Best man bags to buy now for every budget Naomi May
In 1999 when the Friends episode ‘The One with Joey’s Bag’ first aired, it was a laughable joke when Joey, the dish of the sextet, finally found love with a tote - given to him by his fashion-forward friend Rachel Green.
‘But it’s a woman’s bag?’ Joey retorted when Rachel suggested the black leather cross-body bag.
‘But all of the men are wearing them!’ replied Rachel.
We might have giggled then, but in the 22 years since, man bags have indeed gone from drab to fab. Once the accoutrement of every archetypal Type A or City Boy the world over, the man bag’s renewed fashion-forward status was seen most recently at the autumn/winter 2021 shows, where male models clutched all manner of holdalls.