a guide to heritage clothing, canvas bags, steel bicycles, and Japanese web shops
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 …
The Sierra Club-Angeles Chapter History Archives recently published these fab photos of Glen Dawn and other club members on the summit of Mt. Langley. The images were taken in the 1940s and feature club members posing during outings and at camp.Per usual, the photos illustrate a bygone approach to dressing for the outdoors absent of …
The Archival blog started in 2006 as a place to presevere ephemeral print, digitized scans and new digital catalog content. Originally, I posted scans of my own outdoor clothing catalogs from the US and UK. Later, I expanded to include images from Japanese web shops selling Japan-only garb by US and European outdoor labels like …
Per yesterday’s entry, I’m reprinting a few of my favorite views from the strangely compelling, Filson Japan lookbook, “The Ballad of Portraits”. I love the stylized presentation of the figures who look like colorized, plasticized transplants from a 19th century daguerreotype (if Dodge Sportsmans appeared in daguerreotypes). Since most web image content disappears from view …
We love these hand tinted magic lantern slides by alpinist Thomas B. Moffat. Taken in the 1930s, they document the Alpine Club of Canada’s ascent of several mountains in the Canadian Rockies. There’s a refreshing lack of technical clothing, high tech gear and off road vehicles in these photographs. Vests, ponchos, pipes and caps finish …
Some shots from a crusty Canadian climber thread on supertopo. Found via the always magnificent AAPC.=”utf-8″>
Here’s a shopping opportunity for vintage climbing packs and apparel from Seattle based Yak Works. AC reader Alan Wenker was kind enough to supply me with these original scans. Alan is interested in vintage backpacking apparel from 60s and 70s. Like Archival, Alan wants to see as many of these original catalogs made available for …
In 1959, four young men made the first ascent of Denali (Mt. McKinley) via the West Rib. “Pete Sinclair, a fine rock climber from the Dartmouth Mountaineering Club.” Photos used with the permission of the American Alpine Club.
Growing up as a library hound and a rock climber, I read a lot of dusty books about climbing from the 1960s and 1970s. There were always a lot of references to Layton Kor, the giant of a man climbing the sandiest towers that Utah has to offer. The famous Kor-Ingalls route on Castleton Tower …
A few pages from Pillpat (Agence Eureka), our favorite print ephemera source for climbing packs, cycling capes and aviator costumes. Plisson (1911) Images courtesy of Pillpat (Agence Eureka)