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Out Your Backdoor: man-bag-in-purse action, plus a Swedish three-way

A reader writes . . .

Like many, I got tired of having so much banging around in various pockets. Tired of stuff falling out when I leaned over. Tired of not having what I needed, of not having things to help me fritter away some time when I got stuck somewhere.

Now, I always have a paperback, a cam, a pad, a pipe (and aromatic tobacco that makes my man purse smell great), a flask, hanky, shades, SAK, duct-tape, zipties…oh, man, life is sweet!

I find I need satchels of at least two sizes. OK, I commonly use FIVE—the biggest is a hockey bag and I can live out of that (did for a winter once as a ski bum).

My latest common set-up is to toss my man purse INTO a bigger satchel for a day’s worth of action—the manpurse doesn’t hold books or enough food and water but it does have everything else already in it.

I fell hard over the edge when I went I went to a Renaissance Fest a couple years ago. All those pouches and holsters and the smell of leather from all those booths selling leather stuff, just drove me nuts. I had to get me a pouch and some leather stuff. The muzzleloader re-enactors have it almost as good with their “possibles bags.”

Renaissance festivals . . . pipes . . . leather sniffing . . . man bags inside man bags . . . re-enactors. Where does this guy come from?

The Out Your Backdoor Three-Way Shoulder and Bike Bag

Williamston, Michigan, it turns out. His name is Jeff Potter, and he’s the proprietor of an extensive outdoor- and independent-culture website named (shockingly) Out Your Backdoor.

Potter sells his own line of outdoorsy recycled and rebranded man purses on the site, including what he calls the “World’s Only 3-Way Bag,” a Swedish military shoulder bag repurposed so it can also fit on a bicycle.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 9th, 2006 at 11:35 am and is filed under Man Bags, Shoulder Bags, Military Bags, Recycled Materials, Manufacturers, Backpacks, Saddlebags, Bicycle Bags. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.


2 Responses to “Out Your Backdoor: man-bag-in-purse action, plus a Swedish three-way”

  1. A messenger bag in a backpack - The Satchel Pages: Home of the Man Purse Says:
    June 20th, 2006 at 9:41 pm

    […] We’ve heard from man-purse enthusiasts employing the bag-in-a-bag strategy. But here’s a bag that appears to do all the fancy inserting for you: The Chrome Messenger Backpack. […]

  2. Jeff Potter Says:
    November 14th, 2007 at 8:29 pm

    Hi there! Thanks for the write-up. My customers and I have discovered that these bags are actually FIVE WAY bags.

    Also, I’m now calling it the “OYB Normal Bag.” Get it? : )

    The five ways are: shoulderbag, saddlebag, handlebar bag, pannier and backpack!

    These bags work great, dandy and handy for all 5 uses. If you wonder HOW this can all come to pass, check out my website.

    Enjoy!

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