Shimoda Launches Women's Collection Backpacks

Addressing a really actual however just about ignored want felt by feminine photographers, Shimoda Designs is providing 5 of their hottest and requested pack sizes outfitted with a brand new women-specific harness and an unique teal colorway. The Shimoda Women’s Collection consists of female-friendly designs primarily based on the Shimoda Explorer V2 and Shimoda Motion X V2 fashions.

“After providing a number of girls’s strap choices for the final 4 years, and persevering with to work with our crew of feminine advisors on refining the design and match, we lastly had all the pieces essential to create a full girls’s assortment,” mentioned Peter Waisnor, vp for Shimoda Designs and Tenba on the MAC Group.

For a fast tour of the Shimoda Girls’s Collection, try this YouTube video.

In different information introduced concurrently, Shimoda additionally up to date their Action X series and launched new Core Units and equipment.

Picture backpacks within the Shimoda Girls’s Collection characteristic a harness system designed particularly for ladies. The adjustable waist belt could be shortened or lengthened by about 2.4 inches for higher match and cargo distribution. The brand new characteristic permits wearers to be extra snug by transferring weight off their shoulders and immediately onto their hips.

Moreover, the Girls’s Tech Straps are configured to curve round and away from the chest space whereas being barely smaller than standard inventory shoulder straps. The twin sternum straps eradicate uncomfortable strain factors throughout the center of the chest and supply two pockets simply the proper measurement to retailer small electronics, keys or different small objects.

In case you’re questioning in regards to the identify, Shimoda is a metropolis close to the tip of the Izu Peninsula in Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture, about 2.5 hours south of Tokyo by prepare. Town holds a distinguished spot in American historical past because the touchdown place in 1854 for a few of Commodore Perry’s Black Ships that opened Japan to US commerce. Shizuoka Prefecture is typically known as “Japan’s Riviera.”

—Jon Sienkiewicz