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Best Clothes and Accessories for Fall
…ired by military utility pants from the ’50s and ’60s but delivered with a modern twist, the Relwen Military Supply Pant takes you from work to the weekend with ease. The pant features a durable mid-weight cotton twill paired with 3% stretch and includes a mountaineering crotch gusset and knee pleats for tough but comfy and flexible wear. The tapered legs add modern style and the adjustable button side tabs help you tailor the fit. Relwen Windzip…
Limited Edition MiiR x Carryology Camp Cup
…ium collaboration with our at Miir. < SCORE YOURS > The MiiR Camp Cup is a modern nod to the rugged outdoor mugs we all know and love, but with a level of refinement and quality that takes it far beyond your average camp mug. Constructed from medical-grade stainless steel, it offers exceptional durability while resisting wear and tear that often plagues outdoor gear. The double-wall vacuum insulation means this cup will keep your coffee piping hot…
February 2025’s Must-Have Gear | From Minimalist EDC to Suave Travel Staples
…your essentials while a piece of soft leather wraps around the frame for a modern yet classic look. It holds up to four cards and a few bills. The Key Ring is crafted from a block of stainless steel and is built to withstand the wear and tear of everyday use. It’s made to hook quickly on and off your belt loop, yet can live just as comfortably in your pocket. As a bonus, each ring features a built-in bottle opener. Nodus Obscura Watch Nodus is a w…
Win THREE Timeless Classics from Bleu de Chauffe with this Giveaway!
…irations, while delivering a distinct French flair that’s right at home in modern settings. But Bleu de Chauffe goes beyond carry too, paying the same meticulous attention to detail across their clothing line. Made in France with premium materials, their clothing salutes timeless style, expert craftsmanship, and comfort. And our Bleu de Chauffe giveaway lets you enjoy all of this! The Prize Pack We’ve partnered with Heddels, Valet Mag, InsideHook,…
April 2025’s Must-Have Gear | From Packable Alpine Apparel to Sophisticated Travel Companions
…rock culture, with updated material combinations and functionality to suit modern-day carry needs. The main fabric used in the collection is CORDURA Ballistic® Hollofil Air, which is strong but light through the use of hollow fibers. Additional CORDURA® fabrics in varying tones provide a subtle nod to camouflage patterning, while a front flap pocket serves as a common feature across the collection and provides easy access to small, frequently need…
Upgrade Your Carry: 5 EDC Picks from Budget to Luxe
…including the panto, square, and aviator. The VISOR series is designed for modern transit, providing panoramic vision and enhanced glare protection. Available in two silhouettes, the series features ultra-light stainless steel with a wraparound toric lens shield secured with a MYLON® shield clip, in a salute to both brands’ focus on technical innovation. Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Automatique 42mm Steel (from $15,500) The original 1953 Blancpain Fift…
Carryology x rofmia Daypack | An Ode to Tradition and Tomorrow
…of history. “When the time came for us to become independent in the sewing industry, we encountered an old house that used to be a kimono shop. It was not only suitable as a sewing workshop but also a place where we could gain great inspiration for making things. We started rofmia with the concept of creating a brand that naturally stands within this house. rofmia exists by offering our skills in response to the inspiration we receive from the hou…
December’s Top New Gear Picks | Upgrade Your Carry Setup
…-smart EDC upgrades. From ultralight welded packs to heritage jackets with modern details, these are the month’s standout additions in EDC, urban, outdoor, and travel carry. EDC WaterField Designs Aero Bifold Wallet WaterField Designs blends heritage and technical with their new Aero Bifold Wallet. Slim and minimalist, the wallet is crafted with a combination of lightweight X-Pac VX-21 and full-grain leather panels, offering durability, water resi…
January’s Top New Gear Picks | Upgrade Your Carry Setup
…sule reimagines Red Wing’s American workwear heritage through HUMAN MADE’s modern cultural lens, offering a refined take on the Red Wing 8″ Classic Moc and Pecos. The collection also features a co-branded varsity jacket, sweatshirt, and graphic t-shirt crafted in Japan and inspired by heritage workwear. The footwear takes inspiration from the #875 and #877 patterns to incorporate a zipper, and also features Hawthorne Abilene leather, a key materia…
The Pack That Killed the Pack Mule
