J.Crew – 20% off everything online now through Memorial Day. Use the code SUMMER.
Hejfina – Prices are now marked down 25% – 50% off. There is still a good selection of Engineered Garments left.
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Alden Tan Bluchers
Alden bluchers on the Plaza last – good for anything from chinos to denim. These are a stock model (#2816) so most Alden dealers should be able to get them for you.
I’ll be honest, I’m having trouble working this cap into my usual outfits. It seems like it would only be appropriate on the deck of a boat.
Woolrich Woolen Mills Mariner Cap
From the WWM Lookbook for S/S2009
A selection of scans from the MHL Japanese catalog for S/S2009. My favorite piece shown was the yellow windbreaker, but it seems very hard to find – perhaps it was not put into production?
MHL Cover
I couldn’t decide on which fabric band I liked more, so I just bought both. They’re are made in the U.S. for Engineered Garments and despite being reported on other websites, these hats are made from linen, not straw. Does anyone know the maker?
Engineered Garments Linen Fedoras
They should be great for the sunny weather that Seattle is starting to get.
You can still find some at Hejfina and most Barney’s locations. FYI if it helps, a size large in these fedoras is about a 7 3/8 US hat size.
Woolrich Woolen Mills Tote Bag
In a recent issue of Brutus (a Japanese clothing magazine), there is a short feature with Daiki Suzuki of Engineered Garments showing off what could be considered to be his signature outfit of just a simple buttondown shirt, fatigue pants, and old sneakers. Variations of the combo follow.
Unless you want to read about tan lines and how to pick the perfect white t-shirt, I’d advise you to save your 10 dollars. They did a very poor job with this edition and even old ads were recycled.
Esquire Big Black Book - Spring 2009 edition
The image is from Cold Track Days flickr stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/coldtrackdays/
New Balance Classics are now available in all different sorts of obnoxious colorways. I chose the blue and orange version.
New Balance Classics - U420
While browsing a local bookstore this afternoon, I came across an interesting book with a collection of cartoons found in early Playboy magazines. It was published in 1959.
The Playboy Cartoon Album, 1959
Some excerpts from the forward written by Hugh Hefner:
Peter Arno, of The New Yorker, has been mistakenly credited with the creation of the one-line cartoon caption and if, in fact, this wonderful form of graphic wit is somewhat older than the early Twenties, when TNY first saw the light of day, it’s real popularity can be traced from when, and Arno and his fellow New Yorker cartoonists are most responsible for that. Before them, cartoons were more to be illustrated jokes with captions two, four, or more lines long (of the He: She: He: She: variety) and usually a very dull business, with the drawings quite incidental and often unnecessary to the humor. The New Yorker changed all that. The drawing became the thing and a single, pointed caption (and sometimes no caption at all) was all that was needed to tell the story…
… A magazine says a good deal about itself in the cartoons it publishes. You’ll find no drawings about Mom’s new hat, Junior’s report card or balancing the family budget here, for Playboy is a magazine for the young, urban male. The cartoons, therefore, are urbane, sophisticated and quite masculine in viewpoint – a refreshing change, we think, from the female-dominated Togetherness stressed by so many publications today. Playboy is edited to entertain, so most of the cartoons are about the fun and frolicsome side of life…”
From skimming through the pages, you can see that sexual humor has not changed much at all in the past 50 years. I’ll post a few scans sometime soon.