Horween Bison Front Pocket Wallet

The wallet that fixes a problem you stopped noticing years ago.

Back pocket wallets wreck your posture and blow out your pants. This one is cut on a patented curve that actually matches the shape of a front pocket, so it lies flat and stays put instead of fighting you all day. Slim, an ounce and a half, and it still carries twelve cards and folded bills.

The leather

Horween of Chicago, tanning hides since 1908 and about as close to famous as a tannery gets. The hide is American bison, which is the toughest leather on this continent. It arrives with some stiffness in it and it looks better in year three than it does the day you open it.

Details

• Two styles: 3 card slots with an ID window, or 6 card slots
• Holds 12 cards, plus a full billfold and a stash pocket
• RFID blocking stitched into the lining
• 5 by 3.4 by 3/8 inches, 1.6 ounces

Who makes it

Rogue Industries, in Standish, Maine. Michael Lyons started it in 2007 because he was tired of sitting on a fat back-pocket wallet, taught himself leatherwork, and came out of it holding two patents on a front pocket shape. The workshop runs on solar.

I did not make this and I am not going to imply I did. What I can tell you is it is made in the United States by a shop that puts its own name on it and backs it for two years, which is the same standard I hold the turquoise to.

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