Can a hip bag ever be a hip bag? I can’t help but raise the question since they keep showing up. Years peacefully pass and then, oh! There’s another fanny pack, I mean hip bag.
My first hip bag was a navy nylon number I wore while trudging through Europe with a backpack and Eurail pass. It was a safe spot for my passport, but try making a quick, sanitary stop in a public restroom with one of those clamped around your waist.
Then Gucci came out with one a few years back and cleverly called it their “belt bag”. I spotted quite a few around town – then poof, they were gone.
But here they are again, this time in a practical, clever version at Etsy. Australia-based Happy Cow makes hip bags in all shapes and sizes using leftover leather scraps sourced from furniture manufacturers.
Check out the Waist Pack ($60) with plenty of pockets for all your stuff. It’s not just for traveling. The Hip Bag ($70) is the latest, greatest version from Happy Cow. It fits through normal pant belt loops (for guys), or loose around the waist (for girls). Might I go out on a limb and consider it somewhat stylish?
I need to hear from you, my fellow fashionistas, to decide once and for all. It’s helpful, but is it hot?
Just don’t call it a fanny pack.
– via Design Milk
Well, the one pictured at the top is pretty cool, in a carpenter chic kind of way.
I agree Sara, it’s cool. But I see riding on a vespa through Rome rather than carpenter 🙂
The way the first model is wearing it should be the way to wear it: low on the hips. Any higher would be a classic fanny pack. I may get one due to the fact I have to use a cane and it would be nice to have one hand free, but I would really have to be careful how I wear it and what I wear it with!
Maybe they should make them waterproof if they fall in the toilet when you forget you’re wearing one?
At the very least a quick release button.
I’m not a huge fan, but the current fashions DO look cooler than a fanny pack would!!
I think in Europe I’d feel more comfortable wearing it for some reason. But agreed, it does look better low around the hips….
I’d like something for my keys etc when I go running.
I still laugh whenever I hear the word “fanny pack”. In Australia we call it a “bum bag”. A “fanny” is quite different to a “bum” in Australian/UK usage. (Look it up coz I ain’t gonna say!)