My good friend Elise, who I mention ten thousand times because she is super awesome, turned me on to the reimergence of the fanny pack. She has been rocking a Le Sport Sac fanny pack for years now, and it wasn't until she pushed me to get one at a thrift store that I got one: a huge, blue and orange Salom Snow, fanny pack for skiiing.
Let me tell you something: the fanny pack rules. Not because it is extremely trendy or anything, but it is a HUGE conversation starter and attracts people over to you, which is slightly amazing. More important than trendy or conversation starter, it is a Party Pouch.
"A 'Party Pouch'? What is that?" you ask. I answer that it is a glorified fanny pack that is a party on the go: I use my Party Pouch to carry streamers, blowers, a harmonica, disguised bottles of liquor, an even smaller bottle of mixer, a disposable camera, and anything else I accumlate as the evening erodes and devolves.
Moreover, the next morning after a night of vice, you are destined to find some fun creatures lurking in your Party Pouch. The night after my twenty-first, this is was I found:
Other more day-to-day use of the Party Pouch are that it can:
-hold unecessary accessories you are wearing, like hats or sunglasses
-be used to smuggle dinner into a movie theatre
-hold your car keys and phone
-support a mini-dance party, with iPod and battery powered speakers
-to steal shit, if you steal shit
-hold babies
Party Pouches are here to stay. Embrace it.
(NOTE: this post is dedicated to Emma, because she inspired this post and, on twenty-one, the Party Pouch did in fact have party hats and a "Welcome New Baby" balloon attached to it.)
8 comments:
eeew, you found someone's panties in your fanny pack?
My boyfriend makes fun of fanny packs, because in the UK "fanny" means something else...
But I agree. Bring it back! So convenient. We need to take the fanny pack away from the "old person" and make it young again.
Can't believe you were harassed by Hanson at your old school. Blech.
I totally need to start stashing babies in my fanny pack. I don't actually have one, but my best friend had one for about a year and I made her cry every time she wore it. I should really go and apologize, because somehow you have just made me sort of bend to the almighty powers of the Fannypack. You had me at "they can be used to smuggle dinner into a movie theatre".
Also, sweet! A post dedicated to me? ;^) (see, even my smiley embraces the possibilites of the Party Pouch)
I totally need to start stashing babies in my fanny pack. I don't actually have one, but my best friend had one for about a year and I made her cry every time she wore it. I should really go and apologize, because somehow you have just made me sort of bend to the almighty powers of the Fannypack. You had me at "they can be used to smuggle dinner into a movie theatre".
Also, sweet! A post dedicated to me? ;^) (see, even my smiley embraces the possibilites of the Party Pouch)
That is possibly one of the greatest ideas ever. I hate it how when I go out I always lose something because I put it down in a frenzied moment. I love 'moments'. I'm buying one and sending you a picture to say thanks.
ahahaa
oh wow i love that 'party pouch'.
i really do.
no joke.
it looks pretty cool on you, even though i'm positive on certain individuals it might prevent them from being taken out in public.
even though it's a man fad, i could definitely dig up my little mermaid one.
hahah that reminds me, i used to play smashmouth on my tapeplayer which was cleverly stuffed inside said fannypack.
"I totally need to start stashing babies in my fanny pack. I don't actually have one, but my best friend had one for about a year and I made her cry every time she wore it."...i was convinced you meant your best friend had a BABY for about a year which she would frequently wear and which you would frequently make fun of...i was shocked and appawled and then i realised you were talking about her fanny pack...i am STILL shocked and appawled. lol...
love the blog...
I have a fanny pack too! Mine was plain until I wrote 'suffragette city' on it in rainbow fabric paint and stuck a David Bowie button in it, because I love that man.
Uh,I'm glad I can carry a hand bag instead.
But, you keep on rockin it with pride!
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