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what sort of bags do the men of ilx use?

I used to wear a backpack, but they are so uncouth. I now have a litte satchel thing, but it is just too small for my manly needs. I have pondered getting a messenger bag, but I have not fallen so deeply into depravity that I will allow myself to be accessorized like some hipster scum.

brands, types, links, any help would be appreciated.

― neal gayman, Monday, 24 January 2005 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

http://s7ondemand1.scene7.com/is/image/EddieBauer/EB03II_0230681_100C1?wid=300&hei=300&fmt=jpeg&qlt=75,0&op_sharpen=1&resMode=trilin&op_usm=0.5,1.0,0.0,0

― Remy (x Jeremy), Monday, 24 January 2005 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i have this

http://www.dieselsweeties.com/shirts/skullbagpics.shtml

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Monday, 24 January 2005 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The only time I can't find everything I need into pants/jacket is when I've got a ton of booze, and then a plastic bag filled with bottles/cans is the classiest option.

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 24 January 2005 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.trigonalmayhem.com/bag1.jpg

http://www.trigonalmayhem.com/bag2.jpg

and

http://users.wpi.edu/~wcoppock/mybag.jpg

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Monday, 24 January 2005 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.turntablelab.com/gear/pics1/gravis-sidearm/main-1.jpg

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 24 January 2005 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got a small Ampac messenger bag. I used to have bigger, less hipster scum-ish bag, but I kept turning around and knocking things over when I had it on. This forces me to travel light anyway...a book or two, a couple cds, iPod, and drumsticks.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 January 2005 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's the copy of Blankets that puts Jim's bag squarely into hipster territory.

http://www.dieselsweeties.com/shirts/skullbag/bag01.jpg

Or is it the iBook?

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 24 January 2005 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, it's their combined hipster might

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 January 2005 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Kochalka too!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 24 January 2005 05:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i have a muji work bag, can't find any good pics of it online, but it's awesome.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 January 2005 05:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Defend the Indefensible: Men With Bags

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 24 January 2005 06:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I have to carry a laptop for work. I finally stopped carrying it in a backpack because I was tired of looking like a student, but now I have this bag that's like an advertisement for "Steal My Laptop".

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 24 January 2005 06:37 (twenty-one years ago)

from that dieselsweeties link:

"Measures 14.5" wide x 12" tall x 5" deep - perfect for a change of clothes and an iBook when you sleep over at someone sexy's house."

― gem (trisk), Monday, 24 January 2005 07:22 (twenty-one years ago)

These two bags cover all my needs in between work, grad school and the NYC DC commute, plus carryon for random trips to visit relatives or fight in the streets of London:

eBags Weekender Convertible

eBags Remix Backpack

I honestly think these things are worth about twice the price, for what I've put them through so far. Who gives a shit if they come with ridiculous titles, it's not like they're written on the things. To be honest, the lack of a popular name brand was a kind of a selling point for me.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 24 January 2005 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got a green Dickies bag. It holds a book, a bottle of scent, a CD player and a few rubbers, and it's got a little zip pocket to hold any pharmaceutics. It's perfect. I also left it down the pub last night after a pub quiz, so I've got to trek back into the middle of Oxford at lunch today to collect it, assuming it's still there. Grrrr.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 24 January 2005 09:01 (twenty-one years ago)

http://chromebags.com/metro_city.jpg

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 24 January 2005 09:08 (twenty-one years ago)

http://chromebags.com/shoulder_detail_silver_grey.jpg

best bag ever.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 24 January 2005 09:09 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.flight001.com/

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Monday, 24 January 2005 10:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Thoughts on the American Man-Purse is like my favourite ilx thread ever, possibly still.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 24 January 2005 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't find a pic of mine on the web, but it's a black leather Hidesign shoulder bag, and it's beautiful.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 24 January 2005 10:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't see what's so bad about messenger bags. they're roomy and usually pretty comfortable to carry around. so what if some guy with tight pants and carefully messy hair is also carrying one?

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 24 January 2005 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeff-PPT - That bag may well be practical, but it's as ugly as sin

― Seuss, Monday, 24 January 2005 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

no way. chrome bags rule.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 24 January 2005 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's the hilarious mass of buckles in the front that make it ugly, not the chrome. Keep it simple, etc.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 24 January 2005 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

"radio holster shown attached. sold as a separate item"

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 24 January 2005 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

oh joy.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 24 January 2005 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I do like the seatbelt buckle. If you coule pare it down to just that one buckle, you'd be into something.

