Customer Reviews Fjällräven High Coast Hip Pack

I wear this with my high coast foldsack for travel and they compliment each other perfectly. They are both super light, very packable and comfy to wear for long periods of time

great utilitarian bb. pockets; both number and size are just about perfect. zippers are smooth, back zippered one fits phone , zips closed if necc or use as a slip pocket. front zip fits lip balms and airpods case. main compartment fits everything else—very small wallet, large set of keys, glasses in a soft case only, small hand cream, tall thin sanitizer spray bottle—the sunglasses could be stressed but fine for a short time. wish the interior mesh slip pocket had a small snap to keep items from randomly falling in/out. 2 gripes: the strap is thin, I prefer a wider one for wearing cross body, and the back pocket mesh is wearing out relatively fast compared to my previous (lulu ebb) which material still in good shape 5 years in. go figure.

The size is good and the strap is much longer than the other popular bum bag on the market so it fits busty and curvy frames much, much better! So props on that Fjallraven! The color, however, is much darker and duller than it appears on the websites. So that's a bummer! Ultimately, I decided not to keep it. I am a 90's kid so using a "fanny pack" again is just not something I can mentally do (lol!) But also, wearing it crossbody it sags in a very weird way that makes it annoying, I'm sure it would get more annoying as time goes on. I was able to fit a lot into it while wearing around the house to try it, but I do believe it would just get even more oddly shaped if you filled it one day and then had fewer things in it the next, for example. Thank you Fjallraven for a bag that fits more bodies and is an affordable price, but sadly I will be returning for the drab color and the odd shape/fit of the bags and pockets themselves (not the strap.)

I ordered this and the Timbuk2 Rascal Fanny Pack. Nothing wrong with the Fjallraven really, just that it seemed to not have a place to put the excess strap (as I am small and only wear it around my waist, not over the shoulder) or, at least, having to figure out how to use the little wrap-around piece of strap holder to 'hide' the excess was not intuitive. Also, while it had an extra zippered pocket that the Timbuk2 didn't have, that pocket felts so slim and also the zippers had such small teeth they felt too delicate. Having more pockets may be advantageous for some people, but for me, if I have to 'remember' which pocket I put certain things just makes my life that much more complicated.