Archive for November, 2008
Varsity x Blazer
It’s not traditional, but I like the twist. http://men.style.com/news/blog/2008/11/varsity-blues.html
Raw leather shoes
You should buy these. I think they’ll look awesome with your denim. http://www.blackbirdballard.com/Esquivel_Blackbird_Boot_11035.html They’re beyond me. Here are some similar options. http://www.chukai.ne.jp/~motos/leather&silver/index2.html http://www.e-workers.net/pc/pc_moto/1.htm
LIFE Magazine Photo Archive
Google is hosting the LIFE magazine photo archive. http://images.google.com/hosted/life I guess that it is somewhat like the shorpy blog, but this is more commercial and more professional. You also have a search function. Anyway, I went trawling through the archive to find some photos to show you: Cowboy Ralph Wellard sporting some decent cuffs. 1943 [...]
500 things you should know: Repair ripped jeans
How to repair ripped jeans. From the book “Show Me How – 500 things you should know“. via NotCot (there are some interesting things in this book – like catching fish bare handed!)
RHR – OOE Yofukuten & Co. (updated)
OOE Yofukuten is a small Japanese denim brand from Nagoya. http://ooe-yofukuten.com Their awesome blog can be found here http://rhr.blog105.fc2.com/ There are 74 pages of 400 blog posts, starting back in may 2007. I can’t read the Japanese, but it’s well worth trawling through. There are lots of interesting pictures. The blog tracks the progress of [...]
Pace Jeans (updated)
http://pacejeans.com Pace seem to be making some nice items. Our typical PACE denim is made in traditional vintage way on original shuttle looms and comes from small mills around Osaka, Japan. The denim is a right hand twill, ring spun in warp and weft. It’s unique in look and feeling. Using significant details such as [...]
Ralph Lauren Interview 1993
I saw this a while ago, and lost track of which blog I found it on. Sorry. It’s an hour long interview with Ralph. He talks about a lot of things which are quite interesting. It was nice to hear the discussion around whether Ralph is a designer because it is reasonably valid that he [...]
Style.com denim "hotlist"
Style.com has a denim hotlist. http://men.style.com/theupgrader/style/hotlist/denim/ I don’t understand the ranking system. Jean Shop Rocker is Rank 1 with 276 votes, whereas APC New Standard is Rank 2 with 1108 votes… Ah, the editors’ picks are here: http://men.style.com/theupgrader/style/hotlist/denim?orderBy=EDITOR&page=1