The Look distilled. Comic it may be but Jason Schwartzman wears great chinos in Rushmore. The kind you just can’t find these days without them being peached, low waist, hipster, ‘vintage’ (read comedy trousers) or other such nonsense. The good old Halrin of Boston made some …
Sears winter catalogue - all the classic models even from this lower end maker. …
Vintage 2 Eyelet Tie Weejuns …
Too many times I have things I’d like to post on www.theweejun.com but I simply don’t have the time to write stuff into context. I’d thought a Tumblr site would be a good idea for all those items that never quite make it onto a fully fledged post, vintage adverts, one off images …
I've had a few enquiries recently from readers searching for tie up Bass Weejuns - a rare beast indeed and a different shoe entirely to the also rare Sportocasin (whose roots come directly from 1930s golf shoes). Sometime ago I posted a pair of already well worn 2 eyelet lace up Weejuns that I …
My long search of the LIFE magazine files also dug up these interesting photogaphs of an earlier college generation, some being outfitted for new wardrobe in local stores, others just general colleg life. The average date seems to be 1954 and the square format of most of them suggest the …
Looking back from 2012, this stuff looks great doesn't it? But let's not forget that history is constantly rewriting itself (and often written by those who don't really know) and laid down for future generations as gospel. (God help those reading some of FNB in 20 years' time!). In reality, if …
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Whilst not being any kind of beardy workwear East End type (and in fact in spite of that) I have always had a soft spot for classic American functional clothing. Back in the day it was LL Bean's catalogue that was prized and poured over just as much as Brooks Brothers or any other obscure US mail …
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Life photographer Bill Eppridge took a lot of images of country boy freshman Timothy Thompson, many more than were published in the 1964 article. The Life take on the piece was 'country boy out of his depth'. The following images are interesting as style refences to the reality of campus Ivy at …
It's easy to overlook the many attempts by American industry to turn oil refining byproducts into lucrative space age man made fabrics. We all know of Dacron, nylon, terylene etc when appliedto clothing but what is less well known and less remembered are the attempts to replace one of nature's most …
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