Greeeat, you get to take care of like a saddle.
Every gorram day.

Have fun with that.

What type of herb is nutbastard smoking that they think I would pay $800 for a leather bag?

Can someone relate to me the advantages of a messenger bag versus a backpack? I'm not trying to dismiss them but often it just seems like hipster accessorizing to go with a side slung bag like that, though I will concede that backpacks aren't exactly fashionable.

Its a thing of beauty, and if I didn't already have a similar one, I would be all over it.

@strider_mt2k: Sometimes, taking care of, or not taking care of, an item like this is just exactly how you grow attached to it, make it your own, and if all goes well, allows you to hand it down to the next generation.

beautiful bag. I wish i had the money to spend on this kind of stuff...

Great looking classic bag, but I will wait for the identical knock off, sans JCrew label, that will sell for 90% less.

Nice bag, but pricey. However, I do put all my business in J. Crew boxers.

Uhh, I mean J. Crew gets all my boxer business.

@Geisrud:
Same thing all the people who buy bags from numerous other brands. 'Il Bisonte' has some lustworthy examples...

I@FightingChance: Backpacks make you hunch forward when you walk, they're almost always way bigger than they need to be, and if you're doing any commuting, it sucks to have to take it on and off every time you sit down on the subway, or worse, hit people with it when you turn in confined spaces. You can also access a messenger bag without taking it off. Backpacks are great for hiking and carrying lots of stuff you don't need to get to while traveling. For commuting and frequent access, messenger bags are the way to go.

*TEH MOAR U NO!!!!!1*

Very classic. I like.

Great looking bag. Will have to pick up a knockoff when I get to Korea next month.

I have a $30 messanger bag that i've been using for the past ... forever, really. it's out of the way, holds what i need it to hold, and it's durable. paying $795 for a bag is on some lady shit.

I'll stick to my Jack Bauer messenger bag!
[www.amazon.com]

@Curves: Knockoffs are always missing something. Quality of leather and lining, polishing of the straps and so on. That said, it's ironic that a replica of something quite so budget would cost so much.

@laiten: Word. The ladies have more of an excuse to spurge on bags, but I've always thought high sty;e in men is under appreciated, especially with the whole man bag stigma.

Sweet. I wouldn't pay $800 for any bag, but there's a beauty in having something that will last years and only look better with age.

Putting all value into function without any regard for form is a pretty empty way to conduct yourself.

@zenpoet:
I agree wholeheartedly, but keeping a bag nice because your job as a messenger required it and keeping an 800-dollar utility bag nice and maintained on the off chance that your child or grandchild will complete it's wearing out process is sheer sentimentality.

Not that it isn't a gorgeous bag, because it is.
It's just that it seems those requirements are misplaced in an item of this type in these times.

I prefer things that aren't made out of animal corpses.

Ok, so the original was desiged as a utility bag, functional, not flashy, probably not very expensive to produce, and then some rich freaking quailtard comes along and reproduces it, no creativity involved at all, and wants to charge me 800 buckazoids for the privelige. Pull the other one, I say.

Ah, they're a day late a hundreds of dollars short. Mulholland Brothers has been making one for ages. They're cheaper too boot. AND you get to choose among several finishes. J Crew leather is crap compared to Mulholland Brothers.

[shopmulholland.com]

$800 + tax for a leather messenger bag?

This is why their retail stores are disappearing. When you walk into the store, and actually see the stuff in person, you think to yourself "no way this is worth it." It looks better in the catalog than in person, and that's what they're hope for.

Best laptop bag I've used was my Pinder bag
[www.pinderbags.com]

And as a nice side note, google image search of pinder is fun:
[images.google.com]

I have a bag that looks... just like that.

Got it for 50 bucks... 3 years ago...

Why 800?

@MadColombian: Some asshat put their name on it, or some other asinine social construct... of course!

@liveinvt: We differ on that. I'm a carnivorous, animal pelt wearing, top of the food chain human being...the way people rightfully should be.

Vegans are breaking natures law and are horrible people.

Back on topic. The bag is gorgeous and I would be willing to buy it for maybe $100 because it is leather, but not $800 just because it has a designer's label on it.

@liveinvt: you forgot to add "NSFW" (not that i care or anything)

@liveinvt: friggin hippies.

