When I first went to high school, I bought (in a back-to-school shopping sesh with my mom) what I thought was the perfectly cool school bag, and it was of the messenger variety. Now, for the next year, I would commute to school (via subway from Queens to the Bronx daily, a combined trip of approximately 3 hours) with a hundred pound weight on my back, but damn if it wasn’t stylish. It was, however, constrained to one shoulder.
And that made all the difference. Women everywhere suffer from chronically bad neck, shoulder, and back pains which arise as a result of our dumb habit of carrying an enormous weight on one shoulder. It is a true fact that, in a relaxed posture, one of my shoulders rests higher than the other, and if I were to lift weights above my head in each hand, one would appear to rise higher than the other. That is the extent to which I effed up my back wearing bad bags over the years.
Now, I crack my neck incessantly, wring my hands, wrists, and shoulders, rotate my spine to get it to pop, and rub my shoulder muscles to ease the strain daily. I am all fucked up, but I still need bags that work!
The newest addition to my bag collection, kindly provided as a test and review unit by the people at Speck, is super cute, functional, and durable. You can read the post I wrote about it here. But it’s still a one shoulder option. My other, work bag, is huge, heavy, and very un-stylish. Two shoulders though.
Isn’t there ANYTHING on the market which will work for me? 2 shoulders, business friendly, airport friendly, laptop bag purposed? Come on! The concept of this miracle bag has made it’s way to my holiday wishlist.