…wing rapidly, promoting wilderness as a spiritual and physical refuge from modern life. But the gear was holding people back. Traditional backpacking was the domain of serious outdoorsmen—people willing to suffer through the discomfort and expense of heavy, cumbersome equipment or pack animals. The Kelty pack changed that equation. Suddenly, a weekend backpacking trip was accessible to average people. You didn’t need to be an experienced mountaine…
How to Pack for Winter Mountaineering
…he possibilities are almost endless today. Base Layer Both merino wool and modern synthetic fabrics perform very well, and their blends can offer the best of both worlds. The cardinal rule is to avoid cotton entirely because cotton retains moisture and significantly increases the risk of hypothermia—an axiom commonly summarized as “cotton kills.” Choose fabrics that wick moisture away from your skin and dry quickly, so you stay warm and dry when a…
Kangaroo coin pouch
…ionally, kangaroo meat has been suggested as a much more eco friendly food source than beef, as kangaroos don’t generate methane, a noxious greenhouse gas. If the roo meat industry does grow to meet these two industries needs, we may need to be more clever with our use of their full hides……
F-Light Series from Rip Curl
…ies from Rip Curl Have surfers been single handedly holding up the airline industry? In recent times, excess baggage fees have become rude, and with the weight of boards, wetsuits, pillows and teddy bears (what?!) you can start to imagine how it is stinging our pockets. Rip Curl figured they’d try to leave some of that coin with the traveling surfer, and so have tried to lighten the load of hauling your boards… Part of their F-Light series, the bo…
Road Tests :: SLICKS Suit25 Backpack
…y are packs flat? This is a pet peeve for us that the vast majority of the industry is guilty of (for a more in-depth discussion, check an earlier post of ours). If you want to carry a laptop, the SLICKS is very guilty of this, with its structured form really see-sawing against your spine. Without a laptop, it bends well enough. Weight: This is a heavy pack. All those features add up to 2.4 kilograms, which is noticeable on a long commute. There’s…
Hauling your Apple iMac (or other large device)
…base. It turns out he wasn’t the first designer to try this, and so a mini industry is growing up around pixel pushers that don’t like to settle for small. From the research we’ve done, which isn’t exhaustive by any means, we’ve come across the following, with the Timbag being the one we’d buy if we were in the market. But we haven’t tried any of these yet… If a maker wants our friend Jimmy to try theirs, then he’s keen as mustard to give a proper…
Road Tests :: Osprey Momentum 26
…y for a similar bag? To be honest, besides panniers, I don’t feel like the industry has really shown any love for backpacks for commuters. While it’s not perfect, the Momentum is pretty darn close. Conclusion When you are riding your bike to work each day, you want a pack that does exactly what you need. No more, no less. I think the Momentum 26 really hits the sweet spot between size and functionality. It has everything including the kitchen sink…
Mtn Approach Ski System
…under (Cory Smith) worked with Dave Narajowski for the designs. Dave is an industry vet who used to lead a design team at Black Diamond, which explains that sexy-stealth aesthetic they are running. While we haven’t had a play with this yet, it’s certainly looking like a great new way to carry your boarding butt out to some fresh. And as a telemarker, I’ll be stoked to reduce the number of snow shoes messing with our tracks! If you want to explore…
Carry On Week | RIMOWA
…ghtweight Polycarbonat for our cases. In 2000, RIMOWA was the first in the industry to globally introduce polycarbonate into case production – and thus revolutionised the global market in luggage. More than three years were spent on research before the first RIMOWA case made of polycarbonate satisfied the demands of the engineers and designers. The triumph of this material from aviation technology, which since the RIMOWA success has been used by m…
New Contributor | James Jeffrey
…initially studied industrial design, and how I ended up in the soft goods industry is a bit of a mystery. But I’m well and truly in it now, and enjoying the variety it brings. I was working with bags and shoes before I graduated and have been doing so ever since. But my real initiation into the carry community came when I accepted a job based in Vietnam as a designer for a European based brand (although with Australian roots). I was there for 3 y…
Carry Geeking | Cordura Fabric
…ars, scuffs and abrasions. 2. Could you provide some information about the industry shift away from PVC backings and how new options stack up? Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is rarely, if ever used except for in the cheapest, lowest grade backpacks [Ed’s note: There are still way too many bags in this category]. Currently, you would not see that type of backing in any reasonably priced daypacks, technical packs or even luggage. PVC backings are very hea…