How about an endorsement by leather-bag spokesmodel and Rolling Stones lead guitarist, Keith Richards.

He's the reason I only buy Louis Vuitton leather bags - because if you want to know quality leather, ask a man who looks to be made from quality leather.

@OMG! Ponies!:
Yeah but to keep it looking that way you have to go to Sweden or Switzerland or something and have the fluid content completely replaced.

Allegedly.

J Peterman has been marketing a similar bag for +20 years.

[jpeterman.com]

J Peterman sells their counterfeit mail bag for $295.
[jpeterman.com]

Or go to Mexico and get the same thing for $30.

@iMike: Damn get out of my head iMike. ;-)

It's weird in here, isn't it.

:D

@strider_mt2k: Keith Richards cannot be killed by conventional methods.

@B1663R: That's true, my bad. Sorry. It should be in my signature or something...

@GOKOR: The hilarious part is that your definition of "nature's law" is the destruction of nature.

It's like a constitution that says "Article 1: Shred me!"

I wonder how the SCOTUS would rule on that one. We already know how the POTUS would. 0:)

for 800 bucks they could at least show a pic of the inside. timbuk2 padded corduroy laptop slip-slot thingy is hard to beat.

@liveinvt: We are at the top of the food chain. That means, according to nature and the animal kingdom (which, yes, we are a part of), we can eat whatever we think is tasty and won't hurt us.

Our place atop the food chain has nothing to do with our poor management skills regarding killing every animal we want to eat or don't want near us, it just affirms our right to do so.

Vegetarians I have no problem with, it's just their choice not to eat meat (although if you eat fish, you're a hypocrite). Vegans on the other hand, should never have a say in any matter of what human beings should and should not be allowed to do because their views on things are skewed into the absurd.

For $800.00, this thing better come with a year's supply of blackjack and hookers. In fact, forget the bag.

Seriously though, I think I'll stick to my Chrome bag. The strap on that thing looks like a recipe for nerve damage in your shoulder if you tried to carry more than a few pounds in it regularly.

while J. Peterman was perhaps my favorite character on Seinfeld, I wish someone over there would spring for a fucking camera.

It's not the bag, it's what it contains.

If you saw Stephen King pull a manuscript out of this, you might think 'really cool bag'.

If you saw a hipster pull out a J Crew catalog out of this while sitting at Star Bucks you would likely think, 'complete tool'.

@liveinvt: @GOKOR: Don't forget about the Level 5 Vegan:

[www.urbandictionary.com]

I'm of the, "Save grass, eat a cow" persuasion.

@aldenf82: Messenger bags can also give way to spinal damage, to be honest.

Backpacks are much worse, you're right, but these bags can also cause damage.

The bag I currently use is one of those shoulder slung backpacks with one strap the wraps across your body. It's much easier to carry than a backpack or a messenger bag...for me at least.

@Geisrud: +50 for the great Simpsons reference.

I would choose this if I delivered for Wells Fargo on horseback, however, the real OMG! Ponies! set would probably turn their muzzles up at the non-brass rivets and buckles.
For this price they should throw in a laptop.
I used a Freitag bag for 8 years in all kinds of weather biking with laptops and more and then recently shifted over to a Timbuk2 to hold more stuff. I could buy 4 of those for this, or I could scout out an original leather postal bag and have a real Collector's Item"
[www.freitag.ch]
[www.timbuk2.com]

800 is so excessive!

$800? No thanks. I'm very certain that I can find very good quality leather bags for much less than this in more discrete (while still legit) setups. That said, I'm a messenger bag fan myself. I use a Swiss Army bag for traveling, and it's been a good durable stuff holder for a while now. I'd love to get a leather bag, but I've grown fond of the padded laptop pocket and expandability for those times I'm carrying just a bit more clothing on long trips.

As for Veganism, it's a terrible, evil religion that makes you hate the things you love to eat, makes you give up an important part of the human diet, and reduces you to hypocritical meat-flavored vegetable matter and leather-like upholstery so that you can be a guiltless poser. Nay I say suckas. Nay!

Don't they friggin' know there is a recession going on?

@Gloria: True. Substance without style is just an undifferentiated, odorless, translucent-grey paste.

However, I'm not sure this is a good example. The leather looks nice, but for $800, it had better be made from an unfrozen mastodon's actual scrotum.