Solo Hybrid Laptop Backpack
- Present yourself like a grown-up with this convertible briefcase
- Use it as a backpack when your boss isn’t looking, and only use one shoulder strap when your crush is looking
- Fill the many pockets and sleeves with gum, phone chargers, and whatever else you need to survive another tedious day
- “The backpack straps fold discreetly into their own zipper pocket, ensuring the briefcase’s slender design,” but non-slender briefcases are beautiful, too
- Check out this “product image” from the Amazon page that has nothing at all to do with the product, but gosh is he dreamy
- Model: UBN309-10 (This model number can be converted into a better one by removing the hyphen)
A Worker In The Pleats, A Freak In The Streets
This convertible backpack -> briefcase solves a dilemma facing the modern urban office worker. Should you bring a briefcase or a backpack to work, meetings across town, and (most importantly) job interviews?
On the one hand, backpacks are superior to briefcases in purely utilitarian terms. You can carry heavy objects like laptops, chargers, and half-eaten Qdoba burritos in a backpack for many city blocks without encumbrance. Carry that same queso-drenched burrito across town in a briefcase and you’ll need a chiropractor to snap your shoulders and spine back into place. Sure, you may get sweaty from a backpack during the summer months, but that’s a small price to pay for proper alignment of the vertebrae.
On the other hand, briefcases look more professional than backpacks — there’s no way around it. Even the most august Senior VP looks like a middle schooler as soon as she swings a backpack over her shoulder. Backpack manufacturers have been struggling for years to create a “sleek,” “professional” book bag, but it’s almost an oxymoron.
This Solo hybrid bag lets you have your cake and drench it in queso, too. Use it as a backpack during your commute, then switch it over to a briefcase as you approach the office building. Your shoulders will retain their alignment and your professional reputation with retain its integrity.
And unlike most hybrid bags, this one doesn’t look like garbage. Often these “convertible briefcases” are just backpacks with a handle, but this one looks legit. it’s not a leather-bound attache case that you would expect to find filled with unmarked, nonconsecutive bills, but it’ll pass muster in most places of work.
In fact, the only major concern you should have about carrying this bag into work as a briefcase is the resentment you may engender in coworkers. “Oh great, Kristy is bringing a briefcase to work now?” They’ll say. “Now I can’t use my JanSport anymore without looking like a joker. Thanks a lot, Kristy."
Except, instead of “Kristy,” they’ll be saying your name. The JanSport part will stay the same, though.
