[Closed] Local youths and man bags.

Dunno but I applaud them, it's eminently sensible.

Clutch bags were very much in vogue in Europe years ago, I don't know if they still are. I still have a nice Italian leather number I used when working in the Middle East due to lack of pockets.

Ridiculous.

Don't worry. Fashion will soon come full circle and [s]everyone[/s] the youth will have big pockets again.
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When you start querying teenagers’ fashion choices it’s time for the old people’s home.

across the shoulder handbags

You mean a satchel?

Roadman fashion innit blud.

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When you start querying teenagers’ fashion choices it’s time for [s]the old people’s home.[/s] Carousel.

FTFY. 🙂

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What you've found there, is a classic roadman.

Emancipation, disenfranchisement, sexualised objectification, and the rise of the transgender era.

The age on enlightenment is with the youth, you’ll need to get used to it..

For carrying weed, vape and shank.

Except these are satchels they had them when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s.

I never carried anything exciting in mine though.

These are smaller than satchels, nothing wrong with them. Could come in handy for skinning up on a windy day.

l they do all vape though , another thing I find strange seeing young kids vape.

I have of those seventies satchels. Hardly ever use it though. Now I definitely won't as will be a weird old dude trying to look young. Instead of just a weird old dude in shorts. Oh gods there's no escape.

Edit: Wait. .... shorts ... satchel...socks...

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... Crocs!

Roadman fashion innit blud.

They're funny. Think they're yardies. My son and his mates dress like soul boy mods, like nothing better than winding up the roadmen. Same as it ever was!

In France, almost all teens/youths seem to have these miniature satchels across their body. I only know the South of France, but its very noticeable.

[i]They're funny. Think they're yardies.[/i]

Yup, just like all the wannabe football thugs fancy dress chavs 10 years ago (or thereabouts).

A guy in work has one, he aint a youth though. It looks stupid, he is in his 40s and built like a tank and he carries about this little leather handbag with a long thin strap across his shoulder.

Thing is he doesn't wear skinny jeans, he has proper pockets.

I have never heard the term "roadman" before. But looking at the uniform, it is leaving the shop stickers on the cap peaks that makes me irrationally angry. All other youth fashion i can quite happily ignore or just laugh at the more ridiculous statements, but leaving the sticker on the baseball caps peak makes me want to grab them by the collar and slap them till they see sense.

have never heard the term "roadman" before.

+1

(Seriously) Was I the only one who thought that by 'winding up the roadmen' you actually meant that young men carrying gender-neutral handbags and wearing skinny jeans were walking past burly road-workers and eliciting not wolf-whistles, but surly confusion? #surlyburly

you can really tell the English live on an island, in more ways than one.

Nope never heard of roadman I also don’t think I’ve even seen anyone who fits that description.

Ah well, maybe having a teenage son makes me more aware - Or maybe everyone is roadmenz except me an' Dezb....

[i]having a teenage son makes me more aware[/i]

Oh most definitely! He was playing me "How to be a roadman" youtube vids in the car yesterday to entertain me. (We were stuck in a massive queue)
Dunno who the video makers were or I'd link them as they were pretty funny.

I never carried anything exciting in mine though.

I noticed them too.

Is it the influence of the migrants?

I'm not a youth and probably not local unless you live near me, but I use one. I'm a geek, my pockets are at capacity.

I was actually shopping for a replacement at the weekend actually, mine's seen better days. Seems the only ones you can readily buy now are either the size of laptop bags or about big enough to fit a cheese slice.

I've got a selection of man-bags and have also never heard the word 'Roadman' before.

I've used them for years. This has absolutely nothing to do with fashion, and everything to do with the sheer volume of crap I tend to lug around with me

Re: Roadmen...
Nope, no idea at all. This aspect of yoof fashion, or whatever the hell it is, has totally slipped past me; I guess I must have been doing something more important or interesting with my life when it raised its pointy little head.

Seems plenty of them in Manchester and Sheffield where I currently seem to be spending most of my time. My general observations are they tend to be estates kids or from the less glamorous area's. It doesn't seem to be a fashion that's hitting the more middle class. I find it a very confusing mix of influences for a fashion, but it's certainly got an anti-establishment draw for those disenfranchised teens. This generations 'hoody' I guess.

For the record I am all in favour of manbags, and I'm an active user. I think they can set off an outfit nicely, but maybe not as used above.

Out of interest what are you all carrying in these bags? I leave the house with a Kent folding beard comb (I pre-date the hipster beard), glasses on my face, phone and bank card. I'm struggling to think of anything else I might need to be honest.

Beard comb?

No cash, No keys, but a beard comb!

Brilliant

Never heard of Roadman!

Fam? Really?

I have a rather nice tan distressed leather satchel today, and inside;
iPad
Notebook (paper type)
Pencil and pens
Drawings for a flat I'm sorting
Tape measure
Bank card
Bottle of water
Mints
Paracetamol
Sunglasses
Cash
Keys
Hip flask (I'm a trains, planes, buses and taxis man)

Phone is in my hand 🙂

Is this mumsnet?

