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It’s time to bundle up! If you lost a mitt or need a new coat, now is the time to purchase those heavy duty, keep-you-warm-all -winter items. We’ve found the best winter weather gear from your favourite stores, like Sail, Sorel, Mark’s, and more. With the right gear, we promise winter will become one of your favourite seasons.
Fanny packs are the ultimate hands-free essential for outdoor activities or day trips. This is because they’re stylish in design and offer tons of space to store all of your daily must-haves.
We’re rounding up the top fanny packs to shop from your favourite brands that will meet your travel and outdoor activity needs!
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Jansport Fifth Avenue Fanny Pack
This budget-friendly fanny pack is lightweight and durable making it the perfect companion for your next outdoor outing. The adjustable waist belt ensures a comfortable fit while the bag itself weighs just 4 oz, making it ideal for taking on the go.
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Clean Lines Belt Bag
This stylish belt bag is made from water-repellent fabric. The zippered interior and exterior pockets ensure easy access to all of your essentials.
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Adicolor Classic Waist Bag
Pack up all of your daily must-haves in style with this lifestyle waist bag from adidas made out of recycled materials. It merges functionality with fashion.
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Zigzag 1L Hip Pack
This pack has two convenient pockets and a daisy chain for easy storage, plus an adjustable belt for an overall comfortable fit.
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Stride Running Belt
Are you always on the go? This running belt from alo is specially designed for those with an active lifestyle. Now, you can go the distance with a sleek and ultra-light fanny-pack style bag that’s made from water-resistant, rip-stop fabric. Plus, it easily stores everyday items such as keys and your phone in its large main pocket.
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Crest 1.5L Lumbar Pack
Available in two colourways, this unisex fanny pack will comfortably store all of your daily must-haves with ease, thanks to organized compartments. Design details also include compression straps that help secure your belongings closer to your body for enhanced carrying comfort, as well as side access zips.
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KÅNKEN Hip Pack
This stylish hip pack is a must-have for cottage trips this season. It features a casual design in which top handle and waist belt options offer multiple carrying options.
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Carhartt Rain Defender fanny pack
Stay organized and on-trend with this unisex fanny pack. Featuring a large zippered main compartment, a front pocket with a key fob, and an interior mesh pocket for added storage, it’s super versatile in design. This bag can also be worn three ways; as a cross-body, around the waist, or off one shoulder.
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Timberland leather lumbar bum bag
It’s produced with 50 per cent recycled content and includes stylish design elements such as an embossed logo and nubuck leather trim for a modern take on the classic hands-free silhouette.
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Rilo unisex fanny pack
If you’re looking for an elevated daily essential, this unisex fanny pack from Rudsak has it all. The sleek yet sporty design is perfect for any active lifestyle and the adjustable waist strap ensures an all-day comfortable fit. It’s also made with high gloss waterproof zippers and features fashion-forward details such as the iconic Rudsak logo.
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DAKINE Classic Waist Pack
The classic everyday essential makes hands-free storage a breeze thanks to zippered compartments and adjustable strap detailing. It’s available in black or camouflage colourways.
Sleek Sling Bag
On the hunt for a bag that can carry it all without going out of style? Enter the sleek sling bag from Gymshark! Its functional yet sporty style makes it a must-have for your next outdoor trip or adventure.
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Lululemon’s latest drop has officially landed. The Hike collection includes men’s and women’s apparel and accessory options that are both functional and performance-focused. The collection features versatile items that are designed to be convertible, packable, and water-resistant. Take a peek at the lululemon Hike collection’s highlights as well as the must-have pieces you need to gear up for the outdoors.
Collection highlights
Designed to fit your outdoor, active lifestyle, the brand’s newest apparel and accessories are made for storing and exploring, where convenient characteristics are integrated into each piece in order to help you keep up with changing conditions. As a result, built-in details such as extra pockets and zip-on and off features allow for a hands-free experience and custom climate control capabilities, so you’re prepared no matter where your next adventure takes you.
We’ve taken the guesswork out of what you need to sport during your next outdoor adventure by rounding up some of our favourite pieces from the new lululemon Hike collection below. These are the elevated apparel and accessories you need to take your exploration to the next level.
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Lightweight Cinched Hem Hiking Tee
Hiking will be a cinch in this tee. Featuring grid-textured mesh fabric that’s breathable and sweat-wicking, you can also control airflow by cinching the attached drawstring cord. Since this piece is treated with No-Stink ZincTM, you’ll feel fresh throughout the duration of your outdoor adventure. A convenient hidden zippered pocket is also the ideal place to store small items such as cards or keys.
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Energy High-Neck Longline Tough Bra
This high-neck bra offers supportive coverage thanks to an integrated four-way stretch that moves with your body. Now, you can take on the hiking trails in confidence, since this bra features Smooth LuxtremeT—a fabric crafted to wick away sweat—as well as pockets, which give you the ability to remove the cups for a more custom fit.