Alos, lose the granola beads, dude.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 24 January 2005 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i am thinking of trying to encourage the use of briefcases more

― Stevem On X (blueski), Monday, 24 January 2005 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

http://img164.exs.cx/img164/7092/porkcongress6ax.jpg

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 24 January 2005 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I do like the seatbelt buckle. If you coule pare it down to just that one buckle, you'd be into something.

yeah, mine is just the buckle. love it.

Alos, lose the granola beads, dude.

yes.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 24 January 2005 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

bah alternative tentacles don't sell my bag anymore. basically imagine a paper boy's flourescent yellow bag, with an AT logo on it (which then also had lots of other band logos scrawled on it by me).

NB i no longer carry this bag around, now i haf a tasteful h&m satchel, but since getting my ipod i haven't really had anything to carry around...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 24 January 2005 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.notempo.com/pavement/images/marcjacobsad.jpg

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Monday, 24 January 2005 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

what about the yak pak?

― stewart downes (sdownes), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I have 2 of these in red and black. They have nice side pockets to put cell phone, keys, flask. Bag searchers never check the side pockets. Plus, if it breaks you can take it to the store and they should give you a replacement bag to use while it is being repaired. This may just be the NY store though.
http://www.jackspade.com/greenest/messenger06/images/product.jpg
http://www.jackspade.com/greenest/messenger08/images/product.jpg

― S!monB!rch (Carey), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't find a picture of mine. It's a Levis brown-corduroy record bag, basically. I used to really love it. Then I left it on a chair in a bar and this guy I really hate sat down on it for a very long time, and the next day I found the front face marred by a wide crusty-white stain that bears unfortunate resemblance to a great big load of dried-up semen. I blame guy-I-hate, but what could the stain possibly be?

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I have had messenger bags since early high school. Don't be concerned with the hipster stigma. They are roomy, keep your hands free, and you are aware of where it is on your body most of the time. I have had people try to go through my backpack while it is on me at shows so many times.

― S!monB!rch (Carey), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Corny Indie Fuq bag circa 1990. From the army surplus shop, cost £5.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

eeeeewwwww nabisco1!!!! sorry man.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i have a jack spade bag also, in dark blue. the only thing I don't like about them is that you can't buy the internal pouches seperately (all the bags are basically the same, but they have different modular internal pouches that make one a laptop bag, or a "dad" bag (for diapers, etc). Still mine was really cheap and they're very nicely made.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

(Further funny aspect to the story: guy-I-hate is a fellow writing student, working on a novel that's very very sex-obsessed, in a very frat-boyish way, and it's partly about homosexuality, and so someone else I know tried to avoid writing it off as just boorish by overreading and theorizing that the main character was in fact coming to terms with his own homosexuality -- hence the aggressive opposite-direction coarseness. And then a month later the guy sits down on my bag and evidently leaks something semen-like all over it.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

well you can't really get much more man bag than that.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

He likes you, but he doesn't know how to tell you. Flowers seem too old fashioned. Say it with jizz!

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I carry a BOX!

Actually, an aluminum briefcase that prompts idiots to ask me if I have nuclear secrets, mob money, drugs, bombs etc in there.

Plusses - no one thinks it's a purse, it's pretty good at protecting its contents from shocks, moisture, etc.

Minuses - see above, also you have to set it down to open it, and it keeps one hand occupied unless you set it down.

― Austin (Austin), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Attach handcuffs to it, pls.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

stencil, did you order your muji bag from the states? i love their stuff.

― Magic City (ano ano), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

ex-gf got her ex-boss to pick it up either when he was in london or tokyo or something. i think they discontinued the model, unfortunately.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, an aluminum briefcase that prompts idiots to ask me if I have nuclear secrets, mob money, drugs, bombs etc in there.

you are walking around with a METAL ATTACHE like you're part of the Impossible Missions Force. What do you expect people to ask?

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I don't assue that because I've seen a bunch of movies where a guy stuffed a corpse in the trunk of a car that all car trunks have bodies in them.

But then, I'm not an idiot.