My rather nice John Roscha man bag presently contains

Todays Guardian
This months Singletrack mag
Kindle
Headphones
Sketchpad
An array of drawing pens in various weights
Powerpack for charging stuff with an array of cables 'stored' in a spaghetti fashion
Ibuprofen
Mrs Binners spare glasses
Various e-cig liquids
Packet of cheese and onion Seabrook crisps
Wooly hat
Wallet
Keys

It says 'disorganised ****-wit' rather than 'Roadman' 😀

This thread is now operating on three levels:

Youth tribes;
The practicalities of man bags or similar;
The joy of lists!

[i]It says 'disorganised ****-wit' rather than 'Roadman'[/i]

Indeed, without a handy shank you are just another manbag carrier.

I too have noticed this trend for a small bag closely strapped to the chest of local youths. Always assumed it was for carrying drugs and cash. There's a group of "Roadmen" that cruise the streets in the evening round me. I see them when walking the dog on the mean leafy suburb streets . The dog sees these streets as his territory and marks them accordingly. Hope it doesn't become a turf war.

Roadman keep some Peng tings in his bag, innit, fam.

Dem yoot round this way been wearing them bags for years. Roadman looks been strong round here at least 5 years.

'Roadman' used to basically mean 'drug dealer' but these days it's a fashion thing as much as anything. From the London estates in the late 2000s:

to the mean streets of York, 2013:

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What's a manbag really? I have a bag I use for work (Crumpler Gold Dig XL) with its sole purpose being to move my laptop to the office/place of work and back. Anything else either lives in my pockets or, if I am travelling, in a daysack. Possibly in a jacket.

Are we talking some sort of small 'pocket on a strap' thing?

For me it's a bag that has both function and is also worn as a fashion accessory, by a man. I have a couple of different sizes and styles. If I had a bag solely for carrying a laptop etc, that didn't show any consideration to how it looks then that would be just a laptop bag.

For the record, I have an unhealthy interest in looking smart, and I'm on a train so I'm happy to discuss something so boring at length.

'Roadman' used to basically mean 'drug dealer' but these days it's a fashion thing as much as anything. From the London estates in the late 2000s:

to the mean streets of York, 2013:

That second video, is that Scott Redding, pre Moto GP?

 

Is it the influence of the migrants?

Migrantis, surely, if we're talking about manbags?

I blame David Beckham.

For both the manbag and the sarong I'm presently wearing

[i]For me it's a bag that has both function and is also worn as a fashion accessory[/i]

First part, yes. Second part, you're a wannabe roadman.

you're a wannabe roadman.

A calling I can only aspire to at my age. But I believe I is looking well peng 8)

Dem yoot round this way been wearing them bags for years. Roadman looks been strong round here at least 5 years.

In keeping with the rest of your post you probably should've kept the second them as 'dem' and finished with the ubiquitous "for time"

Thusly...

[i]Roadman ting been 'round for time![/i]

Ya feel me, bruv.

The local yoof, who hang out at the Co-op, see no irony whatsoever in describing themselves as the Witham Death Squad.

Despite that, no handbags.

That second video, is that Scott Redding, pre Moto GP?

That second video, is that the first video?

I can't work out if that video is meant to be a piss take or serious.

I have just read all the above posts. Twice. No idea at all what any of you are on about.

Bags. You can put things in them rather than having to hold them in your hands or overload your pockets. I'm surprised this is a new concept for you, they've been around for a while now.

Me neither but at least now when someone talks about Roadmen (Roadmans?) I’ll be able to claim an aloof indifference without having to worry that they’re trolling me and there’s actually no such thing as a roadman. Consider me educated.

they've been around for a while now.

Not again.....!

Kids been wearing these bags for years. The Socks and sandals thing makes me laugh...

No cash, No keys, but a beard comb!

Brilliant

Not carried cash for a few years now. Just seems a bit pointless in this day and age. Very rarely lock the door either and only take the one key if I do. Never leave the house without the beard comb 😀

Beard comb?

For combing facial hair. Crazy I know!

That second video, is that Scott Redding, pre Moto GP?

That second video, is that the first video?

ah yes, C&P fail sorry. It was an early Giggs tune FWIW...

Here's the Roadman vid my son eductated me with last year. And we revisited yesterday for entertainment.

Excuse the vid style, kids understand it, I'm sure 😆

binners

Seabrook crisps

greatest crisps known to mankind

You wouldn't get a laptop and the Guardian in the bags they have around here, more a boy bag.

At least they don't have wheels and ****ing handles and trundle about taking twice the ****ing pavement.

You ain't OG.

Does a frayed old Timbuk2 courier bag count as a man bag? If so, I am horribly at risk of being dahn wit da yoof. Or something

How about a LIDL carrier bag?

so are THESE roadmen?

What manbag for carrying my billhook?

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What manbag for carrying my billhook?

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No, these are roadmen

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^^^^
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[i]No, these are roadmen[/i]

Nah bruv! Creps are totally clappin.

Yes fam!

They've banned man bags at my daughter's school.

If you can't fit a standard exercise book in it you can't bring it to school.

How come?

[i]How come? [/i]

because all the boys stopped taking their exercise books to school because they coulnd't get them in their fashionably small man bags...

Ah - so they were using them instead of school bags rather than as well as.

Looks like Blackpool is where it's at nowadays :

Roadman Shaq - Man's Not Not (R1Extra Fire in the Booth session)