Michael Markey
Veteran
Pockets for me with maybe a Mju slung around my neck or a GRD.
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
At B&H a jerk at the door wanted me to put my Louie with a Leica into the bag check.
I had a rather big hussy fit and pitched a bitch: I said. "You wouldn't ask a woman to put her pocketbook into the bag check."
I then kinda blew him off and walked in acting all entitled.
Cal
dave lackey
Veteran
+1.... Bravo!
Wish I had a Louie! But the bag of the day is gonna stay on MY shoulder, too!
paulfish4570
Veteran
^ ........
As I always say, Cal's the poorest rich man I know.
Cal, you usually don't have that type of attitude. I'm happy to see it.
Duane Pandorf
Well-known
BBB-E and Billingham Leica Combination bag for me. I've been using the BBB the most.
daveleo
what?
Just the opposite. I think that guys who agonize over other guys carrying bags are the "diminished manhood" lot - too too confused and worried about "manhood". Maybe they "doth complain too much"
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Exposing since 1969.
I use a Chrome Mini Metro messenger bag that my husband gave me years ago. It has a big compartment for my MacBook Pro and smaller compartments for other things like my photo hard drive, a lens or two, lens cleaning supplies, a flashlight and my EpiPen (I’m allergic to bee stings). I have it every weekday, but if I am out shooting I use one of my medium or small Domke bags.
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
As I always say, Cal's the poorest rich man I know.
John really knows me well. LOL.
Anyways unless I am wearing cargo pants I'm forced to carry a bag for all the film that is required when I go out shooting with John. Perhaps I carry 10 rolls of 135, or 20 rolls of 120 at a time. Also know that those tight Paul Smith jeans have no room for film.
Anyways the Louie goes with us to the South Bronx and can be seen in my neighborhood, "Spanish Harlem."
Cal
Rvl
Member
I have a trunk full of man bags
Vuitton , Coach , Dunhill , Hunting World , Polo and right now my favorites are Porter
And I have another trunk filled with wallets
Vuitton , Coach , Dunhill , Hunting World , Polo and right now my favorites are Porter
And I have another trunk filled with wallets
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
If anyone wants to do a search at Louis Vuitton, my bag is a "Shawnee MM" and is part of the "Utah" collection. My bag measures 3.54"x13.39"x 12.6; is made of amazingly soft dyed cowhide; and my color is "Basulte."
In my Avatar the diagonal strap is from my Louie.
Another nice bag is the slightly larger "Wichita" also from the "Utah" collection. This will likely be my next bag.
BTW I used inserts from Domke to partition my bag.
Cal
In my Avatar the diagonal strap is from my Louie.
Another nice bag is the slightly larger "Wichita" also from the "Utah" collection. This will likely be my next bag.
BTW I used inserts from Domke to partition my bag.
Cal
Sparrow
Veteran
... Vuitton is the only to go, Gaultier is just a disaster co-ordinated with almost any vest ... next springs D&G excepted, obviously ... I just wish someone would do a half decent camera holster, it's just so embarrassing to be seen with one with that american colonial vibe ... isn't it?
Sparrow
Veteran
Just the opposite. I think that guys who agonize over other guys carrying bags are the "diminished manhood" lot - too too confused and worried about "manhood". Maybe they "doth complain too much"
... they do a pill now ... apparently ... although I still don't expect one can get it over the counter
kuzano
Veteran
Aah Yess....
Aah Yess....
You could be onto something. Much like those who rank Hummer Drivers in the notable "envy" category. Hey, maybe the guy just likes to drive a big, ugly, military style, rock crusher.
So you're saying that perhaps all these people who like man bags, simply like the utility afforded by one. Interesting consideration.
Aah Yess....
Just the opposite. I think that guys who agonize over other guys carrying bags are the "diminished manhood" lot - too too confused and worried about "manhood". Maybe they "doth complain too much"
You could be onto something. Much like those who rank Hummer Drivers in the notable "envy" category. Hey, maybe the guy just likes to drive a big, ugly, military style, rock crusher.
So you're saying that perhaps all these people who like man bags, simply like the utility afforded by one. Interesting consideration.
majid
Fazal Majid
Hermès, more likely. If you want an excruciatingly informative look at premium men's bags, try this thread on StyleForum (163 pages and counting):
http://www.styleforum.net/t/115841/the-definitive-manbag-thread-post-feedback-brands-here/
majid
Fazal Majid
Just the opposite. I think that guys who agonize over other guys carrying bags are the "diminished manhood" lot - too too confused and worried about "manhood". Maybe they "doth complain too much"
That phenomenon seems to be specific to Americans. Possibly a legacy of dodging the attentions of homophobic schoolyard bullies. The fact the US is more car-centric than elsewhere probably also has something to do with it.
Chinese men can't have enough bags, the more expensive, the better, as they are status symbols, to the glee of luxury goods makers (bags make up 50% of the profits of that industry).
Most fashion accessory bags are not up to carrying a Leica M with a passel of lenses, however, let alone a DSLR.
Sparrow
Veteran
... personally, I've always wondered about those Land-Rover drivers toting quite suspiciously martial Billinghams ... bit odd in my book
Cal, is he speaking of you?
dave lackey
Veteran
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
John,
I don't know. As you know I have a very confused identity: I often think of myself as being a white boy trapped in an Asian body, LOL, but both of my parents were Cantonese, (For those of you who don't know Chinese culture, when China was first unified, Canton remained as an ungovernable area and separate from China for over 900 years. Surrounded by a ring of mountains Canton remained a rugged feudal region that remained restless like the sea). I think Cantonese are very different than Chinese in the same manner that New Yorkers are different than other Americans.
Because of my breeding (inbreeding) in a way I think of myself as being like a pit bull, meaning breed for violence and fighting. Cantonese history supports this. Also know that my grandfather was exacuted in China for murdering a loan shark that burned down his business and ruined him. My grandfather was a gambler, and it cost him his life.
Know that my father was only a boy of 13 and the eldest boy in his family. He took care of his mother and six or seven younger siblings because this was his duty. My father grew up to be more or less an illiterate thug who one day jumped ship in New York Harbor around the time of the Great Depression.
Know that my father, an illegal immigrant, was only one of only1,428 Chinese allowed to become a naturalized American in 1943 because he was in the U.S. Army in WWII, by 1952 the Korean war had begun and historically the Chinese were looked upon as "the enemy" once again. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was overall still in effect, but my father somehow found a loophole that allowed him to become legal, allowed him to get a wife because the exclusion laws made Chinatowns into mostly bachelor communities where men outnumbered women thirty to one.
My mother was an educated woman from Hong Kong, and I imagine she came from a very wealthy family, as it is hard to explain why a woman would be educated in those times, and I like to think that I come from a long line of "Banksters," and realize that Hong Kong is a lot like NYC with a remarkable similar geography.
Know that somewhere in this story my father shot a man and went to jail for a while, and know that during the time of the Vietnam War in the "Lilly White" suburbs of Lawn-Guy-Land the first thing I learned in school is how to fight.
I identify myself as Cantonese, part tough thug, part Bankster, part Pit Bull who happens to be a New Yorker.
Cal