This decade is really the one of the explosion for the fanny pack. However, the fanny pack did not quite have its current shape. Its practicality, for storing keys or other everyday items, was highly appreciated. All this has helped to make the little bag popular. Even wrestlers, like The Rock (or Dwayne Johnson for the movies, as you like) wear the fanny pack. Some members of the hip-hop group Public Enemy appear with the fanny pack around their waist. It is thus natural that everyone started to tear off this accessory. The American magazine Adweek named it the most popular product of 1988. From the late 1980s, the fanny pack will explode. The effect is immediate and the banana bag becomes chic. In an advertising campaign, Claudia Schiffer, German model, wears it. In 1988, the famous designer and stylist Karl Lagerfeld created the first fashion fanny pack for the Chanel brand. But like other accessories, it will then move from the field of sports to that of fashion. Outdoor sports enthusiasts used to carry light equipment and food. The fanny pack is therefore rather reserved for outdoor sports in the 1960s. It's called that because it's tied in the back at the buttocks. A fanny pack was offered at a price of $10. An article, called "Christmas by Mail Order," suggested 50 gift ideas, to be ordered from New England. The famous American magazine mentioned the accessory in an issue published on November 22, 1954. Melba Stone would have been inspired by the pocket of the kangaroo to create it in 1962.īut it seems that the real first appearance of the fanny pack was made in Sports Illustrated. An urban legend, true or false, exists and indicates that the current fanny pack was invented by an Australian woman at that time. Obviously, men did not use the fanny pack in the form that everyone knows today. The little bag continues its way through human history to arrive in the 1960s. Like the Amerindians, the bag attached to the waist is made of buffalo skin, a material known for its robustness And yes, the fanny pack was already present at the time of the duels in the far-west. The cowboy is world famous for wearing a revolver around his waist, held in place by a holster. Two uses are made of it: gathering or weapon. In some photos taken by Edward Curtis in 1907, we can see American Indians wearing them at the waist. Native Americans carried a pouch made of buffalo hide to store all sorts of things. Indeed, the fanny pack is intimately linked to the history of native Americans, present long before colonization. During this period, the fanny pack already began to be adopted on the belt.īefore arriving in modern times, this small bag experienced the conquest of the West. It could be made with a simple flap or laced like a purse. In ancient times, the fanny pack was used with a leather cord or a natural string. The small bag crosses the times but does not weaken. The leather pocket he had is finally the oldest ancestor of the fanny pack as we know it today. The one also called Hibernatus can be seen in the archaeological museum of Alto Adige in Bolzano, Italy, if you are curious. The best-conversed human corpse in the world, Ötzi, already had a pouch, more than 5000 years ago. If these men had this kind of equipment, it was to keep the fruit of their harvest. Since the hunter-gatherers, men have used shoulder bags to keep their belongings.
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