Velvet trousers? They’re all tinsel, yule logs and Cadbury Heroes no? They’re Christmas trousers and even then, only as a knowing comedic nod to the festivities. Or are velvet trousers are still the preserve of a certain kind of Middle-Englander? You know the sort, Land… Read More
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A man of specific tastes and a mastery of panache
Stockholm store Tres Bien is now punting its in-house line out to other retailers, the first notable target is London’s Goodhood. The line mirrors the same stripped back, Scandi minimal approach common to most of the brands Tres Bien carries in store. If you were… Read More
Just another drone
Interesting to see eastern influences permeating the robustly London centric brand YMC. Looking like something you’d expect from Blue Blue Japan, Tigre Brocante or orSlow, these ‘Hand Me down’ trousers have got the Boro influence, if not stitched, then certainly printed, all over them. I… Read More
You don’t just buy these. Unless, you do.
Dudes don’t just go and buy bracelets like this, they acquire them. As part of a barter deal from a farmer in Lagos perhaps. Discovered in the footwell of a borrowed kayak. Found amongst the detritus of a long abandoned Venice Beach campsite. This kind… Read More
Ornithological specificity
So, how long have you been looking for a pair of kicks in ‘egret’? Now, I don’t want to confuse. Egret in this instance refers to the silvery shade of a baby eagle, and not, as I imagine many of you assumed, a more chalky… Read More
As much sense as anything Mike Pence has ever gurgled from his yaphole
My immediate thought was, ‘this patch looks pretty weird’. Then I wondered what it meant? It’s a white, Wood Wood sweatshirt with a sewn on patch that sort of says, “I miss“, “pre-i“, “brai“. A statement which (in this political era of feelings relentlessly ‘Trumping’… Read More





