“The fanny pack is utilitarian by design and aspirational in application…”

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The fanny pack is utilitarian by design and aspirational in application, because a hands-free life is an engaged life — a life worth living. What does it mean to don a fanny pack? It means you have very little baggage, and what baggage you do have is front and center and neatly contained.

Jaime Lowe, “Fanny Packs”, The New York Times Magazine (6 September 2015), 19.

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