Newsboy Fashion World
Newsboy Fashion World
NEWSBOY BAG
Komely Enterprises Ltd
By the post war years, child labour laws and rising prosperity had brought about the demise of the downtown newsboy, but the newsboy bag lived on in the waterproof variant used by enterprising teenagers on suburban paper routes and in the scruffy,
Ink-stained bags favoured by university students.
The barely adolescent newsboy-with his peaked and pillowed “newsboy cap”
And heavy, oversized “newsboy bag” was one of the iconic figures of the American street scene in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when the shrill cry of “Extra! Extra!” was the insistent litany associated with every homeward-bound.
The newsboy’s scruffy canvas bag was a vital tool of his trade, as vital, indeed, as his unpolished hobnailed boots.
In New York, at the time of the famous Newsboys Strike of 1899, at least five thousand newsboys plied the city streets and avenues.
Although they provided a vital service circulating news in what was then the world’s largest democracy the boys were often considered to be little better than vagrants.
Little more than capacious canvas envelope, with a long, strong strap and a flap to keep out rain, it was issued by the newspapers and bore the newspaper name printed prominently on the side.
The messenger bag , of course, is another of the newsboy bag’s contemporary cousins.