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National Geographic
The trees were bleeding with a wonderful smell—
Silvina Ocampo
Keep up The CarapaceTM — you can Get Lost for days.
Mummy Hood Nesting Forest
The paragraph on ticks is disappointingly brief.
Joyce Carol Oates
Remember to supply with plenty of fluid, as, for obvious reasons, they won’t be able to get this for themselves.
Anonymous
‘Mummy Hood Nesting Forest’
by
David Steans
Commissioned by Primary, Nottingham, 2022
Website
Ralph Mackenzie – Website Development
Stef Sadler – 3D Animation
David Steans – Concept, Design, Graphics
Music
Alice Miller – Guitar
Rosie Parsons – Additional Audio Recordings
David Steans – Arrangement, Recording, Laughter, Additional Flies
Benjamin Hurd – Mix Engineer
Trip Out with the Hippy Baggage TM Luggage Collection. Ultra-Tech engineering, Hi-Spec Performance Fabrics, ingenious volumetric construction design and Counter-Culture-inspired Street Style. Three supreme-quality field-tested Outdoor Bags are the centrepiece of the range – the HB Rucksack, the HB Backpack, and the HB Field Bag.
Each HB Bag is made from high weather-resistance PU Fabrics, Polymer-welted and triple-stitched to ensure your Gear stays Dry and Free of Insects. Hippy Baggage Luggage is fully Splash-Proof, offering protection from Psychic Showers.
All MH Products are designed in accordance with a packable Nesting storage system that means every bit of your MH Stuff – fits inside every other bit of your MH Stuff. Hippy Baggage Luggage is no exception. The Field Bag nests inside the Backpack, the Backpack nests inside the Rucksack, and the Rucksack can nest inside itself — when the Rucksack’s ribs are removed it folds down to a fraction of its size.
With multiple strapping options, full-cover hoods, dozens of lockable outer pockets, discrete inner compartments, atmosphere-treated partition sections, and stylish detailing throughout the range (including metal-cast Hippy Baggage-branded aglets), this is one Trip You Might Not Want to Come Back From.
Some Trips You Don’t Come Back From. Make sure you’re prepared for every eventuality with The CarapaceTM. A high-performance all-environment Outdoors coat that will stand up in any situation yet is adaptable enough to wear to parks and leisure trails. The CarapaceMHNF is so functional it has features you didn’t know you needed, with Technical Design inspired by Tent and Rigging Construction and styling based on Woodland creatures like the Tick and the Louse. Engineered to shield the wearer from the most forbidding conditions while offering comfort and breathability, The Carapace is a mobile shell. You can Get Lost for days.
The Carapace arrives in two versions, a full-length Outdoor trench and 3/4 Length Outdoor Fishtail with Scalloped Anterior Fin. Colouring takes cues from Arachnids and Insects: reddy-brown Dorsal Shell/Abdomen and faint white-pink Soft Underbelly (a reinforced quilted placket protects your Thorax). Rectilinear pockets flank this section, but that’s not all. Each Version is equipped with a full array of Item-specific pockets and pouches, including a sheafed First-Aid Kit, individual Tab pockets and elasticated pouches around the Stomach. The pockets are durable elastalane backed with a thin layer of rubberised canvas and feature a translucent Splash-Proof Cover made from Recycled Polyethylene – perfect for safely storing a map, or a phone, or map, or phone, or map, or phone, or map, or phone, or map, or phone, or map, or phone.
All MH Products are designed in accordance with a packable Nesting storage system that means every bit of your MH Stuff – fits inside every other bit of your MH Stuff. The Carapace is no exception. The quilted Placket is fully detachable and concertinas into a Quiver sack with lightweight strap. The Coat rolls up inside the placket, and you’re ready to sling the sack over your shoulder. The CarapaceTM nests inside the Hippy BaggageTM Field Bag, Backpack, or Rucksack.
When The CarapaceTM is fully zipped the stiff, triple-stitched fabric forms a guard-piece around the lower face, pulling the hood-brim back from the wearer’s eyes. It slips on like a costume. The tent-inspired design comes with a detachable screen, so no need to worry about visibility in the rain.
Some trips you don’t come back from. Our new Display ModelTM tent is extravagant enough to show off inside. The unique two-door design of the tent opening echoes the hood-brim of The CarapaceTM coat, taking cues from Woodland creatures such as the Tick or Louse. Each lidded entrance flap has a sturdy brim canopy with fetching colour accents. The tent’s construction is rigged to withstand all weather conditions, and you can set up camp on any terrain with the Display Model’s weighted interlocking leg system. The legs are held fast with magnetised grub screws — kept in handy pouches when not in use — and can be locked together at different heights and angles, depending where you find yourself. The DM offers the widest range of pitching options of any consumer-grade tent.
Make room with The Display ModelMH — a tent so roomy you might get lost in it. Sleeping bag not included. Make room with the Mummy Hood Sleeper — a sleeping bag so roomy you might get lost in it. A tent inside a tent, the Mummy Hood is so capacious you might get lost in it, and comes equipped with Night Light. Put yourself on display.
All MH Products are designed in accordance with a packable Nesting storage system that means every bit of your MH Stuff – fits inside every other bit of your MH Stuff. The Display Model packs down easily inside the Hippy Baggage range Rucksack, or it can be carried separately.
Topping off the release is a newly remodelled version of our most popular trail shoe in a harmonious range-sensitive colour-way with heavy use of patented Mesh throughout. In addition to eye-catching branded buttons and decorative heel panel, the Go-SnapTM also features an innovative Mesh canopy trim inspired by the frilled zip-covers of the Hippy Baggage luggage range. The distinctive Mesh awning, unique to this edition, coupled with this shoe’s usual outsize vulcanised patch-stitching around Toe and Upper means the Go-Snap is near water-proof yet breathable and lightweight.