Missionworkshop is out on the fringe of ultra-hip cycling goods and makes some jacked-up shit. Even though the straps on this bag are nylon they’re suffering the dangly cinch-strap (DaCS) syndrome† too.

Whether you’re anal-retentive or not, you’ll feel those dangly straps flapping all around and it’ll drive you completely out of your mind to the point you just don’t give a damn about hip or not-hip.   I dunno, maybe I can survive dangly for cool.

But the meat of the matter in the coolness of these bags is the material: waxed canvas. Waxed canvas is really sexy shit. Nylon ballistic has been so overdone and so lifeless it bores you to death now (as in ED). Like wool, wax’d canvas is coming back big because of its natural esthetic in terms of its organic appeal. You’re seeing it everywhere now. It produces a hot fiery synapse in the recesses of your grey-matter that governs visceral appeal. When you touch waxed cotton you’ll know what I mean. Nylon: lifeless. Waxed Cotton: sexy (and you know how that makes your brain feel).

Waxed cotton {a material with historic significance that’s deeply intertwined with the sentiments of Rule-V}, along with wool, is how the we conquered North America; couldn’t have suffered the elements otherwise. In our all too human quest for superiority we created synthetics and in our true disdain for nature (a sentiment we adopted as a tactic for dominance) we embraced those new materials, however, we have come to realize that natural fabrics simply make us feel good and do a better job.

After all, we don’t wear polyester any more. Do we?

Estén muy Moda Animaux!