Have a great day krlock3 ..
Do the pros outweigh the cons? If so, buy one. If not, don't buy one.
The choice is literally yours.
btw, just be careful getting it into here - courier costs are nasty ... :/
if i would be a gay i might get me a Freitag bag..
never liked this one
oh.. now i've seen, you are german.. that explains your knowledge about the borschtsch...
They're bombproof. They have amazing capacity and resist almost everything you can throw at them. If you don't understand them, fair enough; I snigger at anyone with the imagination to wear a Louis Vuitton bag and have cosmetic surgery. Same same, but different. I doubt many use a Freitag to flaunt anything, though. They're utilitarian with privileges.
Plus, you can design them yourself. See their site for details. I doubt the 'Indian Cement' bag was a Freitag, though Beware of expensive imitations.
Secondhand Freitag bags can be had on Ricardo for much less than new.
Go to any highly creative city like Berlin or London and you will see the difference.
Even within the Swiss Fashion Industry there are people I meet on a daily basis who have no clue whatsoever. I mention an up and coming brand from the UK and they haven't go the faintest idea of what I'm talking about.
Even most shop owners have no idea of merchandising or colour concepts. To them a Sweater is a Sweater and a Shirt is a Shirt. Hang all of one kind in one corner and all other is another. I am glad if some of them have a working fax machine I can reach em on.
Just my "50 Rappen"...
Regarding the Freitag bags I think the concept is cool and hats off to their marketing but the bag itself isn't that special. But as people have said it's in the eye of the beholder.
and this clientel isnt wellknown for wearing fuchsia or california blue suits, right?
instead if you dander from limmatplatz over langstrasse to badener strasse...it is different. and the shops there are diverse from city shops too. check out streetfiles or firma and the like and youll find nice clothes in there that are (more) "up to date" (eye of the beholder comes into play again, of course). zurich is the lot smaller, it has the size of camden or soho only. its clear by given facts it cant have the megalopolis amount of different styles that next corner are topped again with the next hot stuff.
and the masses buying any new trend is wayyyyyyyy smaller so shops see turnaround at risk i can imagine stuffing the windows n displays with stuff they cant sell. there are only some small islands doing different. how this works you can see by the size of said streetfiles shop. its a niche clients supplier, unfortunately talli weijl is doing better (yuk)...
I take it everywhere because of its practical size, expandability, durability and most importantly because it's waterproof... here in Bern it rains all the freaking time and the Freitag bag is the answer.
My camera kit usually travels in the bag but it'll hold a load of groceries in a pinch too. And to think, when I bought it two years ago, I just thought it was cool... now I can't live without it because it's just to darn useful.
No brand can do without a Marketing dept. or good P.R. agency nowadays or how do you think a Freitag bag ended up being featured in a recent Hollywood Blockbuster? And I take it product placement in magazines is happening all by itself as well?