a guide to heritage clothing, canvas bags, steel bicycles, and Japanese web shops
I have a thing for cycling breeches and plus fours (aka knickers). When UK outdoor custom clothier Hebden Cord closed shop, I bought up ten pairs of breeks in assorted fabrics (cord, tweed, ventile) on eBay. True confession: I admire these garments more than I like to wear them. In practice, on my bike, I …
Images courtesy Pillpat, Flickr Commons, Zombikombi1959 and my personal archives
by Lesli Larson Miss Smith and the soldier from Oregon A Canterbury Tale (Powell and Pressburger 1944) provides us with evidence that heritage clothing for women is not an impossibility. In a recent post to Valet, a 23 year old woman inquired about how she could wear “peacoats, slim pants, loafers, etc. without looking too …
Hoggs Bowmore Tweed Breeks (Country Supplies) Fenwick Tweed Breeches (Hucklecote) Wathen & Gardiner Moleskin Breeches (British Sporting Ltd) Corduroy Breeches (British Sporting Ltd.) Gabardine City Knickers V. 2 (Bicycle Fixation) Plus-Four Humour (The Field Magazine, Novemeber 2003)