What's up with the small backpacks?

2013-01-15

Remember in the mid to late 90s when small backpacks were all the rage for women? Well, now they are all the rage for men in Japan apparently.

Honestly I don't know how popular they are but shopping around Tokyo in 2012 every men's store seemed to have tons of them. The crazy thing to me is they seemed too small to be all that useful. I suppose you could put a Nexus 7, Kindle or iPad Mini inside but you can't carry much else. What do they put in them? Point and Shoot camera? A single novel? I'm sure some Japanese men's magazine would spell this all out for me but I didn't have time to check.

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Men's Coin Purses? Yes Please!

2013-01-09

I have no idea why but for some reason there are no men's coin purses in the USA or at least on San Francisco. Go to Macy's or Nordstrom's or Bloomingdale's and you won't find a single one. This is despite the fact that they carry many of the same brands of clothing and accessories (Paul Smith, Burberry, etc..)

At some point, partly due to the humidity in Japan, I got tired of having a pocket full of lose change that I had to rummage through to find coins so I picked up a coin purse. I'm not going back.

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Where's the Shoes?

2013-01-06

Where are the shoes? I should have taken more pictures but when I visit Japan my consumerism is on full impulse power and I'm especially jealous of all the cool shoes available to Japanese men.

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