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How Men’s Hype Bags Became the New Sneakers
1 Morning very last Oct, Maynard Villaflores, 24, set his alarm for 5:55 a.m. Snoozing was not an selection: At 6 a.m., New York model Telfar was dropping a restricted number of its coveted unisex purses on the web. “Within two minutes the luggage [would] be marketed out,” mentioned Mr. Villaflores, a social-media supervisor in Portland, Ore. He snapped up a mini olive range that he now wears across his upper body. “The hurry and [hype around the drop] reminds me of shopping for Jordans,” he stated. Mr. Villaflores is not the only gentleman to liken luggage to kicks. For the past 10 years, males have feverishly collected sneakers, nerding…