Visit our consignment store this month to browse a newly arrived collection by Ebbets Field Flannels. This Seattle-based sportswear brand creates authentic reproductions of mid-century Americana, most notably long-dead, obscure-league baseball apparel. EFF’s painstakingly-researched products recreate the golden age of American sportswear; when designs were elegant, and the materials natural and hardwearing. More sports historian…
Category: New Arrivals
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Hooked On Giorgio’s Emporio
Just as the narcotic gateway theory suggests that a few blasts on a “goof butt” will soon have you “dropping” H and forcibly relieving your grandmother of her pension, evil scheming Giorgio morally corrupts unsuspecting youth by means of his cutting edge Emporio Armani line. It all starts innocently enough of course – perhaps with…
Lanvin Suits, An Unofficial Lookbook
With its ludicrous posturing, and outlandish designs far removed from anything the average person in the street would even recognize as clothing, fashion is perhaps the creative industry most easily subjected to parody and ridicule. But if brands such as Comme des Garçons, Rick Owens, and even current “edgy” fashion darling Craig Green often send…
Featured Item – RL Purple Label Randall Cafe Racer
We’ve recently taken consignment of a pristine one-off example of the Ralph Lauren Purple Label Randall Jacket. This is a fine modern specimen of the “cafe racer” style of leather moto jacket that became iconic through association with the British Rocker motorcycle gangs of the early 1960s. Following the Teddy Boys of the ’50s, Cafe…
Year End Arrivals – Stefano Ricci
I’ll admit it, I get slightly nervous in most places where men in sharp suits are paid to open the door for me. But a visit to the Stefano Ricci boutique is on a whole new level: here I was a shifty and conspicuous interloper. Grabbing myself a furtive grope of the knitwear, caressing its sumptuous…
Brunello Cucinelli Fall / Winter Looks
The central Italian region of Umbria is one of the world’s great centers of cashmere production: the area between the provincial capital, Perugia, and nearby Lake Trasimeno is home to scores of small and medium sized manufacturers. Of these Brunello Cucinelli is by far the best known. In part, this is simply because he does…
Shirts by Year Zero London
Shopping for clothes on London’s Carnaby Street today is undoubtedly a more listless and pedestrian affair than in its modish 1960s heyday. Yet off the main thoroughfare a handful of side lanes have long held out as an enclave for less mainstream independent stores and designers. One of these is Year Zero London. Hello Kitty,…
New Arrival: Lucien Pellat-Finet Graphic Tees
At first glance, the designs of Frenchman Lucien Pellat-Finet might appear to be little more than an unabashed celebration of vulgarity. To be sure, kitsch is undoubtedly one of Monsieur Pellat-Finet’s raisons d’être. But as with so many things in this world, run far enough with the “bad”, and you’ll likely come back round the…
Product Spotlight: the Drake’s x Private White V.C. Work Shirt
In the northern English city of Salford there exists an anachronistic relic of the Victorian age: the redbrick factory of Cooper & Stollbrand. Birthplace of the industrial revolution, the Greater Manchester area was once entirely filled with similar enterprises. Here were mills for the spinning of silk, cotton, and wool; industrial cathedrals echoing with the…
New Arrivals: Ludwig Reiter Bench Made Shoes and Boots
There are many “heritage” brands around today who market themselves as maintaining an unbroken manufacturing tradition since the birth of the company way back in the mists of antiquity. Of these, some are undeniably the real thing. Yet sadly many others are merely opportunists spinning a good story for greater credibility and profit – the…