― Austin (Austin), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Five long years in a federal prison taught me to always assume there's a body in the trunk.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

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Chris just bought this one for his laptop

http://www.macheaven.co.uk/images/productimgs/200/2183.jpg

And this one for his camera and stuff

http://www.macheaven.co.uk/images/productimgs/200/1112.jpg

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 5 August 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

my secret h.s. shame-
http://www.turntablelab.com/accessories/bags/rawkus-bag.jpg

― 2, Friday, 5 August 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

my trolling on this thread is subwayne

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Friday, 5 August 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

I need a new one, but I can't imagine anything that will be better than my brown corduroy record bag. Maybe a blue corduroy record bag?

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it's official, I have the perfect bag, and I can't seem to find even a reference to anything similar online.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

i have a leather samsonite flap-over briefcase. it's not the greatest in the world, but it's pretty damn nice. ideally it would be more like my last briefcase, which had a big pocket with zipover and a little paperstash flat pocket, along with frontpockets for pens, etc. This one has the main compartment divided nearly down the middle, which makes it harder to carry ridiculously huge quantities of books, etc. Also, it's not expandable. The shoulderstrap makes it rilly as comfortable as any messenger bag if not moreso+more stylish+ actually better for organizing carrying lots of rectangular papers and books and etc. Also absurdly durable.

― Secundus Clover (s_clover), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

haha eth!

people, we have "two strap" technology now. try it, it's amazingly comfortable. and you won't be an asymmetrical laughingstock 15 years from now. trust me, i know.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 5 August 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

Whatever you do, Nabisco, make sure to transfer your buttons from the old bag to the new one. (Urban Outfitters sells a similar product to what you already own; however it is made by Levi's and I fear it is not exactly a record bag. I myself have been debating in investing in one of the curduroy affairs for the past year--I am always stymied however by the choice of color.)

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 6 August 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

Try this one maybe?

http://www.bodypunks.com/product.asp?name=6120CHV

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 6 August 2005 01:43 (twenty years ago)

josh, i also have a beat-up blue jansport regular backpack i use for particularly large loads, when i have an errand to do and don't want to empty my regular bag, etc.

the problem with this so-called "two strap" technology is if you have a big thing jutting from your back then you're always bumping into people or things or at risk (as noted) of getting somebody looking thru yr stuff without you realizing.

― Secundus Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 6 August 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

also i remember when "messenger bag" rilly only meant those odd-shaped actual messenger bags with the three colors (usually) and the funky straps and etc. Now it seems to mean any satchel with a flap at all. My briefcase is really a leather messenger bag!

― Secundus Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 6 August 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)

you know, i never noticed until tonight but...

http://www.comictrek.net/main/images/starwars_chewbacca_full.jpg

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 6 August 2005 04:03 (twenty years ago)

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― empire poker, Saturday, 6 August 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

wow, who knew there was such a connection between man bags and poker?

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 6 August 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

The poker is what hangs between the man bags.

― moley, Saturday, 6 August 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

Mary, mine is made by Levis! And may have been purchased at Urban Outfitters, though it's hard to remember -- it was like a full day bag search that led to this thing. I'll have to check again. I'm half-okay with the one you linked to, except that I like the actual record-sized cut of mine -- not only for the purpose of carrying records, but also because I like the perfect-square dimensions of the thing.

― nabiscothingy, Saturday, 6 August 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

http://www.spireusa.com/

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 6 August 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

I use a Dickies DJ bag for most purposes. It's nondescript so you can put your computer in a sleeve and then in the bag. Plus it holds about 27 12" records, which is good if you live in Southern California and are record shopping during the day (you can't just leave them in the car, they'll warp.)

http://www.yakpak.com/assets/catalog/parts/6168.jpg

― naus (Robert T), Sunday, 7 August 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

omg 2 you never told me!

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Sunday, 7 August 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

http://www.hogrockcafe.com/images/Testicles.jpg [nsfw]

― Man Bags, Sunday, 7 August 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

http://countryhomemade.com/Jewelry/purse/movie/wind/wind2.JPG

mmmm, manly.

― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Monday, 8 August 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

Speaking of Urban, maybe you you could try this one with the leather flap:

http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=8846&itemType=PRODUCT&iMainCat=222&iSubCat=223&iProductID=8846

Or the overpriced brown Lacoste messenger bag?

What exactly is the problem with your bag? It is getting holes? Maybe you should just patch it up.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 8 August 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

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― poker rules, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

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― payday loans, Friday, 12 August 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

It occurs to me that my absolute favorite thing about my current bag is that it has large external pockets. The top flops over like a messenger bag, but it has the usual zippered pocket in front; that's where the CD player goes. What's super-cool, though, is that the back side -- the against-your-torso side -- is a large, open pocket, and I tend to put more stuff in there than I put inside the bag itself. (Right now: assorted papers, one book, one magazine, a pack of gum, my work keycard, and three promo CDs.) I'm not sure I'd be able to handle having to actually lift up the front flap of a messenger bag -- which is kind of awkward to do while you're wearing the thing -- just so stash whatever magazine I was reading on the train.

