We could go on about how we did an interview with David Keyte what seems like ages ago (because it was ages ago). It’s great to see how…
Ooh, Melton wool and chambray lining. A match made in heaven. Well, Portland anyway, home of premium outerwear brand Holden. They’ve jumped into a nice warm bed with…
Are you one of those people who refuses to put the central heating on unless absolutely necessary? Piles of blankets on your bed, hot water bottle up your…
Cloth have been operating out of the base in Lurgan, Northern Ireland since October 2008. Their story is a familiar one. Tired of the high street offer and…
Unsurprisingly Pica~Post has only gone and excelled itself. The in-house publication of our amigos at Oi Polloi looks good enough to eat. Well, it does if you’re into…
Having visited most of the big cities in the UK, one thing that always strikes me is how little variation there is between those outside the capital city.…
Ballsy? Bold? Brave? Daring? All character traits of cold water surfers. You’ve got to be a bit mad to jump on a surfboard when everyone else is gulping…
Duffer AW12 As the style conscious young chap begins to get more savvy, Duffer represents the perfect graduation from the sportswear young lads wear to something with a…
The workwear trend has thrown up some great stuff this last few years. There are plenty of brands who appreciate the aesthetic and faithfully reproduce it as out-and-about…
Your eyes might be fixed fully on fall (ok, autumn) but we’re already fast forwarding six months to when everyone’s going to start dressing like urban surfers. Finisterre…
We’ve not really gone big on hats on Proper have we? Neither of us go mad for them, basically because our combined age is 74. But we’re both…
The nights are drawing in, our fingers and hovering over the central heating button and we’re about to launch headlong into that twice-yearly task of wardrobe re-evaluation. Put…
Named after the lovely Mediterranean port of Alicante, these shoes are perfect for padding along the promenade. Try saying that after a few San Miguels. Ideal for walking…
Here’s a first… We’re talking about apps. Mobile phone apps. Or an app, to be precise. Vyclone is a dead clever invention which helps you and your friends…
Paul Heaton is someone we’ve wanted to pin down for Proper for a while. When various factors dictated we couldn’t fit this interview (and some other great stuff)…
Buy Proper Issue 12 After a brief sabbatical involving daytime television and vimto bon-bons, Proper is back with its twelfth and easily best issue. With help from Manchester-based design gurus…
Whenever I hear people refer to the New Balance factory in Flimby it takes me back to what I now call ‘The CBeebies Years’. I spent more years…
Guardian Music have just launched Six Songs of Me, a unique celebration of the songs that have shaped peoples’ lives. The service asks each user to answer six…
Having had a couple of pairs of Pointer when they first emerged as a brand a few years ago, I’d kind of forgotten about them until recently. Probably…
OK so we’ve all caught ourselves reading online about the latest latest Y-front necked cardigans to come out of Kawasaki or articles on how to look just like…
Another short video for you from the series of events adidas have been running of late. Coinciding with the Olympics, this event featured live music from Factory Floor…