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    IHE-36 - Small Shoulder Bag - 12oz Wabash - Indigo or Black

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    • mclaincauseyM
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      Hey people have their hangups and that’s not really our business if they can’t let them go. Can always go backpack or messenger bag if this form factor isn’t something you can wear confidently.

      I have some baggage around baggage myself: I’ll never wear a fanny pack outside of technical applications like mountain biking. It’s not tied to masculinity, I just think they look like something a del Boca Vista resident would wear. I won’t pretend my agist hangup is somehow better than one on masculinity, but I’ll own it.

      Think it, be it.

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      • S
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        I feel like everyone has already said everything there is to say about wearing what works for YOU [mention]BrianA [/mention]

        I just wanted to chime in and point out that what your brother-in-law and other people may say about men with bags and the like are very old-fashioned views on fashion and masculinity. Modern men are better off ignoring them and allowing their sons to move forward with a more inclusive and complete version of what it means to be a man. Including carrying bags if they need/want them, and even (gasp!) showing their feelings.

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        • goosehdG
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          @sabergirl What are these feelings that you speak of?  Do you mean like eating ice cream too fast or having to pee really bad?  😃

          "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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          • ARNCA
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            @neph93:

            @goosehd:

            like pinks shirts

            Oof… steady on there.

            Maybe @goosehd is just tapping into the old ways - “As a shade of red, pink shared its connotations of vigour and was worn freely by fashionable men”. Or in our context, perhaps pink = red + evo. The early 20th century got a lot wrong - stealing pink from guys is way down the list!

            https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/in-the-pink-colour-in-menswear

            “Every day that you survive you get a free sunset“

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            • goosehdG
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              @ARNC Great article!  Thanks for sharing 🙂

              "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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              • ARNCA
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                @goosehd:

                @ARNC Great article!  Thanks for sharing 🙂

                No problem. I was at the exhibition last Saturday so it was still fresh in my mind.

                “Every day that you survive you get a free sunset“

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                • mclaincauseyM
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                  @sabergirl:

                  Modern men are better off ignoring them and allowing their sons to move forward with a more inclusive and complete version of what it means to be a man.

                  Exactly. Getting hung up on what we think others expect of our gender is a trap, even sort of ironically (if harmlessly) demonstrated in this thread when a couple of us who wear this bag asserted facts about their lives in defense of their masculinity.

                  I think we are better focused on what it means to be a good and happy human being than on conforming to external expectations of any sort, be they around gender, race, creed, sexuality, nationality, etc.

                  Ha. Look what we did to this poor thread about a bag.

                  Think it, be it.

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                  • AnesthetistA
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                    The ONLY thing keeping me from buying this bag is I need more space for my things. I’ve long carried a bag and although I’ve gotten shit over it (being a male nurse didnt help but so I digress) no F’s given here.

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                    • GilesG
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                      I actually do have something more to say.

                      If my brother-in-law did not like what I wore, I would take that as probably the most positive affirmation that I had got it 100% right…......

                      "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                      • endoE
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                        I recently read that some eastern-european machos think of our free Europe, with all it‘s different ways of life, love and respect for every human being (well ideally), as Gayrope , thereby expressing their view how decayed we all are here.

                        In this sense I‘m proud to be gayropean.  🙂

                        si tacuisses

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                        • goosehdG
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                          …I want to leave this thread but it really hit on a nerve.  How many people have been harmed because of this backwards mentality over the decades prior and still prominent in some circles.  Men, Women, Girls, Boys all feeling guilty, bullied, harassed, and harmed because they didn't fit the definitions that others thought were right.

                          People have been killed either directly or indirectly (suicide) because of this neanderthalic thinking and I wish it would stop...

                          "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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                          • MattM
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                            My brother would probably make fun of it. He spent most of his 20’s playing video games in my mom’s basement shirtless surrounded by cat turds, cigarette butts and empty Mountain Dew bottles.  Then he joined the army, knocked up a surly stripper and now he’s a cable guy.

                            So….  😎

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                            • endoE
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                              @ARNC:

                              pink = red + evo. The early 20th century got a lot wrong - stealing pink from guys is way down the list!

                              https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/in-the-pink-colour-in-menswear

                              btw very interesting article @ARNC  V&A is always such an inspiration.

                              si tacuisses

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                              • neph93N
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                                @Matt:

                                My brother would probably make fun of it. He spent most of his 20’s playing video games in my mom’s basement shirtless surrounded by cat turds, cigarette butts and empty Mountain Dew bottles.  Then he joined the army, knocked up a surly stripper and now he’s a cable guy.

                                So….  😎

                                I was looking forward to you getting out of bed and making a contribution to this discission and you did not disappoint. So many questions…

                                Also, it feels like you two could be in an Affleck/Damon movie.

                                «Stevie Heighway on the wing!
                                We had dreams, and songs to sing…»

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                                • ARNCA
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                                  @endo:

                                  @ARNC:

                                  pink = red + evo. The early 20th century got a lot wrong - stealing pink from guys is way down the list!

                                  https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/in-the-pink-colour-in-menswear

                                  btw very interesting article @ARNC  V&A is always such an inspiration.

                                  Thanks @endo. It’s probably my favourite indoor place.

                                  “Every day that you survive you get a free sunset“

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                                  • MattM
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                                    Well I saw that Ann posted so I figured it was either about corduroys or social injustice.  Either way I wanted in on it.

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                                      @Matt:

                                      Well I saw that Ann posted so I figured it was either about corduroys or social injustice.  Either way I wanted in on it.

                                      ROFL [emoji1787]

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                                      • ROmanR
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                                        FWIW I had the Denim version at the ANNI party.

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                                          Just bought this bag. Looks great and will come well in handy for smaller gear such as sunglasses, keys, tobacco, perhaps a (water) bottle and various bric-a-brac, knick-knacks and such. Does it look like a womens bag? Perhaps, but it’s all about guts and courage on how to pull it off. I’ll double it up with a wabash western just cause I think it will look the business. 😄👍🏽

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                                          • flannel slutF
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                                            Know that you have one badass shoulder bag and feck all the rest. Rock that shiv w your chin up and chest out

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