One of my pet peeves;
Call them what you want, Messenger Bag, Waist bags, Cross body bags, etc……………….Face it, they are Man Bags > purses.
Nothing wrong with that, other than the funny names we give for things that are not what we say they are.
But to your example, it looks like a nice man bag.
May have to get one and get down with the sickness.
I got sick’n’tired of carrying 38lbs of crap stuffed into all my pockets, and taking 25min to transfer them from jeans to shorts or verse-vica.
Phones, house-keys, car-keys, papieren, cash, change, light(s), knife, lighter, RFID doodad to get in at work, key to the can, metrocard, pens, then throw in nice-to-haves like charging cables, small powerbank, flash-thingy, earbugs, lots of little crap and craplets, and it all adds up. I’d have to wear cargo pants and walk around like I had huge inoperable tumors on my thighs and ass.
Add multiple lights, lighter, bottle-opener, multitool, etc., and forget it.
Even in that small bag, yesterday I got 2 teeshirts from Amazon delivered at work, and both fit into that slingbag! And that’s with the waist-bag that I carry my phones and chargers inside the bag instead of molled on the outside. It’s like a freaking TARDIS.
So now, I carry minimal stuff on me, and only in my front pockets. Everything else goes into the murse.
Funny, ’cause it wasn’t all that many years ago that you could spot a European (as in just off the boat) because they were the only ones carrying murses. Usually rectangular and leather, not quite a messenger bag but similar. I said even back then that they had the right idea. Chrissakes, I even had about 5lbs of keys hanging on a dog-chain hooked to my belt. Only place it’d fit, ’cause all that metal wasn’t gonna fit into any of my pockets.
So now, instead of spending said 25min doing cargo-transfer, I just grab my bag and go. My pir8 patch makes it look kewl.
Oh, and when I take the buses to work vs driving in, I stop at the transfer point and get some of those free papers (3 each). Mainly for the puzzles, but I read ’em cover to cover, too. Daily are the AM New York and Metro, and weekly is the Chronicle. Folded over, those fit into the open pocket that’s on the back of the bag. Otherwise, I’d have to hold all those papers loose (even in the rain), or stick ’em in a plastic shopping-bag and carry ’em separately. One more separate thing to carry? No thanks.
That’s why I started with my “parachute”, the Jansport, that I could stuff a small car in there and carry it home. Never had to worry about dropping anything when walking, etc. Everything was stuffed into one place.