"The design drew inspiration from the concept of “a piece of cloth”
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Personally, I’m saving up for the “Apple Stick and Bindle”, the nouveau-hobo accessory of the season.
Here I thought it was going to be a small screened cheap iPhone and I was excited for a minute.
Inspired by the concept of “a piece of cloth,"
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Born from the idea of creating an additional pocket, its understated design fully encloses iPhone, expanding to fit more of a user’s everyday items.
“The design of iPhone Pocket speaks to the bond between iPhone and its user, while keeping in mind that an Apple product is designed to be universal in aesthetic and versatile in use,” shared Yoshiyuki Miyamae, design director of MIYAKE DESIGN STUDIO
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When stretched, the open textile subtly reveals its contents and allows users to peek at their iPhone display…
This can’t be real. Checks URL again.
Phone Pocket features a singular 3D-knitted construction that is the result of research and development carried out at ISSEY MIYAKE. The design drew inspiration from the concept of “a piece of cloth” and…
iPhone Pocket in the short strap design retails at $149.95 (U.S.), and the long strap design at $229.95 (U.S.).
…What the fuck? This has to be hack or something. There’s no way a human being wrote that article, and didn’t know what they were doing.
it’s so stupid I’m still not convinced it’s real.
I know a lot of normies have iPhones because it’s a phone and they see it as a good phone. Fair enough (shitty monopolistic behaviour and Americans’ - yes, this is not a thing in my country - weird ostracisation of green text bubbles notwithstanding)
But Apple is also the brand that made phones a “status symbol”.
I can very easily believe this.
There will be an upsetting number of people that buy this glorified, and much less useful, shoulder bag.
yeah I understand your point.
it was the year 2005, and I was rocking the tmobile MDA with a data plan. I showed folks around me the touch screen and browser and they were like NNNEERRRRD.2 years later they were flicking little paper wads into a little garbage can on their iPhone 3 and raising their pinky in the air as if they were the technical elite.
Soo yeah
What the actual fuck.
I’ve commented on here before how women’s clothing generally doesn’t have large-enough pockets for smartphones. A lot of modern women’s clothing is form-fitting, and has small pockets.
So either you revise the clothing or add some kind of wearable bag/pocket.
Used to be that women wore dresses, had slits in the skirts that they could reach through, and then had sorta wearable pockets on beneath them. But full skirts are pretty dead now, so:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket
By the 17th century, pockets were sewn into men’s clothing, while women’s remained as separate tie-on pouches hidden beneath skirts.[5][6]
In the 17th to 19th centuries, women’s tie-on pockets—mentioned in the rhyme Lucy Locket—often carried everyday tools like scissors, pins, needles, and keys.[7][8]: 113
In modern fashion, men’s clothing usually includes pockets, whereas women’s clothing often has smaller or even fake ones, sometimes called Potemkin pockets after the concept of a Potemkin village. A 2018 study by the Pudding found that fewer than half of women’s front pockets could fit a thin wallet, let alone a phone or keys.[9]
When I first ran into this, I thought “well, put the phone in your purse then, dammit, you’re already carrying that for feminine hygiene products”. Problem is that women don’t haul (bulky) purses everywhere — walk into the office, say, set down the purse at the desk, and it’s mostly staying at the desk. I don’t know any women who wear their purses around the house. But they do want to keep the phone available all the time.
And the smartphone is a pretty ubiquitous item to want to carry around now.
So unless women’s clothing changes to have large pockets and somehow deals with not messing up the body’s silhouette or whatever makes that a problem or the smartphone form factor changes (“big smartwatch?”), I expect that people have to wind up with some kind of mini, wearable container. Like this.
I mean, this is a absurdly priced solution, but that’s a fair point.
It’s stupid fashion’s that way. I always thought that when I saw girls sticking phones in their shorts waistbands or whatever.
We should go back to the future:
Or even better, improve it:
And have shorts like that too? I dunno, I’m not a fashion expert, but still.
