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Great (little) vintage canvas bag, October 8, 2008

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Steven W. Johnston – See all my reviews

  

The hot issue with this canvas bag seems to be size. I don’t have any measuring tape on me, but from rough estimate 12×9(or10)x5. It’s small. I’d compare it to the small dickies messenger bags also found on amazon. The one major plus of this bag is it’s thickness. Mine usually has three or four thin traveling books, two steno pads, and one fairly thick book on Emily Dickenson. And still have room in the main compartment for misc thumbdrives, mp3 player, and blackberry. I have one of the dickies bags, and i could barely fit a couple steno pads before the thing appeared overfilled. It’s perfect for daily use, if you don’t carry a laptop or full size note pad. The construction has kept up with a couple months of hard abusive daily carrying and commuting.

I suppose all the previous negetive reviews came from people expecting something bigger. It’s definately small, but some how fits a lot of what I need day to day without resorting to a cumbersome full-sized messenger bag. The durability matched with it’s minimalist size definately makes this bag worth all 5 stars in my opinion.

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Worth Every Nickel, July 31, 2009

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S. Nyland “Squonkamatic” (Six Feet Of Earth & All That It Contains) – See all my reviews

  

  

It’s a shame that the critical reviewers were commenting on a listing error in the bag dimensions rather than the bag itself — which totally rocks. For or so you can do a lot worse for a handy little day pack type shoulder bag you can throw a sketchbook, a couple of pens, an iPod, cell phone and wallet into and hit the galleries. The bags were meant for carrying ammunition in Iraq while being shot at so it’s a fairly sturdy canvas construction with a nice tongue close hitch to keep the flap down & the weather out of your stuff.

I wish there were internal pockets or maybe an extra zippered pouch, but it serves the purpose of an inexpensive little personal carrying solution when you don’t need a whole backpack but would rather not stuff your pockets like some kind of a dork. It’s got a cool urban military jib to it’s cut too that’s something more interesting than an anonymous Office Max commuter bag, which is what I was replacing. This would actually make a great little inexpensive and USEFUL gift for that alternative minded young lady who thinks purses are for sissies, or the young punker scene guy who needs someplace to carry his iPod and couple of books, if he reads books. The black color is actually quite tasteful too.

If you need something bigger than that try the M-51 engineer’s bag, which will hold a laptop but was about twice as big as what I needed.

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I know the size!, June 24, 2008

Well, I contacted the seller directly and they replied that the measurements are apr. 11″x9″x4″. Mystery solved!

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