Ooof, noooo yung spyplane, you're going down the generic menswear youtuber path!!!
Whether or not a backpack is a vibe depends entirely on the most important thing of all... context!
If you show us some dudes in business attire and slap on a backpack that is bound to look silly because it doesn't fit in with that uniform.
Now try slapping on a crossbody bag on a skater and... that looks silly because it doesn't fit with THAT uniform.
Also look at all the streetstyle kings in Japan that all wear backpacks all the time...
I loved you for your reco on the racing atelier backpack, copped that, rocking it regularly and getting compliments for that bad boy regularly... as a grown a**-man!
(Off topic: if you are looking to sell the visvim backpack hit me up brother, because I destroyed mine with prolonged use and need a new one.)
Pants-- do high waisted tailored men’s pants exist for ~$140? Everything is $250 of from (🤢) Shein. Asking for husband who desperately needs pants but can’t/won’t drop over ~$150 pair.
I am with you on double rider leather jackets. You showed me a bold new future without no-show socks that I'm forever grateful for. 🙏 I'm sorry mighty Spyplane, I can't get with this backpack throw down.
I very much question a universal fashion *rule* that's a no for men but a yes for women. That's heading down a heteronormative and gender binary path that I'm not vibing with.
My brothers in Christ, the answer to this to backpack or to not backpack is the Telfar Shopping bag, medium or Large. You can sling it like a messenger or carry it like a briefcase. And it looks killer dressed up or down.
Came to this realization recently as I put my waterproof roll top backpack on over this amazing vintage wool overcoat. That Little Timmy feeling was instantly wiped away on my commute when I found myself inevitably trapped behind someone in a startup-embroidered Timbuck2- the slowest walkers in town.
Can’t believe the time has come but I actually disagree with you on something! To be clear, I’m not asking for a “permission slip” to wear a backpack like some of those in the other comments; I simply dispute the Little Timmy Quotient…or at least its universal application.
Backpacks are standard gear for mountaineers, outdoorsmen, special forces guys, and adventurers of all stripes—and now you are telling me we are free to borrow their sauce when it comes to cargo pants, hiking boots, or a three layer gore shell…but a special exemption exists for portage? I don’t buy it! I think, as with any of the aforementioned items, that would come down to the wearer and his ability to rock it, and that its functional utility would ultimately add to its coolness.
A good technical pack (I do agree that fashion backpacks are an abomination), worn properly (not sagging and sloppy like in the pictures) by the right person (not like the cleverly chosen dorks in the pictures) is as likely to make you look like a soldier or an alpinist as it is a hapless child. Wearing velcro Keds while drinking from a little red sippy cup might make you look like you’re in grade school; that doesn’t mean that all sneakers, even some silvery OG Wave Rider 10s, make you look like you’re in grade school—that would just be a sampling bias.
As for evidence; here’s a picture of style lord Chris Gentile from Pilgrim Surf + Supply looking (IMHO) like a full badass in a backpack (https://ibb.co/n0Y5F2j)
I’m going to go even farther out on this limb here and suggest that maybe *you* don’t actually look like Little Timmy in your dope Visvim pack, and once freed from your preconceptions about this noble workhorse of a sack, may come to embrace it once more…or more appropriately, let it embrace you.
I’m willing to sacrifice my “grown-a** man” card to happily continue to wear a backpack, Casio Illuminator watch, and tie a jacket around my waist by the sleeves. I may grab a Capri-Sun while I’m at it.
Backpacks look dumb on everybody, not just men. I think I stopped wearing one when a little girl on my block stopped me to ask why I have to go to school as a grown up. But it’s definitely the tech-bro “optimized” grayscale ones that look the worst. My everyday bag is arguably a backpack I guess - crossbody Carhartt that I wanted to be large enough to fit my big U Lock and a book and notebook. The essentials, you see. I find what makes it feel a lot less dorky than a normal backpack is that I can access things in it without taking it off. I just slide it around. Much more graceful
The worst offender of this category is actually the drawstring bag!!!
King, would you please bless me with the sauce on the chore coat & belt in the Grandpa Spyplane fit?
Ooof, noooo yung spyplane, you're going down the generic menswear youtuber path!!!
Whether or not a backpack is a vibe depends entirely on the most important thing of all... context!
If you show us some dudes in business attire and slap on a backpack that is bound to look silly because it doesn't fit in with that uniform.
Now try slapping on a crossbody bag on a skater and... that looks silly because it doesn't fit with THAT uniform.
