subject: Mens Fashion Accessories - Hip Flasks [print this page] In the cold of winter, there is nothing more stimulating that a swig of quality brandy, whiskey, or cognac from your hip flask. It is the perfect blast to give you a lift and change an otherwise boring uneventful day to a boring uneventful day with a little buzz.
Hip flasks have been around almost as long as there has been a desire to drink whiskey in inappropriate places, which is quite a long time. Historically they were made of metal, usually silver or pewter. Modern hip flasks are made of metal or soemtimes plastic to avoid detection by metal detectors.
They are curved so they can be hidden in the rear pants pocket and not show. That is how they got their name from the placement of their hiding place on the body. In the olden days of prohibition in the US, women wore hip flasks under their skirts against one thigh, held in place with a garter belt. When a wild woman pulled up her skirt to offer you a drink from her hip flask, not only where you happy to have a taste, but you also got a bit of a free show of what was under her dress.
Prohibition was eventually repealed because all it did was make people more crazy to obtain alcohol and bring the criminal element, the likes of Al Capone, and his cronies into the business of gambling, prostitution, and bootlegging.
There are many events where you would be unlikely to find a bottle of liquor, like at a boring church social function, but you can always excuse yourself to the men's room , take a snort from your hip flask, and return to put up with the tedium of the crowd. Guys have also been known to spike the punch with alcohol with the helpful use of hip flasks.
Hip flasks come in many types that are engravable. There is a place for the engraving and they are also covered in many types of material such as the traditional plaid (great for scotch whiskey), brown and black leather, leather mixed with plaid, and made from plain stainless steel, ribbed steel, banded steel, and highly polished steel.
There are even special hip flasks for golfers that are not carried in the pocket but attached to the golf bags by a leather holder/cover that also has some golf tees, ball markers, and a divot replacement tool. Naturally, any golfer knows that right after you hit a bad shot in golf, you want a strong shot of whiskey to soothe your nerves before you take on the next challenging shot.
Even if your golf buddies are tee-totalers there are plenty of chances on the golf course to sneak off to get a snort out of your hp flask. Just hit a ball in the woods and pretend to go deep into the woods to find it. Once you are out of sight, it's bottom up, hip hip hooray, and cheers my friend. You may end up with a terrible score for the golf round but who cares!
