Bills will not fall out due to gravity and they are more secure than in a lined leather wallet, but they are not as secure as they would be in a fasten or Velcro wallet. My inspection of the wallet proved that to be absolutely true. According to their site the bill pocket is lined with a non-slip coating. I compared my fully loaded (6 credit card sized cards, some money, and my ID) with an empty “regular” wallet and the Big Skinny was less than half its size.īut thinness was not all the Big Skinny offered. The difference between the Big Skinny Multi Pocket and a conventional wallet in terms of size is absolutely staggering. I ordered instead the Multi Pocket (which was a comparably lardy 1/8” while the “Super Skinny” was listed as less than that). The model I ordered is not their “thinnest” wallet.
I live in the same state that the wallet is made, so it was not as if the Flash had delivered my purchase. I ordered the wallet, a Big Skinny Multi-Pocket for $23.95 (plus S&H) off the web and it arrived in two days. I have no doubt of their quality (I have a Tumi briefcase for work and it is simply amazing the beating that thing can take and still look amazing), but their price is so much greater than other wallets that I decided to see if I could find something else for less than a Benjamin. Tumi has a number of great designs, but like all things Tumi, they are incredibly expensive. I would spend a good deal for a wallet, especially if it did all of those things, but there is a limit (I am a firm believer in the “10%/100% rule”). It did have a “youthful” appearance, to put it best. No matter what I said about its durability and design-she was right (I am saying that here knowing there is virtually no chance she will see this). My wife derided the Maxpedition, calling it my “Spiderman” wallet.
#Spec ops t.h.e wallet jr license#
Fifth, I wanted an ID window (so I wouldn’t have to remove my license for ID checks when using credit cards).Ī nonessential element was a more “mature” look. Fourth, I detest trifold designs, so it had to be a bifold wallet. Third, after the Maxpedition wallet, it had to be small. First, it had to be waterproof (hence the need for a new wallet). As such, this is a review of the Big Skinny.įor me there were a few function requirements for my new wallet. For reasons explained below I chose the Big Skinny wallet over the All-Ett. It also uses thin material but instead of stacking cards one on top of each other, it achieves thinness by putting card pockets in on top of each other (think of a deck of cards versus plates on a dinner table). It is a traditional design with ultrathin materials and stitching. There is, unbeknownst to me, an arms race among a few companies for the title of “World’s Thinnest Wallet.” Among the competitors are two, both virtually identical in idea (superthin), but significantly different in design. It was so big that would not fit in my work pants back pocket, and that was before it was filled with contents.
It had a number of pockets and great features but it was huge. I recently ordered the Spartan from Maxpedition. spinoff from Spec-Ops) and all of the Maxpedition designs are certainly top shelf when it comes to durability, but they are massive. Wallets, even for those that do not know what “everyday carry” means, are truly essential, on-the-person items for almost everyone. One place where this distinction is seen in the highest contrast is in the area of wallets. Either way, the distinction is useful-there are the heavy duty EDCers and the minimalist EDCers.
Additionally there are some items, such as Peter Atwood’s keychain tools (a breathtaking masterpiece of design) that are both.
This is somewhat a false dichotomy because everyone that knows what “EDC” stands for likes and, in fact, seeks out durable things. These people concede that something is more likely to get carried everyday the better designed it is. For these people something that is EDC earns that distinction because its “overengineered.” The greater the heft, the more durable the materials, the more it seems to be appropriately labeled “EDC.” Then there is a much smaller contingent that seem to favor design over heft. There is a large contingent, perhaps the majority of people that stress the “carry” side of the equation. It seems that there is a real debate within the EDC community about what exactly it means to be EDC. Here is my little review of the wallet from EDCF (I wrote this quite a while ago, but most of it is still true): I ordered one about three years ago and though it is not a pretty as it used to be, it is still a super design. I know very little about the wallets out there right now, in large part because I found Big Skinny wallets, bought one, and never thought about them again. Big Skinny Wallets are on sale, many for 50% off.
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