The Weejun
I realise it's been some time since I posted on The Weejun but this has mainly been due to an extended trip to Buenos Aires & Montevideo. The seasons being upside down meant the search was on for classic leather and suede which led me to source some fantastic items that I will be posting on …
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Update: The LL Bean Suede Field Coat was too big for me is now on Ebay for 1p! I used to post a regular feature called "What's The Weejun been buying on eBay?" but in the last six months or so I've tried to steer clear of the obsession that trawling ebay can become. Sometimes, however things get …
"Later in the year it may be necessary to furnish some of these garments with buttons instead of zippers" War rationing was heavy on zippers I guess! Still printing in colour though in 1942.... …
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Part time contributor and West Coast Ivy Look aficionado Fred, seen here modelling hard to find knee length argyles with bermudas and weejuns. A great look if you can pull it off. I like how the photographer managed to capture a vintage look in the colour process and even put the LIFE magazine logo …
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Always a second string label, Manhattan nevertheless produced some really nice shirts once upon a time. I have a deadstock one that was too big for Herb that is a fantastic scarlet and yellow plaid oxford with all the trimmings. The shirt in this 1960 advertisement has a an odd spread collar …
Looking very studious is the young Herb …
Unlike the Gant Yale Co-op post, this one has a positive update! Met with The Ivy Smugglers this morning deep into enemy beardy workwear territory in Shoreditch (think Williamsburg if you're over the other side) to pick up three of the five of these shirts I ordered a few weeks back. So, it's …
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"The Shoe With the Open Collar Feeling" Here's an interesting ad from circa 1960 by the Brown Shoe Company of St Louis for their Roblee Ivy Bucks. Interestingly these are sporting the gray brown micro sole that became ubiquitous in use by english shoemakers in the late 60s until the 80s when it …
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REALITY CHECK UPDATE: Herb Lester and I went into the Regent St Gant Store today to check out the new arrival Yale Co-op shirts. Sure enough, there was a large round table set up in the main doorway, with all the shirts laid out in folded piles and a a number of smug looking staff, who presumably …
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