Wesco, an Oregon based boot making company, has a series of short videos on Vimeo showing parts of its manufacturing process along with its recrafting and custom fit services. I’m hoping to take a trip down there next spring to get measured for a pair of Boss boots.
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Created by Anna Victoria Best, who also took part in a series of themed shoots showcasing a selection of the pieces.
The first shipments for fall from Engineered Garments are now getting to stores both in the U.S and Japan:
- If you’re in Seattle, Jack Straw received Bedford jackets in navy wool serge and brown corduroy, shawl collar vests, and 19th century button down shirts. (I snapped the picture of them above)
- Context just uploaded [...]
Pictures of Barbour’s fall/winter collections are now showing up online through its retail partners – aside from the classic pieces and a few of the new designs, most of it is very ho hum or generic and it feels like the design teams forgot what makes Barbour Barbour. At first glance, some of the [...]
There is a great video on youtube showing parts of the work involved in making a pair of Julian Boots.
Related post: Julian Boots in Free & Easy
Cool things at the Field House garage sale that I wish I bought…
RRL mud stained hats.
Totem pole decorations.
Bronze art deco eagle bookends… I’ve been eying these for what seems like years. Still too pricey for an impulse buy though.
Getting into the spirit of summer with one my favorite issues of Free & Easy published back in 2009.
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Industry of All Nations strikes me as an interesting company – still a bit under the radar, it is putting out goods that have been influenced or sourced from communities around the world, building on the idea that the new luxury is in knowing who made your items. The colorful jeans are from India, [...]
The Trad on GTH pants:
A word of warning, though. While you can, and should, wear these trousers with a sport coat, they are not to be worn to work. These are occasion trousers and with that comes the responsibility of time and place. The time is summer. The place is near water and within arm’s [...]
Now available online – there are several new designs this season to complement the mainstays and the reversible Brookline quilted jacket (with polka dots), the snowflake shawl knit jacket, and down body vest will be ones to look out for.
Update: Nepenthes.co.jp now has a higher-res version.
A few items can be previewed over on [...]
Jeremy Hackett offers some suggestions on what to wear if you find yourself in Henley this week for the famous rowing event:
Even if you are not in the stewards’ enclosure, it’s fun to enter into the spirit of the day, so leave the T-shirt and jeans at home. First off, I suggest that a navy [...]
The Strand Magazine, published in 1902, reporting on the newest fad of the time – the Panama hat:
One hundred pounds for a straw hat! Enough with which to take a three months’ holiday, enough to keep your son a year at college, enough to buy a small farm. And yet so astute a financier as [...]
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