Posts tagged “Vintage”
Blue Gold: The Movie
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Michel Gondry x Levis
I guess I’m very late on this one. Incredible video that Michel Gondry made for Levis. It has a great feel, and really looks old. Wikipedia: According to the Guinness World Records 2004, Michel Gondry’s Levi’s 501 Jeans “Drugstore” spot holds the record for “Most awards won by a TV commercial”.[2] The commercial was never [...]
Levi Strauss & Co. by Lynn Downey
I noticed this book on amazon: I haven’t seen it before. It looks interesting. Does anyone have it? Is it worth getting?
Brit Eaton: Hunting for Vintage Denim
Outside Magazine has an article written by Steven Rinella about vintage denim hunter Brit Eaton from Carpe Denim. Here’s the article: http://outside.away.com/outside/culture/200901/brit-eaton-hunting-for-vintage-denim-1.html You may remember seeing Brit in the Blue Jean Confidential documentary by CBC. It’s quite an exciting article with interesting stories about remote places and funny characters. Perhaps when I get through my [...]
Vito Corleone Wardrobe
The Godfather II has some great period clothing. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071562/ Robert De Niro as Vito Corleone sports some nice caps, braces, long johns, shirts with a variety of collars (big, rounded, and no collar). You should dress like this when you are starting your own underground organised criminal society. Check out the Godfather series if you [...]
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 [...]
Movie: Blue Jean Confidential CBC Documentary
If you haven’t seen this documentary you can watch it online here: http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/confidential/bluejean_video.html It’s quite good. It includes interviews with Adriano Goldschmied, Lynn Downey and James Sullivan. And the makers even travelled to Kojima japan to check out the Rampuya and interview some hardcore collectors.
Furugiya (???) (Update)
Recently I received a blog comment from Ethan over at the Ethandesu blog. He’s got a great blog about some awesome clothing – his interests range into the very sartorial. It’s all very interesting stuff. Anyway, Ethan dropped the Japanese term “Furugiya”. I hadn’t heard of this word before, so I did a bit of [...]
100 Years Ago – Shorpy
The Shorpy Blog has amazing pictures from circa 1900, back when denim jeans were being invented. These pictures really get you thinking about how different our lives are compared to 100 years ago. Shorpy Blog
King of Vintage
This guy has the maddest collection of vintage clothing… From the subtitles the top jeans in his collection appear to be: 1880 501 1937 501XX 1902 501XX 1920 201 1910 333 1910 501XX As Indiana Jones always said about old artefacts… “It belongs in a museum“.