AstroManLuca
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This. Wearing a backpack over suit/business casual makes you look like a highschool kid applying for a burger job.
Or a Mormon.
This. Wearing a backpack over suit/business casual makes you look like a highschool kid applying for a burger job.
Couple guys at work have the same one and like them a lot.... found it at the egg for a little less with free shipping.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...GER-_-34996916
Clearly paragons of professional etiquette...
Have you ever seen a backpack in a board meeting?
http://www.realmenrealstyle.com/suits-backpack/
Do NOT use a backpack in a professional setting. It makes you look amateur at best. Just buy a messenger bag and you're set. I would recommend a cheaper case logic bag like this: bag
I don't care what you use. I'm telling you what management thinks of other people who use backpacks. I can tell you from personal experience that managers, directors, VP's all look at your attire. You're attire includes the backpack or bag you use.
And that makes you look like a tranny.
Seriously, that couldn't look more like a purse if it tried (...harder).
Options:
1) briefcase
2) messenger bag
3) paper sack
Random google yields-
http://www.ebags.com/category/messen...bags/m/leather
To me, those at the top strike a decent mix of 'professional' and 'does not give handjobs in public bathrooms.'
That's great if you work at a place that's stuck in the past. Admittedly many places are, thankfully my job doesn't have any such unspoken fashion rules.
stuff
Why is it always guys in pony tails, sandals and black tshirts that try to hide behind that?
You're already following the set decorum by wearing a suit; it's not some mysterious "unspoken" rule that no one's heard of.
It's no different than wearing baseball caps with suits or using a track suit jacket as a suit coats. You just don't do that.
Not wearing a suit. Wearing a simple two tone long sleeve shirt, no buttons, with my sleeves rolled up. Shock of shocks, nobody here cares.
What kind of office\industry do you work in?
Financial Institution (Fortune 100)
I'm in NYC and the office is filled with SVP's, Marketing, Client managers, underwriters, Auditors and a few technology folks.
I was in meetings with the CIO, VP of Finance, Directors, Department Leaders, CEO etc..
Suit and Tie....very conservative. Dark blues, white shirt. Conservative understated tie. None of that "skinny suit", "Stylish" cut bullcrap here.
(Fortunately our team gets away with business casual)
Dress shirt, pants and tie required always
Oh well yeah, that's a totally different story. If you're wearing a suit or formal business casual (suit w/o tie or jacket), the backpack thing applies.
Your taste in men's accessories is now forever in question if you think ALL of those briefcases make you look like a tranny. Most of them are classics, and all of them are sturdy enough to last a lifetime.
Halik did us the favor of saying what I meant in a more straightforward way. Plenty of other quality manufacturers.
Are you confusing my link with the link I was replying to? 'Cause all of those Coach bags at the top of the page (I have a penis and am thusly not perusing their whole catalogue) were not square, had giant round leather loops for handles, and other general trademarks of what we call a 'purse.' Giant, trendy, whore purse, at that.
The best options have pretty much been exhausted in this thread. a) leather messenger bag (briefcase-esque)...b) cloth messenger bag (less classy, but functional and less 'childish'/mormom-looking)...c) backpack (only in certain environments).
$500 tranny-bag = no.
I use this one when I travel:
http://www.amazon.com/Wenger-GA-7305.../dp/B000NONHYY
Holding up fairly well so far, moderate travel but only about 2 yrs old
I think they have them at Best Buy.... err Amazon showroom if you want to go down and check it out.
Dude, come on...
That doesn't look a little too effiminate for you?
FWIW, my bro-in-law, ex-Marine, deployed to Iraq like four times, plus many other overseas deployments, smaller than me but could surely kick my ass...he carries a small 'iPad bag' that, being smaller than a laptop bag, is kinda purse-y. He even thinks it's a little purse-like...admits that he learned the awesomeness of the man-purse while stationed somewhere in Europe. But it's still a fabric brick, and looks nothing like those leather hag-bags. Also he can back it up with the whole 'could kill you' thing.