William Kroll’s Tender started up in 2009 as a tiny production of a pair of hand-dyed jeans, a denim jacket, an oak bark-tanned leather belt, and some T-shirts.…
My head is in a spin My feet don’t touch the ground Because you’re near to me My head goes round and round My knees are shakin’ baby…
Passionate advocate and loyal flag flyer of British made menswear, fashion Oracle/expert and all round top bloke Daniel Jenkins is also the proprietor of a proper smart online…
The tide is turning, don’t you think? Instead of running about pretending to be army men or woodcutters, everyone is starting to think instead about pretending to be…
Paul Vincent and Sara Kelly founded S.E.H Kelly three years ago. Sara looks after the design and making parts of the business, and Paul makes the tea. Paul…
This is what happens when funky funkster Pharrell Williams and kooky err..clothes-ter Mark McNairy get together to knock up a pair of boots. Instead of footwear they got a…
If you’ve had any kind of interest in dance music over the past 20 odd years then you’ll know that Justin Robertson is pretty much Acid house /…
I’m not normally the type of notright weirdo who takes a rucksack on a night out. But I did exactly that last weekend. It wasn’t part of the…
Great for the town, the terrace or trick or treating (plus other things which don’t necessarily begin with a ‘t’), the traditional smock is the kind of jacket…
Lucky for beardy me and my Volvo driving missus we got to see blood and gore(tex) fest ‘Sightseers’ last night, followed by a Q&A with the very talented…
Though it’s Halloween today we’re not suggesting that you get yourself a pair of these smart Red Wing leather gloves in order to get up to any dastardly…
Now these are right up our street. Everyone knows Crescent Down Works make some seriously ace outerwear, but this little mash up with brilliant bloggers Archival Clothing is…
Never let it be said that I’m an ‘all the gear but no idea’ type, though I may spend a lot of time indoors searching ebay for vintage…
The search terms ‘padmore’, ‘padmore barnes’, ‘clarks padmore’ and various other permutations have long been in my list of ‘saved searches’ on eBay. They’re now arguably redundant though,…
Maybe I have too much time on my hands but one of my favourite current pastimes involves finding decent online shops and then putting together the best possible…
Found yourself suitably under-dressed recently? You ventured out in just a t-shirt early on a Saturday night only to find your beer jacket isn’t enough to keep the…
Top news trainer fans! The New Balance 620 is back and exclusively available from our good mates over at Size? from this Friday. The 620 first launched in 1980…
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)…
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…
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…