Interbike 2011 Carrology Report
…l for $125 and $129 respectively. — YNOT Cycle, a relative newcomer to the industry really impressed me with their enthusiasm and pack designed. What started out as a small company has now turned into outgrowing their space and being forced to expand twice. The bags are all handmade in Toronto and all feature floating liners. What this means is you essentially have a bag within a bag, offering improved waterprofness. The Gulper is their flagship b…
Drive By :: Topo Designs Daypack
…aps also really stands out among the sea of plastic you mostly see in this industry. The labeling is very minimal which I liked; just a small patch for the logo plus a tiny tab with the American flag. They use large YKK zippers which are a dream to open and close – so smooth and no snagging! The best part about them is if your hands are full, you can zip them open or closed with just one hand. There’s no need to hold the fabric with another hand t…
Road Tests :: Samsonite Pro DLX3 Spinner
…er and a wheeled sports bag and…(OH NO you don’t) – Ed Post Note: For some more thoughts on spinners and hard luggage, check Ando’s post on where he wishes the industry would go with them: https://www.carryology.com/2011/01/28/talking-wheels-hard-cases/…
Road Tests :: Bedouin Foundry Barbary Messenger
…rom Europe for quality and animal welfare, and is a by product of the food industry). All the leather is Veg Tanned (this is the old method using tree bark and acorns etc) NOT using such nasty chemicals as most leather (Chromium)“. Additionally, they’re using matching leather edge binding throughout the bag. The reason most brands don’t use leather for edge binding is because it is extremely difficult and takes a talented craftsman many years to l…
5 minutes w/Alex Drayer
Welcome back for another quick bite of industry insight courtesy of our ‘5 Minutes With…’ series. Lexdray founder Alex Dray shares his thoughts… – – 1 – What key insights drive your products? Clean, understated and simple on the exterior. Detailed, organized, and sophisticated on the interior. 2 – Who else is doing rad things in the world of carry and why do you think they’re important? One company who is deeply entrenched in the world of carry i…
5 Minutes w/ Bart Kyzar…
Welcome back for another quick bite of industry insight courtesy of our ‘5 Minutes With…’ series. Mission Workshop co-founder, Bart Kyzar, shares his thoughts… 1 – What key insights drive your stuff? We want our bags to add a benefit through either functionality or improved design. If we can’t address an issue or improve something we’d rather move on to a different project since there always seems to be more ideas than time to pursue them. 2 – Wh…
September 1 Week in Review: Versatile Daypacks, Creative Keys, and Camera Carry Innovations
…is type of creative carry, a Keylet can be yours to own. – A Quick Bite of Industry Insight – We hope you guys have been enjoying our ‘5 Minutes With…’ series. Our latest post in the series offers up some insight from Bart Kyzar, one of the co-founders of Mission Workshop. * To round off this week in review, if you’re a student, you have kids or you know someone who does, you may be interested in checking out this guide to the 20 best back to sch…
5 Minutes w/Defy Bags
…over 15 years in Chicago. While there are many things I’d change about the industry, there are some great similarities between product design, and say great type design for a print ad, or tv commercial. Namely, details matter. I try to pay attention to details. And after I’m done paying attention to the details, I pay more attention to them. – 4 – What’s next for you guys? What’s next for Defy? We’re hoping to (sorry) Defy expectations. First, we’…
Road Tests :: Solid Gray
…a lively and bustling melting pot of businesses in the creative and design industry.” The Solid Gray brand and backpack come from Lijmbach, Leeuw & Vormgeving, a product design firm created by Jasper de Leeuw and Herman Lijmbach (both graduates from the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands, a school with a great international reputation in product design). It’s hard not to take a second or third look at the pack, as it isn’t something you s…
Week In Review ~ 17 November
…is exactly what Kletterwerks did, increasing in influence and becoming an industry game-changer until the brand rights were sold in the early 1980s and the end of Kletterwerks followed shortly after. That is until Gleason’s son stepped in to revive the brand with a full collection that can be purchased now. Want to find out more? Yeah, we thought you might – click here for an awesome write-up on Kletterwerks’ history and rebirth. – All American A…
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