Here’s a garment akin to the film series Sharknado, only with pockets. Pouchnado if you will. This is what happens when pockets attack. An inappropriate array of flaps on flaps on flaps. I’m all for having somewhere to stick your essentials. But I’m not that… Read More
All posts tagged “Kaptain Sunshine”
Sounds about right
Nothing pretentious to see here. There’s nothing pretentious about walking around Shoreditch. Being photographed, wearing an assortment of global casual-wear. Nothing pretentious at all. Nothing pretentious about cropping your head off the shots so they look a bit more arty. Nothing the least bit pretentious… Read More
Extremely realness
A short walk from the posh cafes, restaurants and chintz of gentrified Peckham, you’ll find the real Peckham. It’s Afro Caribbean, it’s Pakistani, it’s pound shops, it’s Sports Direct, it’s yams. This is what I’m about. You see, I’m real. I’m the realness. You’d have… Read More
A wardrobe of 100% classics revisited is looking a bit tired right now
This Kaptain Sunshine pullover parka is highly suggestive of the space cake, wind chimes and Ozric Tentacles lifestyle. Don’t subscribe to the Japanese and Korean post-heritage swing towards eccentric layering? Immune to their ebullient approach to patterning? You’re in a tough spot. Frankly, whether you… Read More
Handling anything you pour into your glug-balloon
When the weather turns tropical, the societal norm insists men should sit in pub gardens and consume significant volumes of alcoholic fluid. Whether they feel like it or not. Cultural pressure to be gregarious, on-form and at the very least, reasonably social, is high. And… Read More
A barbarous way with patchwork
Either this is the garb of an Osakan swaglord, or the gimmicky get-up of your ‘crazy’ uncle at a family barbecue? Difficult to say really. To the undereducated, this bellows bad jokes, under-cooked lamb chops and stories about, “puffing on the wacky baccy.” Those in… Read More





