Everyday Pack 21L

This backpack is amazing quality and definitely worth every dollar. I love it!!!

... and have now added the 21L Everyday Pack to the collection. Primarily to be used for travelling abroad so I will not be putting it through a full test until next month when we travel to west coasts of USA and Canada. My aim is to get a laptop, i-pad and camera gear in the bag as well as edc essentials. Not entirely sure how successful that is going to be but looking forward to the challenge.

I have quite a bit of wingback kit (1 pen, 2 pencils, pen stand and key fobs etc) and trusted this would be a similarly robust piece of kit but sadly it’s not functional or fit for purpose;

1. The wax cloth (great material in principle) can’t be cleaned. I got some cream on it and it is now effectively stained. Despite sponging it I can’t improve on its currents state. I travel quite a bit and i ruined it (still functional but the black colour has now been ruined) on its first outing. Crazy for something at this price point.

I think unlike the wax jackets I have (still look great 5-10 years on) this has a thicker weave which means it is harder (read impossible) to clean.

2. I like the ideas of the metal buckles (I also ordered the halo straps) . The downside is that without thinking when taking off the pack or putting it on a table if not careful you could easily do a lot of damage. It’s quite hard to say how careful you need to be (the buckles are v solid and weighty) - having used back packs for decades you now need to remind yourself each time you use it that you now need to be very careful about placing it down / taking it off and accidentally hitting something or somebody in the process. Remember the buckles are on straps so it is easy for them to swing about.

Disappointed as wanted to love this but sadly can’t.

Superb quality. Excellent design. It exactly matches the promise.

OK so I spent £340 on a rucksack. It’s an outrageous sum but hey - buy once, buy quality, right? And tbh I quite like the fact that it does not look like a £340 rucksack. It’s stealthy. And the quality seems high. £340 high? I’m not sure. Wax cotton isn’t kevlar. Kevlar might be cheaper. But that’s not my main beef… I think that for £340 I might have got: (1) much better, more frequent comms relating to the build and delivery of my rucksack. Instead, I got one email way after the 5-working-day promise and nothing more. (2) I wanted my £340 rucksack to come nicely packaged. Maybe with a personal note from the founder (I get that from Frahm, from Spoke, from others) and maybe with a nice box or tissue wrap. Instead, it came on its own, unwrapped, in a brown paper bag. Stealth, taken to the max. In summary, I want some evidence that Wingback cares about me and the £340 I spent on a waxed cotton rucksack. Don’t make me regret it. Instead, verify my choice with some love.