I was trolling Urban Outfitters.com to look for other tasty sale items to add to my cart before I checked out (some of the things in there are more than a month old!) when I came across this thing called the "Pocket Bag Belt." I thought, hey, that doesn't look half bad...and it's useful besides!
But after careful reflection, I realized that I'd been duped by a feat of well-positioned marketing, and that this item is nothing more than a glorified fanny pack.Observe: the only real difference between the 'stylish' item in the first photo and the unattractive accessory in the second is who is wearing it: one is a thin young woman, the other, a rather heavy-set older man. Ah, the power of context.
I threw in a third photo of a cute fanny pack that this woman made and blogged about. At least she had no pretensions and called the thing what it is.
