A Murse!

[sallytuppence]

My husband got this email today and forwarded it to me. "Look," he said. "I could be in the style pages!"

Yeah, of the Cedar Rapids Gazette...

To: john-prineas@uiowa.edu

Comments

[gregvaneekhout]

What kind of bag does John have? Link!

[sallytuppence]

I have no link! IIRC, he got it as a present from the Humboldt Foundation when they offered him a fellowship--aha, to do his postdoc in Germany, so it must be that European style connection!

Anyway, it's an over the shoulder bag, not bulgy, but sleek, squarish, black leather with a matte, mottled pattern.

[sallytuppence]

I can't believe I spent the time googling this. Here is a

link.

As a note, the bag is not a Prada bag, this is just the closest match.

[gregvaneekhout]

Say, that's a sleek bag. I went with something quite similar to this. Not nearly as sleek, but the anvil logo connotes manliness.

[charmingbillie]

Is that actually his/her title--'Young Adult Reporter'? Cool.

If you call a man purse a 'murse' won't it be confused with male nurses, who could also be called 'murses' (if one went, say, temporarily insane). So a male nurse's man purse would be a murse's murse. Or something.

My favorite part, though, is this One of your former students thought she remembered you carrying a bag like that. It's like he's now famous all across Eastern Iowa.

[sallytuppence]

Yes! The most stylish physics professor in Iowa! What an accolade!

He also wears socks with his Birkenstocks, just so you know.

Yes, that's the reporter's title, from the email. I reckon she's an intern.

"Murse's murse," hee!

[silk_noir]

Oh my gawd.

[sallytuppence]

Indeed!