Showing up to a party or a restaurant with your wine in a brown paper bag from the liquor store is no way to impress. Bringing it in a fake violin case, however, is a different story.

Threaten your enemies and hassle shopkeepers for protection money on the way if you like – if you’re all dressed up, but nowhere near a concert hall, everyone will just assume you’re a 1930’s gangster.

The leather, velvet-lined case actually raises more questions than it answers, however, such as:

• Is velvet a good insulator? (And will it deal well with condensation?);
• During the prohibition, do you think they carried booze around like this? (And were there ever tense moments between drunks and mobsters?); and
• Why does the online shop sell them by the dozen?

But we like it. Especially the ** LIQUOR NOT INCLUDED ** disclaimer. You need to spell these things out. Like, who wants to mislead the Mob?

Violin Bottle Carrier [via Liquor Snob]