Hunting and gathering.
Seventy thousand years ago, it was a necessary means for survival.
Today, it’s a completely optional (but highly recommended) means for knapsack construction.
Also, a great excuse to visit Scotland.
Introducing The Fraser Balgowan Experience, a bespoke bag-making operation that has you living out of a 19th-century Scottish castle and buck hunting for your soon-to-be satchel, taking reservations now.
Imagine if Giorgio Armani personally took you gator wrangling for a briefcase. And then sat with you in his lakeside villa and designed it. That’s pretty much the idea here. Only this label is run by a husband-and-wife team (he shoots, she fashions) that makes their rugged-looking pieces out of locally milled tweed, polished brass buckles and hand-tanned, genuine red deer.
Which, of course, you’ll be charged with tracking/hunting through the Scottish Highlands. Relax, you’ll have backup. And it’s all optional. You can always stand by in head-to-toe sporting-wool camo while a guide handles the bolt-action business.
And after you’re finished getting your hands dirty, you’ll be picked up via vintage Rolls and transported back to Inverlochy Castle (yours for the weekend), where a Michelin-starred feast will be waiting. As will the deer hunter’s wife, with some blueprints for your new duffel. Or tote. Or iPad case.
They draw the line at fanny packs.
Seventy thousand years ago, it was a necessary means for survival.
Today, it’s a completely optional (but highly recommended) means for knapsack construction.
Also, a great excuse to visit Scotland.
Introducing The Fraser Balgowan Experience, a bespoke bag-making operation that has you living out of a 19th-century Scottish castle and buck hunting for your soon-to-be satchel, taking reservations now.
Imagine if Giorgio Armani personally took you gator wrangling for a briefcase. And then sat with you in his lakeside villa and designed it. That’s pretty much the idea here. Only this label is run by a husband-and-wife team (he shoots, she fashions) that makes their rugged-looking pieces out of locally milled tweed, polished brass buckles and hand-tanned, genuine red deer.
Which, of course, you’ll be charged with tracking/hunting through the Scottish Highlands. Relax, you’ll have backup. And it’s all optional. You can always stand by in head-to-toe sporting-wool camo while a guide handles the bolt-action business.
And after you’re finished getting your hands dirty, you’ll be picked up via vintage Rolls and transported back to Inverlochy Castle (yours for the weekend), where a Michelin-starred feast will be waiting. As will the deer hunter’s wife, with some blueprints for your new duffel. Or tote. Or iPad case.
They draw the line at fanny packs.
