a guide to heritage clothing, canvas bags, steel bicycles, and Japanese web shops
Browsing the B-Shop for fall inspirations. Every page refresh brings different combinations of web shop models sporting my favorite Japan-only brand offerings: Barbour, Danton, Brady, Tricoteur. For those who have not visited B-Shop in person, here’s a quick preview:
Counter programming against Black Friday, I like to rapid scroll through the web shops of the Japanese apparel accounts I follow on Instagram. I know the lag delay of Google translating product descriptions and sizing charts will put the brakes on impulse buying one more chore coat that I don’t need. Instead, I grab screen …
When it comes to Brady, I always shop from the robust, more-than-I-need department: body-width game bags with knotted nets and two inch web straps, rubber lined fishing bags that would fit a full salmon, and big, VW engine-sized totes (well, maybe e-bike sized). As a thought exercise, I started to explore some of the more …
I started this blog back in 2006 as a way to track on garb found on Japanese websites. At the time, proxy services were expensive and many shops in Japan didn’t ship overseas. In most cases, the clothing items I actually wanted were only sized for men so there was really no point in doing …
Here are some recents finds from my search for Filson Japan and Filson Black Label items on Yahoo! Japan auctions. Also, if you want to wax nostalgic about what you wish you had purchased from the Filson Italy, here’s a 2010 blog post from Mister Crew with more details. In trolling the Yahoo! Auctions, I …
I primarily supply my field bag needs from Brady but I’m tempted by one of these potentially unavailable waxed cotton field bags or totes from South 2 West 8 (likely made for them by Brady or Chapman or Hardy or some other venerable UK subcontractor from the usual ingredient list: canvas, leather, webbing and metal …
I’m creating a visual placeholder for these exemplary cordovan v-tip loafers (and a few blucher oxfords) by Makers (Japan). I first spotted these on the handsome Jelado gent featured in one of the more recent Clutch Cafe IGTV videos. Per usual, I’ve launched a fruitless search via my usual go to Japanese proxy sites and …
Since 2018, Barbour has been collaborating with Japanese label Beams Boy (dedicated to producing clothing for women women who “love the strength and function found in men’s fashion”) on a capsule collection of waxed and quilt jackets. Here are few of the pieces pulled from Japanese web pages that you won’t be seeing at your …
Availalble through the Takanna web shop (Japan).