Foppish Americana/Anglo-Saxon inspired goods from Needles. Images from Nalu.
Category: Men’s Clothing (page 60 of 74)
Victim is another nice Japanese brand that makes modern copies and reproductions of older garments (and at more affordable prices). The highlights of this season include their leather rider jacket made for them by Vanson, monkey boots from Trickers, and hiking boots from Diemme.
Lookbook images for the FW2009 collection from Waste(twice).
October’s issue of Free & Easy was based around an odd theme title of “Fashionable Jeans? FUCK!”. I think something was mistranslated somewhere.
Mainland Boots. Handmade on vintage machines in New Zealand.
Little has changed since John Brown started in 1890. In fact we are still using a Puritan wax thread sewing machine dated 1895!
The heart of our boot making process is the brass screwing machines, one of these is dated 1916! That is our secret, this process is so old the emerging footwear manufacturing nations i.e. China, Vietnam and India cannot copy our product because they do not have the equipment.
From the descriptions they use on their site, it sounds like they use something similar to a blake stitch with either nails or brass screws. The pairs shown above were made for Nepenthes.
MHL FW2009 has finally arrived at South Willard. We’ve been needing a U.S. based stockist for awhile.
Browsing through recent entries on Paul Smith’s blog led me to this photography book due to be released soon, titled the Gentlemen of Bacongo. It covers the Sapeurs, a subculture of dandy men that love to dress up in fine clothing despite living in near poverty conditions in Africa. I hope to have a copy as soon as it’s available.
More reading on the Sapeurs:
Their canon of saints reads: Pierre Cardin, Roberto Cavalli, Dior, Fendi, Ferré, Gaultier, Gucci, Jourdan, Miyake, Prada, Saint Laurent, Versace, Yamamoto. A typical ballad runs: “Listen my love. On our wedding day/The label will be Torrente/The label will be Giorgio Armani/The label will be Daniel Hechter/The label for the shoes will be J. M. Weston.” Brussels, their shopping mecca, is referred to in Congolese as Lola, meaning paradise.
Before bling and ghetto fabulous, before the dawn of the metrosexual, Congolese men have been pushing the limits of outlandish fashion and heterosexual male vanity, roaming the streets like walking advertisements for the world’s top labels. These fashionistas were donning fur coats and gaudy jewels as early as the 1970s, when American hip-hop star Sean Combs was still accessorizing with a grade-school lunchbox.
“The white man may have invented clothes, but we turned it into an art,” said Congolese musician King Kester Emeneya, who helped popularize the Sape movement with the legendary Papa Wemba, who is often called the pope of the Sapes. Emulated and admired by a generation of African musicians, Wemba once called fashion his religion, advising devotees that what they wore was more important than school.
And many great pictures are available here: “The Congolese Sape”
You must watch until at least the last clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYf5YPNnfRY
Wooster: What on earth is the matter Jeeves?
Jeeves: I apologize sir. It was unforgivable of me.
Jeeves: It’s just that Mr. Little’s tie, it has little horse shoes on it.
Wooster: Oh yes, I noticed that. Hmm…
Jeeves: It’s sometimes difficult to shrug these things off sir.
Bureau posted pictures this afternoon of some new Maine guide boots being made for them by Yuketen. Are these some of the new goodyear welted versions that were announced earlier this year?
While nice and no doubt comfortable, there is something crude about attaching a sole meant for a work boot onto a shoe meant for the great outdoors. I think a much better choice would have been to use something like Vibram’s stalker sole, which has both a good reliable tread and a low visible profile.