I've got my parachute pants at the ready for when they come back.

Seems like people are trying to be SO hip they are too hip for a messenger bag now. If you only hae a few things to carry get a smaller messenger bag. Or break out the buster brown backpack. Then you can be a trend setter and bring something else back from fashion history to live again!

All this outfitting yourself as a comando and other weirdness is funny to me. When I think of "tool belts" I think of Norm from This Old House.

But to each his own!