Also look at all the streetstyle kings in Japan that all wear backpacks all the time...
I loved you for your reco on the racing atelier backpack, copped that, rocking it regularly and getting compliments for that bad boy regularly... as a grown a**-man!
(Off topic: if you are looking to sell the visvim backpack hit me up brother, because I destroyed mine with prolonged use and need a new one.)
Pants-- do high waisted tailored men’s pants exist for ~$140? Everything is $250 of from (🤢) Shein. Asking for husband who desperately needs pants but can’t/won’t drop over ~$150 pair.
You'll have to peel my backpack off my cold, dead body (as a paramedic discovered when she offered to cut it off my warm, broken body).
My FAPint is: baggy jeans, ya cuff; in between jeans you get hemmed; and stack that shit when skinnies.
I am with you on double rider leather jackets. You showed me a bold new future without no-show socks that I'm forever grateful for. 🙏 I'm sorry mighty Spyplane, I can't get with this backpack throw down.
I very much question a universal fashion *rule* that's a no for men but a yes for women. That's heading down a heteronormative and gender binary path that I'm not vibing with.
✌️🖤☯️
My brothers in Christ, the answer to this to backpack or to not backpack is the Telfar Shopping bag, medium or Large. You can sling it like a messenger or carry it like a briefcase. And it looks killer dressed up or down.
Came to this realization recently as I put my waterproof roll top backpack on over this amazing vintage wool overcoat. That Little Timmy feeling was instantly wiped away on my commute when I found myself inevitably trapped behind someone in a startup-embroidered Timbuck2- the slowest walkers in town.
Can’t believe the time has come but I actually disagree with you on something! To be clear, I’m not asking for a “permission slip” to wear a backpack like some of those in the other comments; I simply dispute the Little Timmy Quotient…or at least its universal application.
Backpacks are standard gear for mountaineers, outdoorsmen, special forces guys, and adventurers of all stripes—and now you are telling me we are free to borrow their sauce when it comes to cargo pants, hiking boots, or a three layer gore shell…but a special exemption exists for portage? I don’t buy it! I think, as with any of the aforementioned items, that would come down to the wearer and his ability to rock it, and that its functional utility would ultimately add to its coolness.
A good technical pack (I do agree that fashion backpacks are an abomination), worn properly (not sagging and sloppy like in the pictures) by the right person (not like the cleverly chosen dorks in the pictures) is as likely to make you look like a soldier or an alpinist as it is a hapless child. Wearing velcro Keds while drinking from a little red sippy cup might make you look like you’re in grade school; that doesn’t mean that all sneakers, even some silvery OG Wave Rider 10s, make you look like you’re in grade school—that would just be a sampling bias.
As for evidence; here’s a picture of style lord Chris Gentile from Pilgrim Surf + Supply looking (IMHO) like a full badass in a backpack (https://ibb.co/n0Y5F2j)
I’m going to go even farther out on this limb here and suggest that maybe *you* don’t actually look like Little Timmy in your dope Visvim pack, and once freed from your preconceptions about this noble workhorse of a sack, may come to embrace it once more…or more appropriately, let it embrace you.
1) You should always dance. Life's always better when you dance.
2) For me, the worst backpack combo is with a suit. It damages the jacket. And it just messes with the outline
3) I love wearing my "mochila"
https://lulocolombia.travel/blog/mochila-bag-treasure-colombian-indigenous-tradition/
I’m willing to sacrifice my “grown-a** man” card to happily continue to wear a backpack, Casio Illuminator watch, and tie a jacket around my waist by the sleeves. I may grab a Capri-Sun while I’m at it.
While I hear ya, I won’t travel without my black ember: https://blackember.com/products/forge
I do always drop it at the hotel asap tho - because I agree, backpacks look ridiculous no matter what.
Backpacks look dumb on everybody, not just men. I think I stopped wearing one when a little girl on my block stopped me to ask why I have to go to school as a grown up. But it’s definitely the tech-bro “optimized” grayscale ones that look the worst. My everyday bag is arguably a backpack I guess - crossbody Carhartt that I wanted to be large enough to fit my big U Lock and a book and notebook. The essentials, you see. I find what makes it feel a lot less dorky than a normal backpack is that I can access things in it without taking it off. I just slide it around. Much more graceful
Another great take, and a further double-down explaining LTQ- bravo
bag man, if you dont get that techbro backpack you're good. utilitarian is great, and you dont look like a kid