The Dictator | Yes, bum bags are back - but which one should you get?

Now called the belt bag, the 90s accessory gets a high-end makeover for 2018 - just check out the offerings from Valentino and Gucci

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Once the butt of 1990s sartorial scorn, the bum bag is back and more expensive than ever.

The Dictator

Published: 5:03pm, 21 Feb 2018Updated: 5:02pm, 21 Feb 2018

Bum bags? Really? Tell me it isn’t so!

Bum Deal, West Kowloon

The Dictator rules: Calm down. You make it sound like a global crisis. Like narcissistic mad men have the nuclear codes. Like climate change is real. Like massacres still take place. Oh, God. Bum bags, or fanny packs, should be the least of your worries. And although we would rather not relive the 1990s horror, there have been some upgrades since then, if you must.

Valentino’s Free Rockstud Spike belt bag certainly makes a statement, whether its quilted lambskin with micro stud details is in bright green, red, turquoise or white (HK$9,800). Saint Laurent also makes belt bags (HK$6,750 each) rather than bum bags. The difference? They are a pretty, rectangular clutch with a leather tassel in black, beige or dark grey lambskin, on a thin belt, from which both bag and tassel are removable.

Gucci’s GG Marmont is relatively understated, with a removable, zigzag quilted oval clutch and belt in velvet or calfskin of various solid colours (HK$8,900 and up). You could also borrow from the men’s collection, which has the unabashed flashback, a logo-print leather bum bag (HK$10,200). Of all of them, and there really are a lot on the market right now, we’re most taken with See by Chloé’s convertible Kriss mini belt bag/cross-body bag in black or rose pink leather featuring a semi-circular pouch and gold-tone hardware (HK$2,710; Net-a-Porter).

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Now called the belt bag, the 90s accessory gets a high-end makeover for 2018 - just check out the offerings from Valentino and Gucci