Leather handbags for men
But despite the fact the average- bloke-on-the-street wouldn’t risk being beaten to a pulp sporting a designer leather handbag, men have been carrying leather handbags for centuries. In fact, the first recorded bags were only carried by men. Egyptian hieroglyphics show pouches looped around Egyptian men’s waists that were used to carry precious items. So it was the male of the species that pre-dated leather handbags becoming the essential female accessory in the 21st Century. Men also carried leather handbags with pride in the 17th Century – perhaps the man bag never really disappeared – it just took on masculine disguises morphing into the rucksack or satchel.
The emergence of leather handbags for men
Now there are dedicated lines of major leather handbag brands aimed solely at men, and there are even dedicated websites selling man bags. Perhaps, like the Egyptian men who carried tools or weapons in their bags, today’s men have their own valuables they can’t live without – mobile phones, iPods, MP3 players, and of course the usual wallet and keys that just won’t fit into a trouser pocket. The laws of physics means men with gadgets need their own handbags. But because these are for men, you can be assured these bags will be made of leather and look nothing like women’s leather handbags.
Leather handbags and the man bag
The male equivalent of a leather handbag however has hit headlines all over the world such as The New Statesman article, “Dress code: Bags of masculinity” or Australia’s The Age: “When carrying a bag is manly”.
Leather handbags back in vogue
Everybody knows fashion always comes back round - and round again. The seventies were big in the nineties and the eighties are said to be back in 2007 - which might explain why man bags have finally returned to the fashion scene. Even if they were last seen on the Egyptians in 3000 BC.
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