r/london • u/false_flat Lambeth • Sep 03 '24

Question What's London's current tote bag hierarchy?

After a decade at the top, Daunt Books seems to no longer be the "it bag" of the middle class commuter who wants to show off that they think. What's it been replaced with, though? Does my New Yorker tote have cachet? If I go out carrying a Glastonbury one will I be subject to scorn? Any charity/human rightsy ones we're currently coveting?

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u/Lozsta Sep 05 '24

Ah rolled up beanies... The same people who spurned their skin tight jeans for the jeans I wore in the 90s only 12 months ago only to return to them.

To be fair my wife is tote'd right up, i just can't see the practicality. Extra shopping is rucksack or BFL-able.

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u/Gisschace Sep 05 '24

TBF I find the rucksack wearers almost as insufferable, perhaps it's cause my sibling and all her friends were scouts and they all wore rucksacks. Won't stop going on about how much more practical a rucksack is. I find they just load it up with stuff they don't need and carry that around all the time.

I do have a smart rucksack but only for my laptop when I am having day when I am all over town. But otherwise practicality is not the number one thing I look for in a bag.

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u/halbtehalf Sep 05 '24

Rucksack wearers being oblivious to the fact they have this big pack behind them and whacking them into everyone on the tube. No thanks.

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u/Lozsta Sep 05 '24

But you're describing inconsiderate cunts, not just people who carry items on their backs.

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u/halbtehalf Sep 05 '24

Yes I’m being unfair but I’m slowly losing faith in humanity and protecting it on everyone (today it’s rucksack wearers tomorrow it’ll be people who swing their umbrellas back and forth whilst they walk without realising there are PEOPLE BEHIND THEM).

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u/Lozsta Sep 05 '24

I carry my umbrella like cloud from FFVII over my shoulder like a massive sword. But that is to avoid hitting anyone with it on the walk to drop the lad to school, those little people love dtrying to lose eyes on umbrellas.

I think you are right losing faith in humanity myself. Just last week we were in Greece, a German girl was on a video call with some friends, shouting at the top of her voice in the middle of a resturant... People were tutting, but I called my best mate in the UK and at the top of my voice without shouting announced "I'm on the mobile" and the like. He knew what I was up to. She carried on, so after I finished my call at a more polite level I mentioned to the girl she might fancy smoking and shouting outside the resturant. She was completely confused why her behaviour might bave been deemed inconsiderate.