I can appreciate a good jacket.
A versatile piece of clothing that not only covers you up in the cold but also adds style to your outfit. Practical AND aesthetic, a perfect balance!
That’s usually the case with well-made jackets, but sometimes that balance is tipped towards one side – such as with this ‘jacket’ that I saw last night:
WTF?!
By travel clothing specialists Scottevest, the Carry-On Coat is designed to hold all your gadgets and some other essentials (such as a passport, clothes, water and shampoo) in one… jacket as you travel around, minimising carry-on and check-in luggage.
Now maybe this is just me, but when your jacket comes with an accompanying ‘pocket map’ I think it is taking things a bit too far.
This jacket is decked out with multiple pockets specially designed for certain tech toys (a ‘pocket’ for an iPad, pockets with special clear-through sections so you can control your iPod/iPhone) and even has it’s own Personal Area Network built-in. A weight management system and “NoBulge Pocket Design” minimises any awkwardness of carrying your shirt and shoes in your pockets.
Never mind the issues you’ll inevitably face when you walk through airport scanners and so on, this thing just plainly makes you look like a “d-bag” as so eloquently put by a commenter on Engadget.
But to some extent, I do understand where the need for such an item comes from. The marriage of tech and fashion is one that many companies strive to achieve.
And consequently, many of us fall prey to it – cases for our phones, bags for our laptops… but it’s not necessarily a bad thing when in good taste.
Now that's a nice looking DS case
