Hello! Shopboy here with your Friday fashion tips.

There’s been a lot of talk in the last few years about the pros and cons of a man carrying a small bag: on the plus side no more bulky pockets weighing you down, but on the other hand, it makes you look like a Thai male prostitute.

In this modern world however, with an i-pod, Blackberry, wallet and bottle of water to lug around the city, many young urbanites find a small ‘man bag’ to be an essential, and masculine, piece of kit.

Man bag
On Line 2, Shanghai subway.

Others just borrow their Mum’s holdall.