Bit of a double whammy here from the UK’s finest trainer-istas New Balance. In the form of two limited edition collections made to commemorate their 30 years of domestic production at their factory up in Flimby, Cumbria. The first collection is a trio of high quality trainers named’ The 576 Cutting Room Pack’ each of which are named after three [...]

Right then, lets forget we’re all skint and on tablets just for a bit whilst we listen to Proper Magazine’s favourite top ten Christmas tunes. Most of these festive bangers are either from the Seventies or Eighties, a magical time when Christmas day couldn’t be ruined by 24 hour rolling news and generic ‘Merry xmas everyone’ text messages. So put your iphone [...]

OK you might be pushing it getting one of these in time for Christmas but we would definitely recommend you spending some of your Christmas money from Nanna/the DHSS on one of these ace wiffle ball & bat kits from new UK label & online shop Trickett. What’s a wiffle bat? Do you know nothing of America and it’s crazy ball [...]

The perennial Christmas gift… the sock, the gift set… underpants. Ah yes, underpants. The oft-unseen and rarely regarded rig out item. No point showing off your extra special alpaca and cashmere winter knitwear, your handmade moccasins and your £1000 Cabourn jacket if you’ve not come correct underneath the layers. That’s where Sunspel arrives to your aid. For the uncompromising gent [...]

  Readers of issue 10 of our illustrious magazine may remember the cracking ‘Shop Ten’ written by proprietor of Tameside’s fantastic Shed shop and all round top bloke Ryan Knight. His seriously clued-up list of favourite shops was one of our favourite pieces ever printed even though Ryan rather modestly omitted his own superb store in that hallowed list. Due to [...]

You know how we feel about luxury socks here at Proper don’t you? Aldo’s top tier menswear line, Mr B comes correct this winter and throws down the sock er.. gauntlet by bringing us their Goerke fair isle socks.

Whoah we’re going to Barbados! Well we’re not are we? As we’re all far too skint for tropical trips, why not treat yourself to a pair of Lacoste Barbados mid boots as a suave and affordable alternative?

As if one jacket competition isn’t enough, we’re also giving you the chance to get your hands on a ready made piece of sartorial Mancunian excellence for absolutely free! When it comes to heritage menswear, the name Stone-Dri may not be instantly recognisable…

We’d just like to bring to your attention the fact that one of our favourite shirt-smiths Mr Mikkel Rude has six new window pane check shirts out.

If there’s one thing we’re proper buzzing off at the moment it’s a bit of native American patterning..

Oh we do like a bit of baggage here at Proper and quite frankly it doesn’t come much better than Lake District luggage legends Chapman. Collaborating for the first time with this legendary English bag maker, this compact, functional style has been designed exclusively for Modern Classics.

Hands up who collects things? Me too. Clothes (obv.), disco records, foreign/indie films on DVD, flick knives, old tins, religious statues, swing tags, luxury socks, Mai 68 posters and cool books are just some of the things that regularly bring out the hunter gatherer/blatant show-off in me.

Lets be honest, there are few sensory experiences finer in life than putting on a new jumper are there? You can keep your hi-octane group sex sessions or 18 hour crack binges, we get a our hits from knits.

Having just finished work on a cookery show that featured old family recipes, I know all about Herdwick sheep (and how nice they taste in a hot-pot).

Adding to the growing success of his superb clothing line, for AW11 Oly has created a rather suave looking 100% leather holdall for all your weekend away needs.

The first in a series entitled Number Six & Co, Proper contributor and all round cool cat Glenn Kitson has been selected to choose and style pieces from the AW11 selections available at the store.

Urban Industry return with another of their mini-lookbooks, this time focussing on Penfield and in particular the Kasson jacket.

We have to take our titfers off to the witty chaps down at Duffer, for their latest photo- shoot they’ve done something of a British parody of the vintage preppy look..

Its all well and good being kitted out in the finest gear available to man but if you’re wearing a pair of Fred Flintstone boxers and a Primark vest underneath it all then quite frankly, you’re a dickhead. Its one thing looking good but feeling good is just as, if not more important..

Are we all sitting comfortably on our selvedge denim/vintage chino clad arses? Good then I’ll begin….