From Backpacker Magazine, February 1976. Some images from later issues.
Full text versions of Backpacker Magazine availabe from Google Magazine Archives.
a guide to heritage clothing, canvas bags, steel bicycles, and Japanese web shops
From Backpacker Magazine, February 1976. Some images from later issues.
Full text versions of Backpacker Magazine availabe from Google Magazine Archives.
I just got a bunch of deadstock late 70’s Frostline Kits, sew it yourself goosedown vests/jackets from ebay…next a sewing machine-nice post.
I’m pretty sure I own one of these sew-it-yourself vests, found in a thrift store in Colorado. Forest green with leather patches on the shoulders.
Thanks for all the amazing posts! But where are the anoraks?
I had a pair of Raichle hiking boots that I bought in about 1978 at Paragon Sports in New York. Never realized their potential as I was living in Manhattan.
I coveted those leather Raichle boots as a child. I dreamed they’d be my first pair. Unfortunately, I got Raichle cloth ones. They did last forever, but the color scheme was tragic.
Somewhat like Diplomatica, I aspired to full leather hiking boots for summer camp but ended up with Nike brand, rainbow flair, 80s-eram “going outside” boots. Where have all the vintage Danner and Raichle boots gone?
And perhaps it’s time to revive sew it yourself kits as a form of home commerce for those of us who do not knit.
amazing post!