Toques/Beanies are essential for surviving Canadian winters and I recently realized I have lost at least 3 favorite beanies and a couple of pairs of gloves due to carelessness or bad pocket design. I reflected on the losses and concluded they are the most vulnerable when they're not in use i.e. in my hand in a bus or car or when I'm putting them away in my coat pockets that can sometime prove inadequate for the volume.
I decided to design a small accessory to solve this problem. The idea is to have a single small accessory that can hold on to my beanie and gloves, that I can then fasten to a belt loop on my jeans or the carry handle on my backpack.
Also added some leather hoops to two beanies and two pairs of gloves. Used scrap shell cordovan leather sourced last year from Lonsdale Leather in BC.
Results below:
This works great so far on both backpacks and jeans. It does add some bulk and looks kind of odd at least on the jeans but I value functionality over aesthetics right now.
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