Like many people I know obsessed with the look, I'm always buying stuff out of season. When things are rare, old stock or even just plain old limited edition; well what can you do but buy 'em up and store 'em away for the metaphorical rainy (or perhaps sunny) day? Unusual then, that I found this … [Read more...] about 1960s Deadstock Bleeding Madras Shirts – A Nice Little Haul
Weejunisms
In Praise of O’Connells
A few days ago the Buffalo Times did a great piece on the modern day 56 year overnight success of Buffalo's greatest landmark, O'Connells. Once the preserve of those 'in the know' O'Connells is now about as great a niche online success as it's possible to find. Traditional Meets The Modern … [Read more...] about In Praise of O’Connells
I Took My Own Advice: 1970s Tan Bass Weejuns
Shopping Your Own Closet Really Works! Last week I wrote about 'shopping your own closet'. Well, I thought I'd take my own advice today and start digging around in some of those carefully preserved items way back at the bottom of stacks of shoe boxes in what's supposed to be my office. As everyone … [Read more...] about I Took My Own Advice: 1970s Tan Bass Weejuns
J Keydge – Here to Stay? Could Be After All.
Two years ago, almost to the month, I wrote a piece about how the J Keydge jacket was a triumph of existence in spite of itself. That it seemed - from the outside at least - that it might be a miracle if the company survived into another season. In early 2012, with virtually no web presence … [Read more...] about J Keydge – Here to Stay? Could Be After All.
Bedford Incident Grenfell Jacket
The other day I was re watching the Bedford Incident with Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier. It's a fine movie in its own right but always fun to watch movies with some clothes spotting potential. Poitier plays a photo journalist in the Life Magazine mould who's airlifted onto Widmark's warship. … [Read more...] about Bedford Incident Grenfell Jacket
The Ivy Is Always Greener Online – Beware of Coveting Thine Own Stuff
Loafer Envy Out East I was out East having coffee with my pal Herb Lester last week and noticed he was wearing what I thought was a pair of vintage double-soled Weejuns - those with the heft and solidity of the loafers worn by William Holden in that much republished image of him in NY. But no, this … [Read more...] about The Ivy Is Always Greener Online – Beware of Coveting Thine Own Stuff
Ivy Humour
Gant Yale Eats Itself.
Every season for the past few years the Gant Yale brand has produced the odd nice shirt in a good fabric and with the lamentable logo on the locker loop at least self coloured or obscure. Today I popped into the Regent St store to see in person what some of the fabrics are like in this season's … [Read more...] about Gant Yale Eats Itself.