Olive fatigue pants from the Workaday line, available at Drinkwater’s Cambridge. Here are a few examples of how you can wear them: Daily Wardrobe with Daiki Suzuki. I prefer boots and a chambray shirt myself.
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The knit bedford jackets are back this season in argyle patterns. This would be a tough piece to wear, and is likely something that your kids would pull out of the closet 20 years from now and laugh the same way we laugh now about our parents’ clothing from the 70’s and 80’s (my dad wore a baby blue tuxedo with a ruffled front shirt to his wedding…).
Context has it in the navy/black version and Hejfina in the black/grey. There is another version in a brown/green, but I don’t have any good pictures of it yet.
Examples on how to pair up navy colored sportcoats from Men’s Ex (click the image to see the full size). As shown earlier, navy can go with just about everything.
These were posted on styleforum.net a few months back, but I completely forgot about them until the Apolis guys updated their site with them last month.
These saved my ass in the 100F+ temperatures that Seattle had this last week. The fabrics are light and breathe fairly well (and even better than my linen shirts).
They’re sold out at a few places, but Drinkwater’s Cambridge has a few left in the blue/yellow plaid version on sale for about $110. Give them a call to place an order in the next few days, as they’ll probably go quick.
Looking for a store that sells Engineered Garments online in the U.S.? There are not many: Odin, Barney’s, and Hejfina (which just got in their first shipment).
The reason why the list is so small is that stores that signed up with the line after the SS2007 season are not allowed to sell directly online. As a customer, I sometimes get a bit frustrated over this policy as it makes it more difficult to track down or purchase certain pieces but I can understand their standpoint in trying to limit this.
A few retailers do try to sneak by this issue by selling through other means (sorry, not naming them here), and of course Yoox will occasionally get in a few items from past seasons. The other and more expensive alternatives are to go through ordering from Japan or one of the European stockists like Oi Polloi or The Bureau.
The two on the left are Persols, the upper right are the Selima Rivington’s for J.Crew, and the lower right pair are Ray-Bans from a year or two back. After using the first three frequently over the past several months, I feel I can honestly say that the lenses in Ray-Bans definitely do suck. They’ll probably be retired next year to be replaced with a pair from Randolph’s Engineering.
My ranger mocs from Yuketen have so far been treating me well after a couple months of wear, and they’re much more comfortable than the J.Crew desert boots that I rotate between.
They definitely know how to make a good crepe soled shoe. On mention of which, the little bird on twitter told me Oi Polloi will be putting up some of these boots for sale on their site on Friday. They’ll probably go quick…
Update: Oi Polloi has them up on their site now – http://www.oipolloi.com/brands/Yuketen-100.html
I believe that both Context and Farinelli’s have sold all of their preorders for the special Filson x Apolis Activism briefcase, but it looks like you might still have a chance to get one straight from the source: http://www.apolisactivism.com/?event=startPreorder
Context also has some great interviews on their site concerning the work and ideas behind the bag: http://www.contextclothing.com/eye_to_eye.php
Update 2: For the Canadians, Roden Gray is taking preorders as well.
I think these two are the rest of the knit vests for this season. Unlike the argyle versions, these are a bit more safe to wear and would look great layered under one of the Bedford or Andover jackets. Images from nalu.co.jp.
