This week’s big man-purse news, of course, is the reintroduction of Mattel’s Ken doll — tan, rested, and ready after a two-year break from Barbie, his longtime girlfriend. The new Ken has two outfits: One is a beach getup that will be available in stores soon. But the other, featured more prominently in the rush [...]

Yesterday we implied that those homeless vets in Seattle who received $16,000 in proceeds from the sale of Tom Bihn’s “famous label” T-shirts might have been less comfortable with the whole idea if that money had come directly from sales of the company’s man purses. But that was before we saw these pictures of [...]

We thought we had covered the Chewbacca man-purse controversy rather thoroughly earlier, but we apparently failed to include any chewy insights from a true expert on the subject. That expert would be Glenn Mendler, who refers to himself as the Joseph Campbell chair of Mythology at Lucas College and the author of Chewbacca’s Purse: Androgyny [...]

What do Raiders of the Lost Ark and Star Wars have in common? Well, yes, Harrison Ford, but also . . . anyone? anyone?
Both feature . . . yes, a man purse. In Star Wars, though, it’s worn by the wookiee. That thing is a purse, isn’t it? “I know it’s not suspenders, ’cause he’s [...]

There’s the Indiana Purse Defense, and then there’s the Indiana Purse Obsession: Collectors of MKVII gas-mask bags will want to compare their findings with those of the sartorial archeologists at Indygear. A good tool for wannabes deciding among originals, knockoffs, lookalikes, and reproductions.

Raiders of the lost murse [The Satchel Pages]
Indiana Jones Shoulder Bag [Indygear]
Indiana Jones [...]

In man-bag lore, one satchel-bearing figure looms over the rest, providing cultural cover to countless purse-toting fellers. No, we don’t mean Kermit (here he’s just being a copy-frog). We mean Indiana Jones.
“Indiana Jones wore one” is the wail of wounded young man-purse wearers everywhere. If you find yourself toting out the Indiana Purse Defense, though, [...]

This week’s man-purse poster boy is apparently concerned about his street cred.
“I consider myself more a nerd than a geek,” Josh Herman tells the Detroit Free Press. His distinction is interesting, but does little to explain the man purse he wears in his publicity photo from the WB’s “Beauty and the Geek,” in which Herman [...]