Backpacks have become indispensable in almost all areas of our lives. From hiking and camping, youngsters attending school, mothers and fathers carrying their infants in newly design front pacts, and recently even for corporate executives.
Well, I think it is about time. I have been using a backpack when I was working for advertising agencies, magazines, and publishing companies. Of course, I was an art director, not a corporate executive, and the creative people working in those companies, well, we were always considered a little strange, allowed to get away with things that the corporate people could not. It was a lot of bull, but hey, if it worked for you, well then you just go with it.
I think one of the reasons the backpack has become acceptable and respectable, is that major designers have created very up scale backpacks. An article I read had photographs of eight backpacks to choose from. The prices range from a mere $540 for a backpack from mismo.dk, to a $3,695, backpack from, brunellocucinell.com. For those prices, yes, it is acceptable and respectable.
The article also brought back memories of my first backpack. It was when I was a Boy Scout. Going hiking and camping meant that you had to have the proper equipment. My father took me to the Triangle Army/Navy store located on Flatbush Avenue, in Brooklyn, New York. Not having a lot of money, he was always the best at getting what I needed for a reasonable price. We walked around the store with our shopping list looking at the best options for the best price. He found an Army surplus pack, designed for a ski unit, that was large enough to hold everything that I needed. It had a metal frame that fit on my back very comfortably, with lots of exterior pockets for smaller items that I would want readily accessible, instead of having to look through the main large compartment.
It was a great backpack, of course not acceptable or respectable in today’s corporate world.
