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…
With cycling all the rage right now we’re going to be predictable and jump on the bandwagon. You’ll find no sideburns at Proper HQ though, nor will you…
In these times of trendy wendy types disguised as outdoorsmen, it’s nice to talk about a genuine ourdoor technical brand. Rohan have returned with a sneaky look at…
Duffer are well and truly back(pack). They’re back on the scene and causing a ruck(sack). Enough of the characteristically terrible puns though, get on these Duffer of St…
Quick, quick, get your shorts on, have a shave and go outside, the sun has got his hat on. Anyone with half a clue knows that when the…
Ok so we’d all like to be rocking about in t-shirts and shorts, but this being the UK that’s not possible at the moment. The prolonged downpour has…
Following on from the recent Oliver Spencer event, Saint Premium Lager have got snappy. Their latest event celebrates the craft of British Photography at the Lomography Gallery Store in…
Remember Paszport? Well, just because England are out we don’t all have to stop talking or reading about football do we? Ok, so the debates from soccer nauses…
Typical Patagonia, pioneering. Pushing boundaries. Erm, something something through the looking glass. Their Footprint Chronicles were first launched in 2007 and have recently been given a kickstart. The…