For the first time in 6 years a new handbag.

Six years ago my aunt sent me a handbag from Germany to use. It has served my purposes very well,
though the time has come for a new one. The poor bag is filthy, stained, scratched up, and is missing the pull for the main compartment. As I have upgraded my main pen and pencil, courtesy of our own furry-arsed mustelid, I have chosen to upgrade that as well. I have placed the order for it and hope to receive it before the end of my spring holiday.

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Author: Christopher-Dorset

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27 thoughts on “For the first time in 6 years a new handbag.”

  1. Er…. handbag? Personally I prefer the usual macho-style animal skin wallet taken by hand from the back of an NT gator but … if such is your choice … 😦

    🙂

  2. I came across the use of a ‘handbag’ when working with a disparate group of engineers (mostly from Northern Europe’. The main handbag carriers were from The Netherlands. Difficult one this; occassionaly carrying a ‘handbag’ can be useful, my solution was to get a small camera case, which I refer as “A handbag”!

  5. I thoroughly approve of men carrying handbags, even if they prefer to call it a camera case. That way my shoulder doesn’t ache from carrying a wallet, car keys, and all the other junk that I really don’t have room for in my shoulder bag…

    🙂

  6. I have a man bag. It’s really what we used to call a satchel, but a manbag it is. I only use it for work though, butty box, banana, glasses and assorted junk that I would probably keep in a Tescos bag otherwise.

    On you go Christopher, and thank you for referring to my humble offerings as an ‘upgrade’. 🙂

  8. I don’t have a handbag or satchel, but I do use a small rucksack occasionally. I wear Cargo Trousers which have lots of pockets (some zipped) in which to stow small items. Sometimes I manage to get my mobile phone out before it stops ringing.

  9. Before I moved to Australia, I always carried a handbag on my frequent European trips. At the time (in the 80s), most of the French and German guys that I worked with carried one. Just about big enough for passport, tickets and a few other essentials.

    Had to change my ways after I emigrated. 😦

  10. Bearsy :

    Had to change my ways after I emigrated. :-(

    I should say so!!

    “Man carries bag always few stubbies short of a small pack” – Old Gurunjunga Tribe saying 😦

  11. I got something very to similar to this last year to use on a holiday to South Africa. It was very useful for carrying cameras and other bits and pieces. I didn’t feel like a poof either. 🙂

  12. Not a fan of ‘Man Bags,’ I’ve only ever known one bloke who could carry it off and that was my best mate who died far to young last year. He was always immaculate no matter what the task or the occasion, he wore his clothes like he had been poured into them and style was his middle name.
    Me? If I have to carry anything like a camera or an iPad I prefer the rugged grandeur of a small, natty rucksack slung over one shoulder with a disdainful air of nonchalance.

  15. Donald: I am rather more cautious, and far away from NT, to be able to do that. Thus, I simply order one. In this case from a shop in Japan.

    Bearsy: I never carried one before, but I always found myself lacking pens, paper, and a calculator. That is why I began carrying one. In California, even rural California, there is not much of a stigma attached to it so long as the colours are mute and the design simple.

    Ferret: some call it a man bag, some call it a murse, I call it a handbag because the thing is the thing.

    PB: most of my social look and act sort of like this:

    The fashion and all. In comparison I am virtually a young Clint Eastwood as well as about twice the size. (No, not that fat, just taller and somewhat fuller-framed)

  16. Perhaps heterodoxically (wooooh!) Scandinavian Man favours the manbag – especially of he’s a mediaman or wears a shaggy beard. Not suitable for sportsman or aged immigrant grandfather.

  17. Man bags – good idea, useful, practical and incredibly laughed at by other men in the UK who aren’t in touch with their inner feminine side!

    I always have one when I travel overseas, but am too much of a wimp to carry one around in England as I’m too insecure not be to laughed at by the aforementioned men! As a gentleman who will always carry everything for my wife, I just ensure I have big pockets!

    I have to say the current fashion of men carrying satchels grates with me as they always wear the strap across their body rather than jauntily over one shoulder – a sin from my school days!
    Well done Christopher – it is the European in you! 😀

  19. Finding exactly the right one is a problem for either sex… not too big, not too small. The right colour….

  23. christophertrier :

    Donald: I am rather more cautious, and far away from NT, to be able to do that. Thus, I simply order one. In this case from a shop in Japan.

    Come on, Chris, it doesn’t take much to crawl through a snake infested swamp in order to find a suitable croc. 😦

    🙂

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