Tom Scott recently took on the role of ‘marketing type bloke’ at Oi Polloi. I’m sure there’s a more showy-off title for his job but he’s not the…
Trainers are big news again aren’t they? It’s not that we ever really turned our back on them but the buzz around buying a pair of boxfresh beauties seems…
Without further ado I would like to introduce our latest fave five contributor, the esteemed Mr David Hellqvist. If you’re not aware of David’s writing skills then you’re…
Our latest favourite five comes from a geezer deeply involved with Triads, no he doesn’t have a team of sex slaves or an illegal gambling den (as far…
Calum Gordon is both Scottish and dead good at writing about clothes. The latter is a prerequisite for being on this site really and his Scottishness is a…
A Favourite Five with a difference here from STAND fanzine editor Seb White. You’d be hard pressed to find a label, these days that didn’t mention the word…
As a somewhat niche/cool/sarcastic magazine emanating from the North West of England it’s good to know that Proper isn’t entirely out there on it’s own when it comes…
I remember first meeting Mark a few years back at Jacket Required and thinking after our brief chat ‘what a lovely man’ as I examined the pockets of…
Though Mark and I know loads about clothes, gear, schmutter, not looking like a Ted, how to wear a backpack etc. our man in the South and Proper…
Velour by Nostalgi’s history began in 1997 when Per Andersson started to go through the warehouse his ancestors (who’d owned a men and womens’ outfitters) had left behind.…
We recently got accused on twitter of being a bit pretentious of late on these Favourite Fives. Naturally we brushed off this criticism by spending the afternoon doing…
A cheeky first entry featuring one of his own bags here from talented Dubliner Christian though to be fair whats the point in creating something if you don’t…
Though the favourite five bar has been raised incredibly high via a plethora of wonderful contributors so far Common People founder Kestin Hare has just hit us with…
If you’re a fellow denim geek then you’ll be more than aware of Self Edge, a holy trinity of stores based in New York, LA & San Francisco that…
As an unashamed francophile and also someone who thinks that the Edwin Overworks jeans are without a doubt the best I have ever owned, I could be accused…
Michael Taylor is an events producer and writer. He used to write about sport, music, fashion, design and culture – but that was in Australia in 1989. He…
Fuji’s Favourite Five. How cool does that sound? It should be a TV show shouldn’t it? I’d watch it. Especially if each week Fuji picked out five of…
It’s fair to say that Daiki Suzuki’s Engineered Garments label (and his previous WWM output) couldn’t be any more highly regarded by both Mark and I at here…
A few issues ago I hit upon the idea of doing ‘Shop tens’ in the magazine but with us/most shop proprietors being very easily distracted we only did…
With everything all getting a bit mainstream in the last few years, talk of the casual scene is usually met with a cringe these days. The roots of…
Even though it’s not updated anywhere near as often as we’d like it to be, John Poland’s Soft Water blog is definitely a case of quality over quantity,…