― nabiscothingy, Friday, 19 August 2005 06:26 (twenty years ago)

now see if I closed this thread to unregistered users to block the spam, nabisco wouldn't be able to post!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cocotte-equip.com/Cocotte_Photos/ProdBIG-Fred_Degrade.jpg

― superultramega (superultramarinated), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cocotte-equip.com/Cocotte_Photos/ProdBIG-Fred_Degrade.jpg

― superultramega (superultramarinated), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Bah. sorry about that.

― superultramega (superultramarinated), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

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― Texas Holdem History, Friday, 19 August 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

suck a dick and your casino, fat guy.

― The King's English (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

rofl

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

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"wife commercial party poker"?

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

just a thought but has anyone tried copying this thread to another thread number?

the spambot seems to be targetting this particular URL

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

I could lock it, or lock it to unregistered posters if I wanted but I'm curious to see how much spam it gets.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

My (seemingly-irreplaceable) man-bag, in its natural, dark-and-blurry habitat:

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y257/nitsuh/Picture007.jpg

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

My (seemingly-irreplaceable) man-bag, in its natural, dark-and-blurry habitat:

my work server has blocked the image (from the description i'm thinking correctly)

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

[Spend your poker winnings on DIET PILLS!!! - a new twist!]

― diet pill that works, Friday, 2 September 2005 08:47 (twenty years ago)

due to spam, this thread now locked to unregistered users.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 5 September 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

18 months later:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1808518,00.html

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

Any good shops right in Central London, Notting Hill or preferably round Greenwich.

Yes I've been putting off actually replacing my (10+ year-old) black puma bag despite being on one strap for six months (not that it matters as I'm looking for a satchel or shoulder or er..I'm lost already) but now the hole is getting bigger and bigger so I'm just using trying to fit books/whatever else in side-pockets and the extra pocket.

Anywhere with a good selection would be good.

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

seven years pass...

Anyone got any of these:

http://www.homeofmillican.com/shop.html/

A well made "investment" or silly money for a bag that a pen is going to leak in or something?

― djh, Saturday, 11 January 2014 11:24 (twelve years ago)

I inherently mistrust any bags with names, regardless of the gender, so my opinion of those bags is coloured by that.

However, I just have to say that at the British Museum, earlier this week, I saw Harris tweed man-bags which reduced me to a state of abject man-bag lust. They were roomy, too, enough to carry an A4 sketchbook, which is the only complaint I have about my otherwise perfect canvas satchel.

― Branwell Bell, Saturday, 11 January 2014 11:56 (twelve years ago)

Those stupid bags are the most pretentious, overpriced thing I've seen in ages. A pox on them. THEY'RE NOT EVEN LEATHER.

― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Saturday, 11 January 2014 13:12 (twelve years ago)

six months pass...

Still need to find a man bag. Recommendations 2014?

― djh, Monday, 14 July 2014 20:07 (eleven years ago)

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/12/05/article-2518642-19DC9EF900000578-759_634x429.jpg

― Euler, Monday, 14 July 2014 20:09 (eleven years ago)

yeah OK Euler we get it, you posted the same pic on the dedicated messenger bag thread

I got a Jack Spade Waxwear Computer Field Bag for cheap on eBay which is great

― goth colouring book (anagram), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 06:35 (eleven years ago)

http://www.brenthaven.com/sites/default/files/collins-vertical_mb_hero-chambray-w.png

― saer, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 06:57 (eleven years ago)

nuts I got caught

― Euler, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 08:02 (eleven years ago)

eleven years pass...

Pondering a new bag. Quite fancy this

https://pajotten.com/products/new-bag-navy?se_activity_id=195997270398&syclid=d2qol18oirjs738rbdo0&utm_campaign=It%27s+time%21_195997270398&utm_medium=email&utm_source=shopify_email

... though it's probably more than I want to spend.

Any other suggestions? Sort of for holiday, to carry enough stuff for a day. (Cagoul, bottle of water, book, few other bits).

― djh, Monday, 1 September 2025 12:11 (nine months ago)

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