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With a (photo)murse, you can always get a nice, plastic-bottled kids-maltbeer, mineral-water or such stuff with you, like the ladies do in their "Labello-freighters".
That's not very PC of you but I respect your opinion.
Just to be clear I let my back hair grow out like a jungle. Ain't no one going to tell me to shave it !
If I need a bag that is exactly what I do. I have had these small saddle bags since I was a kid & they hang nicely over my shoulder. Old, stiff with some broken lacing but they have served me well. I have a matching saddlehorn bag that stays on the floor shift of my old truck & rides on the transmission hump. It really is a possibles bag. Somewhere thru the yrs I have lost the cantle bag to the set.The manliest way ever would be to carry a leather saddle bag over your shoulder.
Pair with a Stetson for maximum effect.
No Murses please! With 2 to 4 pockets in my jackets and 4 pockets in my pants, I don't need a purse. Remember when men had an air (aire) of respect and wouldn't be caught dead carrying a purse? What about a nice backpack if you have too much to carry? If you are carrying a laptop bag without a laptop in it, I'm sorry but you got a purse. Make sure you have something heavy in it so you can swing it at purse snatchers to ward them off Nancy
A cool bag used for it's purpose is one thing, but a carry all shoulder bag for your stuff is just a purse. No matter what you call it.
Interesting. I carry all my stuff in a shoulder bag everyday. I dislike backpacks. I love a shoulder bag. As someone who hates to drive, I travel everywhere on foot or by bus so I need to carry my umbrella, iPad, notes, sunglasses, books and hat. Pockets are useless and I don't generally use them.
When I finally got to undergrad at 28, I bought my first backpack (rucksack). I always thought it a nuisance to use both straps when just walking around campus. However, when riding my bicycle using both shoulder straps (and the chest strap) were essential.I have 4 bags that I use regularly and never felt remotely unmanly. I keep meaning to post a pic.
I much prefer messenger-type bags to rucksacks as they're designed for one shoulder, whereas rucksacks always feel awkward to me when using only one strap.
You should see the bonespurs in my shoulders from decades of schlepping bags with shoulder straps through airports, into and out of cabs, down the street, on the bus, escalators, trains, elevators. But, would I trade for one of those silly, drag behind you, rolling bags Nope!You should see the muscles in my right arm from carrying around those Norton Anthologies in my Coach Messenger bag.. Chaucer alone will do that to you. GRRR.
Oh man, I'm looking around in the online-shops of my favorite clothing-chain stores in my nearby-towns and the ladies-sections got soooo nice fieldjacket-styled handbags, with practical long-straps like on photo-bags, 73 cm from shoulder to bag!