There was a time when fanny packs were little more than a goofy holdout from the 80s. That changed as they started dressing up fanny packs to look more like contemporary fashion pieces. They even started it calling ‘hip packs,’ which is admittedly a cooler name. However, fashion has always been cyclical and it may be high time we made the waist-worn bag goofy again. This Igloo WWE Stone Cold Steve Austin Smoking Skull Championship Fanny Pack goes a long way towards making that happen.
Like any hip pack, it’s a small bag designed to be worn on the waist like a belt, allowing you to take a small amount of gear on the go. Unlike them, it’s styled to look like Stone Cold’s signature WWE championship belt, so you can walk around like a beer-chugging, middle-finger-raising WWE superstar from 1999.
The Igloo WWE Stone Cold Steve Austin Smoking Skull Championship Fanny Pack is, basically, a hip pack styled to look like Stone Cold’s custom championship belt from the Attitude Era. That means, it resembles the shape of your typical title belt, which gives it a larger and rounder main compartment than the usual wide and narrow pouch of your standard hip pack, so you definitely look like you’re wearing some sort of championship belt any time you walk around with this on.
They recreated not just the shape of the belt, they also reproduced the elaborate skull art found on the custom title belt. Instead of being etched on metal, though, the art is printed on gold tone PU patches, with detailed imagery of the smoking skull, the chaotic typography, and various other detailed elements. It gets a large patch in the middle, as well as multiple smaller patches along the belt itself, all decked in the same Austin 3:16 theme like the original championship title.
The Igloo WWE Stone Cold Steve Austin Smoking Skull Championship Fanny Pack has a shell cut in 420D polyester fabric, so it should be plenty durable for everyday use. Inside the main compartment, it gets a liner that’s not just lightweight, but also insulated, which means you can use this as a soft cooler for keeping stuff chilled or warmed for longer. The exact volume capacity isn’t listed, although they do say it’s sized to fit up to four cans of your favorite beers (and keep them cool), so you can walk around like a badass from the 90s with beers ready to pull out at a moment’s notice.
It comes with an adjustable waist strap with a snap buckle, so you can wear it comfortably whether you have a Stone Cold or a Big Show waist line, while a slip pocket on the back of the main pouch lets you stash small accessories. Aside from the fanny pack, they’re also releasing a 1L insulated beer mug with the same Stone Cold Smoking Skull theme, although, you have to admit, it’s not as cool, since The Texas Rattlesnake didn’t exactly walk around chugging his beer from a fancy mug.
The Igloo WWE Stone Cold Steve Austin Smoking Skull Championship Fanny Pack is available now, priced at $44.99.
