a guide to heritage clothing, canvas bags, steel bicycles, and Japanese web shops
Here are two unusual Brady bags spotted on Smith Country Pursuits, one of my fave sites for British country clothing and accessories (my abandoned cart includes a Brady Sandringham, a harking horn and a bridle leather clip lead for my pup). Brady Lana Bag
Handy Totes in beeswaxed canvas from Scotland are back in stock. Here are some quick views of the new (very) limited run along with some of the exhibitors and shoppers at the Ditch Projects holiday market.
Missed it! This lovely outdoor vest collaboration between Filson and Sidnaw, a Michigan-based outdoor apparel company, bounced from in-box to sold-out-in-my-size in a blink. Everything about the ingredient list for this garment is top notch: Filson deadstock waxed-cotton fabric (8-oz. oil finish Cover Cloth and the Burnt Olive with 11-oz. oil finish Shelter Cloth) for …
Thanks to an Archival follower who conjectured that that Rivendell’s Wooly Warm sweaters might be coming from the same knitting mill as vintage, UK-made LL Bean sweaters from the mid-1980s. Both come in a a similar shade of sea foam green and resemble each other in terms of overall styling (heavy of the rib knit). …
Spring sleet has me in heavy wool and waxed cotton lockdown for a few weeks. That doesn’t mean I didn’t pause my weekly Engineered Garments “new arrivals” spot scroll to gawk at these new patchwork camp shorts which have a lovely Gramicci by way Patagonia Stand Up shorts climbing short vibe. I’ll hold off as …
Tom and I are proud to announce the release of are latest bag, the Handy Roll Top backpack, now available for pre-order. Shipping date: sometime in December. We are only making fifty packs in this run, and we’re almost out of the magical, Scottish woven Land Rover tarp fabric that we used for our Handy …
Quick snaps of the weekend holiday marketing at Ditch Projects in Springfield, Oregon. Tom showed a mix of furniture, lighting and spatula designs alongside our Handy waxed and natural canvas totes. The show was also a mini reunion of sorts with other Eugene makers like Nicholas Hollows, Eugene Printmakers and Twin Ravens Press. Surprise development: …
Our waxed Handy large totes are out for delivery with a few being kept back for the Ditch Projects Market on Dec 4 and 5 in Eugene, Oregon. Our next release will be the Handy Roll Top which should be available in early to mid December (details TBD). Stay tuned and connect with us by …
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 …
Browsing eBay for second hand Sandringhams, I spotted this fetching Nigel Cabourn x Fox Brothers pack. Since I typically only admire but don’t buy bags made from tweed, I don’t need to fret over the $1,249 asking price. What I love in this bag (and what I’d buy in an all canvas edition) is the …