re fishing [...]

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Specialized bags for record holders

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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A backpack suitable for the working world

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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Man-bag innovations: The Shling

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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Gadget-worn pockets: The law-enforcement solution

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

Writing in the current issue of Make magazine, technology columnist Andy Ihnatko enumerates the hassles of storing gear in your pants:
Every night, you have to empty all of your pockets. Every morning, you have to fill ’em up again. And portable pockets (in the form of belt pouches) are a mere Band-Aid solution. Unless your [...]

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The diagonal toolbelt

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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An inkling of the coming post-man-purse era

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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