'Women have so many roles, one bag isn't enough.'
"Women have so many roles, one bag isn't enough."If you routinely take public transportation in a city like New York, you, like me, may also play the "Count the Cotton Canvas Tote Bags" game on one or both legs of your daily commute.
As we plunge further into the belly of the so-called "gig" economy, commuter bags are only becoming more lucrative. Today, the freelance or self-employed sector is growing three times faster than the overall U.S. workforce. As of 2016, 34% of Americans were considered to be part of the gig economy, a figure that is expected to grow to 43% by 2020, according to Intuit.
When I get on the phone with Jeannine Scimeme, adjunct assistant professor in Accessories Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology , she explains this was the first occasion that women en masse were entering the workforce at unprecedented rates. Between 1940 and 1945, the female percentage of the U.S. workforce increased from 27% to nearly 37%; by WWII's end in 1945, nearly one in every four married women worked outside the home.
Cashin's impact is the stuff of accessory legend, setting the course for the incomparable likes of Miuccia Prada and her line of black nylon bags, which were first released in 1978. By the mid-1980s, Scimeme recalls that the totes and backpacks and mid-sized crossbodies were visible on every corner of Manhattan, a literal garbage island quietly swaddled in trilobal nylon.
Dan and Tim cheekily named their latest range the Apollo Collection, in reference to our new frontier of work and travel, and how the two intersect. While Haerfest carries product on its own e-commerce site, these bags are exclusively available in limited quantities on Indiegogo, a nod to the "super-engaged and super-vocal" crowdfunding community.
Alas, my branded canvas tote provides no place for my keys aside from the very bottommost corner, and my own water bottle has a tendency of dribbling everywhere at a moment's notice. So why am I still grabbing for it morning after morning? "I see a lot of patients with back muscle pain related to the worker's lifestyle of a heavy bag: a long commute in the car or on public transportation, poor ergonomics at the office with laptop use and working at home on the laptop on the couch or in bed," says Dr. Fischer. "All of these activities, repeated five days a week, can lead to back muscle spasm."
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