Some trainers are forever trying to reinvent themselves. New shapes. New technologies. Every season, another attempt to convince us that the future has arrived. The PUMA Suede has…
The first shops weren’t really shops at all. They were market stalls, merchants’ tables and dusty corners where somebody had something somebody else wanted. They were just spots…
A few months ago I did something daft. I sold a vintage pair of Wallabee Lites that I’d spent years hunting down, and even longer keeping them safely…
Football has never been more popular, but as the World Cup has shown, the gap between the haves and have nots has never been wider. At one end…
For over a decade, the Clifton has been HOKA’s dependable workhorse. Since first appearing back in 2014, it’s become one of those rare running shoes that manages to…
Let’s be honest, most hiking shoes spend more time walking to the coffee shop than they do scaling windswept ridgelines. Well, they do for me. And there’s absolutely…
Ok, so I’ve looked at these a few times over the last month and veered between confused amusement and seriously wondering if they’re the actual future. I’ve decided…
It’s been a week of serious rest and recovery following last week’s punishing Parisian trip. More than 30 miles of walking, largely in temperatures of 40°C and above,…
There’s a tangible magic to some football shirts. Some may dismiss them as a composition made largely of polyester, or if they’re really old, cotton, but in our…
Some shops sell clothes. Others leave a mark.For two decades, Oi Polloi was one of those rare places that managed to do both. And after an enforced absence,…
With the World Cup on the agenda, the growing prevalence of football shirts on our streets shows no sign of calming down. It’s weird for someone of my…
In a strangely serendipitous turn of events yesterday, I was switched on to an Australian outdoor brand a few short hours after having watched a film set in…
There’s something properly unnerving about the idea of hundreds of strangers all dreaming the same dream. It sounds a bit too Black Mirror for me. But when people…
Chefs are an unlikely style icon, but a style icon nonetheless. Banish from your mind images of stressed lads in chequered pants out the back, scrolling their phone…
Columbia Sportswear’s Hike Society is back for 2026, having just launched its new season with Dirtbags: a pop-up laundrette-turned-hiking-hub in East London where well-used outdoor kit gets a second…
That ubiquitous trio of stripes – allied to the familiar trefoil – are inescapable at the moment, and for good reason. The vast archive of sports footwear to…
Today, as is often the case, we’re casting admiring glances to Scandinavia, a place where the great outdoors isn’t some sort of post-covid trend, it is part of…
Any time a brand enters our awareness via the time-honoured fashion of nice coats, we consider it our duty to find out more. Where did they come from?…
The weekend just gone, Bolton-born Reebok took over The Vinyl Factory (via Phonica Records) to remind us all why we should still pay a large measure of attention…
We’ve just passed the ten-year anniversary of Proper becoming a full-time venture and a real business, and while there have been notable changes along the way, the core…
We’re always interested in stories of success from outliers. People from places where fame and fortune doesn’t always flow freely are always more likeable and grounded than their…