Living in the UK, or even Europe for that matter, it’s always exciting when a store manages to negotiate a deal to stock a new Japanese brand. Although…
Denim. The working man’s fabric – or at least it used to be the working man’s fabric, pretty much everyone indulges in a bit of the hugely popular…
When you’re really into clothes and work with lots of clothes the natural progression is to get really into working on your own clothes, in other words, create…
We wrote an article the other day about KESTIN and the latest release of their Outdoor Garments collection. In the introduction to that article, we wrote something about…
90s rave culture – you had to be there. Well, the person writing this wasn’t there. I was born a good few years after, and for my sins,…
PUMA seem to be going from strength to strength at the minute, every other day they seem to release a top-notch trab in partnership with a pretty important…
Patagonia is one of those brands that has been infinitely cool since its conception way back in the 1970s. This is contributed largely by the company historically ignoring…
Upcycling, rebuilding, recycling & reusing are more important than ever given the way things are on our planet at the minute, especially within the realm of that ugly…
Lookbooks are well good, aren’t they? Seeing a load of attractive people wearing nice clothes a million times better than you ever could – it’s inspiring in an…
For nearly 50 years now Klättermusen has been producing some of the finest mountaineering garments and equipment – now we’re certainly no mountaineers, but we are massively into…
We love a bit of referencing. Especially if the referencing involves stuff we’re into. It’s kind of the whole reason that we like doing our A Good Look…
This year has proven to be a good one for outdoor gear fanatics and history buffs… Firstly, the announcement of Mountain Style Book, which details a history of…
If you’re sick of your down jacket looking like a clumpy, shapeless sack of feathers, you should pay attention to this. We’re sure you’re familiar with the expression…
We’re getting to that time of year when it seems like we live in perpetual darkness. Now we’re no scientists, but we seem to have found one remedy…
Tennis is a pretty cool sport, we reckon. Not just because of the sport itself, but mostly because of the clobber the game has given us – Fila…
It’s probably the worst-kept secret at Proper that we love corduroy. Actually it’s not even a secret, it’s public knowledge and we want it to be. In our…
We’re sticklers for anything old – old stories, old clothes, old cars. Something about objects having aged just makes them that much more captivating, they act as the…
We feel like Scotland might not get as much love as it deserves on Proper, but the truth is we reckon it’s well alright – battered Mars bars,…
When you think Massimo Osti, inevitably, you think Stone Island – his most successful clothing line, but the truth about Osti is that his genius stretched way beyond…
It probably won’t come as a surprise to hear we’re big fans of clothes, and this comes hand in hand with being big fans of seeing people wearing…
Perhaps one of the lesser-known facts about the clothing world is that quite a lot of brands have Japanese offshoots that are essentially their own brand, and they’re…