Sporran VS Fanny Pack...

[auld argonian]

...so I mentioned earlier that I attended the Memorial Day Parade the other day wearing kilt and sporran...there was a guy across the parking lot (with the Boy Scouts, I think) who was wearing his khaki's and fanny pack...'cept it was a rather large fanny pack and he was wearing it on the front of his trousers...so it looked more like a very ambitious (and embarassing) codpiece than a fanny pack....he, of course, was totally oblivious to the illusion that his standing there in profile with arms akimbo was presenting.

Now one of my friends - she's a fellow ex-school board member and the mom of my son's girlfriend - has not taken well to my wearing the kilt...in point of fact, she's gotten downright strange about it and keeps refering to it as a skirt (and I'm tired of correcting her)...so I pointed the fanny-pack-codpiece guy out and said, "..you know, you're right...maybe I should dress like that guy." She just got very quiet and her husband and my wife and I fell out laughing.

So go with the sporran instead of the fanny pack...

...but if you MUST wear a fanny pack, wear it on your FANNY....please...


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[Caradoc]

...but if you MUST wear a fanny pack, wear it on your FANNY....please...

In the UK, that's a "bum bag."

"Fanny" carries an entirely different meaning over there - and you do NOT want to use that word in polite company unless it's someone's proper name.

[Riverkilt]

So how does a person access a fanny pack in back? Wore Fire Department issued fanny packs for five years, always wore them to the front. No other way to get to the gear on a moment's notice. Would seem extra hard to spin it to the front for access while kilted.

Ron

[Eujeankilt]

It's rare to see anyone wear a "fanny" pack in the back anymore, unless it's for hiking. I wore one for years in the front position with khakis. It sure beat the sciatica caused by carrying my wallet in my back pocket. I guess it's about what you're used to seeing. I only gave up my "fanny" pack recently to a SW nylon sporran.

Dale

[davedove]

It's rare to see anyone wear a "fanny" pack in the back anymore, unless it's for hiking.

That seems to be the way most people wear them, mainly because it's easier to access the pack when it's in front. It IS better to wear it in the back if you're doing any amount of walking.

[auld argonian]

Caradoc: two nations seperated by a common language...in these here parts fanny strictly means the "buttock-ial region" and is considered an innocuous term for it...rather little kids should say "fanny" than "ass"...I wasn't aware that it had another definition over there. I guess that I'm not quite getting exactly what it does mean in the UK but I do get the message that it must be something a bit more unmentionable than "ass".

And I do see that many people wear the things on the front...lot of cops I know carry their off-duty cop stuff in leather ones that they wear in the front...makes sense: you have to get stuff out of it. My point in this case was that this guy might have not stuffed so much stuff in it considering where it was situated.

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[Iolaus]

I guess that I'm not quite getting exactly what it does mean in the UK but I do get the message that it must be something a bit more unmentionable than "ass".

From what I was told... think "opposite sex."

[phinz]

Fanny packs are only suitable if you're attending an Indigo Girls concert.

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

OK, going out on a limb here, but I am still not getting a clear understanding of "fanny" in the UK, and possibly other places across the pond. The reference to "opposite sex" does not sound like it is a big deal, so I am unsure of the problem with using fanny? or maybe it is fanny with pack in the same sentence? If I am being dense (would not be the first time!), or it is really not appropriate to this forum, please PM me.

[mrpharr]

Not much of a fanny pack guy. Love the sporran.