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Grid Fleece Hiking Overshirt
Layer up your look with this hiking overshirt, it’s grid-textured mesh fabric is sweat-wicking, quick-drying, and naturally breathable. Stashable features take this piece to the next level in terms of keeping everything you need easily accessible. For instance, the hand pockets feature a hidden phone sleeve, and another zippered sleeve pocket allows you to keep personal cards or keys on hand.
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Multi-Pocket Cargo High-Rise Hiking Skirt
Complete your outdoor outfit with this ultra-functional hiking skirt. Not only does it have built-in storage to help you carry around any small trekking supplies, but it’s also stretchy and features LuxtremeTM, which is a built-in liner that’s sweat-wicking and feels cool against the skin. To ensure this piece can handle everything from morning mist to unplanned precipitation, it also features water-repellent fabric.
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Cargo Super-High-Rise Hiking Tight 25”
This is a must-add-to-cart for any outdoor enthusiast looking for a fashion-forward yet functional piece to add to their activewear collection. Built with the storage capacity of cargo pants, these hiking tights are made from abrasion-resistant fabric that has a four-way stretch. They are a stylish closet staple designed to fit your active, outdoor lifestyle.
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Water-Repellent Hiking Short 8”
These shorts are extremely versatile because they’re specially designed to go in and out of the water with you. Details such as a fabric that offers four-way stretch; is abrasion-resistant, and water-repellent, you can make any detour a welcome one. These shorts also feature a waistband drawcord (that can be tucked inside), as well as secure cargo and zippered pockets.
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Water-Repellent Hiking Short Sleeve Shirt
Say hello to your new favourite hiking essential that will keep you cool and dry no matter the trail conditions. If you’re looking to get outdoors, look no further than this four-way stretch and an abrasion-resistant, short-sleeve shirt, designed with large mesh underarm panels that ensure you don’t overheat as you climb.
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Ripstop Packable Hiking Anorak
What makes this hiking anorak the ideal outerwear for hiking is its packability. It can tuck into its own mesh fabric pocket to ensure easy transport when conditions change. Plus, convenient zippered exterior pockets help hide your phone.
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Classic Fit Hiking Pants 30”
Style and comfort become one in these classic-fit hiking pants. These are a must-have for any outdoor occasion because they feature five useful pockets, and include integrated panels of stretchy, abrasion-resistant fabric. They’re also water-resistant and have a back yoke that is perforated for thermal regulation.
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Ventilated Hiking Long Sleeve Shirt
Designed to keep you warm during cooler outdoor hiking adventures, this long-sleeve is made with stretchy fabric that’s both sweat-wicking and fast-drying. If you’re travelling with any baggage, the shirt’s flat, strategically placed seams also help keep backpack straps from causing friction on the skin, while the mesh underarm gusset offers mobility and ventilation.
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LiftOS Hiking Backpack 25L
If you only take one accessory on your next hiking trip, let it be this one. Lululemon’s innovative backpack features LiftOS technology, which feels like a helping hand by recalibrating weight distribution and relieving pressure points.
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Patch Logo Crossbody Bag
This crossbody bag is lightweight, water-repellent, and has adjustable shoulder straps to help you customize the fit to your desired length. An exterior zippered pocket also secures all your valuables, while an easy-access exterior pocket lets you reach all your essentials quickly and efficiently.
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Water bottle Crossbody
Stay hydrated during your next hiking excursion with this portable crossbody designed to keep your water bottle secure and hands-free. Featuring fabric that is water-repellant, this crossbody can also be cinched closed to allow to ensure your water bottle is secure. Plus, it has exterior pockets to store any additional valuables.
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Power Stride Hiking Crew Sock
Stay cozy and comfortable all hike long thanks to these Power Stride Hiking Crew Socks. They have fabric that is knit in a mesh gradient at the top of the foot to ensure increased micro ventilation at the sole. As well, cushioning at the base of the arch helps create a shaped fit.
Nike is taking Lululemon to court over the later company’s Mirror home workout platform.
Nike says that in 1983, it invented and filed a patent for a device capable of determining a runner’s speed, distance travelled, the time elapsed and calories lost. It’s using this particular patent and other patents, plus the company’s existing mobile apps, as grounds for infringement, according to CNBC.
Since the Lululemon Mirror is, well, a mirror, it doesn’t track running-related stats, which has been Nike’s niche in the fitness space for years. My guess is that perhaps the sports giant is considering getting into the ‘smart-mirror-home-workout-space,’ so it’s trying to stop Lululemon before it takes over the likely small market.
In the CNBC report, Lululemon said “The patents in question are overly broad and invalid. We are confident in our position and look forward to defending it in court.”
I’ve been hands-on with the Mirror (stay tuned for my impressions), and it feels more akin to replicating the home workout programs companies like Peleton and Echelon offer, but with a mirror instead of a stationary bike or a treadmill. Since Nike doesn’t really operate in this space, this lawsuit seems misplaced in a sense.
Lululemon also bought Mirror in 2020, so if Nike wanted to, it could have purchased the startup itself.
Source: CNBC