who carries a man purse?

[97guns]

heres mine, dont really carry it everywhere i go though. i molle'd in a BM 140 on the shoulder strap

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m312/hd0642/HPIM0495.jpg

[Madnumforce]

Personnally, I don't like this "over the shoulder" style. I don't know if you would call it a purse, but I carry this:
http://ben3w.free.fr/pub/hfr/090809DSC_8031.jpg

It's an old bag the french army used during Algeria and Indochina wars period. It can take a A4 in it. It has one thin pocket on the inner side, one main pocket, and two other pockets side by side forming a partition between thin pocket and main pocket. I never knew what it is made of. It's a natural fiber, but extremely tough, becoming hard when wet. In fact, once I carried a gourd that oppened in the bag, but the fiber swoll so that most of the water stayed in the bag!

Of course, it doesn't have any modern features like the molle straps, and have less capacity than your bag, but it's cheap (about 15-20$), simple, and very tough. I've found a trick though: there is a wide belt loop on the back, and I've hidden my Spyderco Tenacious in it.

[Noss]

I don't carry a bag. I only carry what I can fit on my belt and in my pockets.

[Carney]

Hey men, call them something else! Like who carries a mini-bob, or shoulder style mollee bag. 97, yours is to tuff to call it a purse man! and madnum yours is to cool to call it a purse! I couldn't tell anyone I carried a purse! Laughing!!!!(kinda)

[ftw13lurch]

Gotta agree with that last comment, I mean, image ain't everything but to CALL it a purse... I sometimes refer to my Pacsafe 200 as a 'man-bag' - AS A JOKE!! Oh dear...

[Carney]

Gotta agree with that last comment, I mean, image aint't everything but to CALL it a purse... I sometimes refer to my Pacsafe 200 as a 'man-bag' - AS A JOKE!! Oh dear...

Amen Bro! Not in touch with my "feminine" side!!:thumb:

[Madnumforce]

How is it called, then? In french, the exact name of my bag is "musette d'allègement toutes armes (or TTA)", which could translate by all armies (air, land, sea) lightening haversack. We had a lot of nice bags in the french army, and most are relatively cheap in surplus now. Here (http://www.trancheemilitaire.com/64-musette-) are some. Do anyone of you have the adress of a reliable, comprehensive and cheap american gear surplus website?

[Carney]

How is it called, then? In french, the exact name of my bag is "musette d'allègement toutes armes (or TTA)", which could translate by all armies (air, land, sea) lightening haversack. We had a lot of nice bags in the french army, and most are relatively cheap in surplus now. Here (http://www.trancheemilitaire.com/64-musette-) are some. Do anyone of you have the adress of a reliable, comprehensive and cheap american gear surplus website?

Hello my Brother! We Americans (well some of us), refer to purses as "feminine", but it's cool as a BOB! Take it easy Mad!:rockon:

[Madnumforce]

Hello my Brother! We Americans (well some of us), refer to purses as "feminine", but it's cool as a BOB! Take it easy Mad!:rockon:

These are some semantic subtilities we can only learn from direct experience. So what is the right word, more precise than just "bag", to refer as a relatively small bag carried over the shoulder (i.e.: not a backpack)?

I know the word "haversack", but I'm not sure it's the right one to describe what I mentionned.

[Carney]

These are some semantic subtilities we can only learn from direct experience. So what is the right word, more precise than just "bag", to refer as a relatively small bag carried over the shoulder (i.e.: not a backpack)?

I know the word "haversack", but I'm not sure it's the right one to describe what I mentionned.

Hey Brother Madnum, you call it what you mant my friend!:)
Survival Sling Bag!!:rockon:

[wildjim]

A backpack if hiking or nothing.

I use a Timbuk2 messenger bag when riding my bicycle.

[trib trekker]

A bit of info: "Haversack" amazing how many English words come from Hebrew as much as from Greek and others. "Chaver" pronounced "haver" (ha-vehr) actually, means, "companion." Thus, haversack means attache', as it were. I still don't know how the Brits came up with their term for cigarettes, though.

[fncrazyno]

Some people call these bags a "messenger bag", I carry a small one when I travel short day rides on the motorcycle, or a small backpack for hiking.

[chiral.grolim]

A bit of info: "Haversack" amazing how many English words come from Hebrew as much as from Greek and others. "Chaver" pronounced "haver" (ha-vehr) actually, means, "companion." Thus, haversack means attache', as it were. I still don't know how the Brits came up with their term for cigarettes, though.
Etymology, Ooooo :D

The brit-term for cigarettes, I assume you mean "faggot" (of old French origin, I suppose), actually refers to a bundle of small sticks which are burned as fuel for heat, etc. Cigarettes resemble this both in shape and function - small sticks kept in a bundle of sorts, to which fire is set, so you can see where they got it.

Now, how a word referring to a bundle of sticks and later cigarettes came to refer in America to homosexual men is beyond me. The brit term "poof-dah" for the same thing (also of French origin) used to be onomatopoeia for something soft and fluffy like a cushion or hair-style... "Duh" means "head", so "poof-dah" could mean fluffy head/hair or perhaps fluffy head/brain... But I'm only theorizing now.


Anyway, since this old thread has been revived, I don't carry a man-purse regularly, but when I'm on a day-hike or travelling most of a day by bike/bus/plane/etc. I've got a Maxped Sitka (spent <$100 and really wanted it). That pack is convenient as hell, esp. since I bike or bus >10 miles on a daily basis to & from work.

[Falcor]

Hey men, call them something else! Like who carries a mini-bob, or shoulder style mollee bag. 97, yours is to tuff to call it a purse man! and madnum yours is to cool to call it a purse! I couldn't tell anyone I carried a purse! Laughing!!!!(kinda)

I don't see anything wrong with carrying a purse provided I have matching lipstick and high heels...
:p:p