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Three long pieces on the weight on a child's back, the rules a bag has to satisfy at a gate, and the numbers that decide which size to buy.
Every figure quoted in these pieces comes from a named public source, listed at the foot of the piece that uses it and again on how we update the catalogue, with the date it was read.
Fifteen per cent of the child is the number two professional bodies keep repeating. What it works out to at six, at ten and at fifteen, how to measure it with a bathroom scale in under a minute, and what actually comes out of the bag when it is over.
The stadium rule is twelve by six by twelve, and the sentence that turns bags away at the gate is the one after it. What the published policy actually says, why a school district rule is a different animal, and how to tell a bag that will pass from one that will not.
An age on a label is a guess at a measurement anybody can take in ten seconds. How to measure the back that has to carry the bag, what a litre figure is really telling you, why a laptop diagonal is not a width, and when to buy the next size up.
Every abshoo height, every colour
Every size, print and colourway in the abshoo line-up sits behind this button, with the price from our last update against each one.