You might have noticed blog posts on here and elsewhere declaring “camo’s back”. But for us it never went away, we just couldn’t see it. How many times…
We like to mention nice things here on Proper. Usually that’s confined to clothes and footwear but occasionally we break the mould and mention books, bags and other…
Yeah yeah we know it’s slightly later than we said it would be, but that’s simply because we’re perfectionists and we wouldn’t want to unleash a mediocre magazine…
No, it’s not a 1990s drug reference. Those days are gone. No, we’re talking about a young shoe brand, straight out of South Wales via Spain. Intrigued? You…
What do you mean you can’t see it? Oh right, you were doing one of those jokes about camouflage weren’t you? Bad jokes aside, the time is now…
Collaborations are pretty old hat now aren’t they? But that doesn’t mean they’re all bad. Ok, so there have been some mental mash ups in recent months, many…
The Connoisseur brand is a progressive, homegrown brand. They’re also very good friends of ours. Born out of the 1990s casual scene, they initially built up quite a following…
Bought a flat, got married, turned 30, joined the Campaign for Real Ale and became addicted to Countryfile – there is no escaping from the fact my life has gone all grown up. The times, “they are a changing” (see I’ve even started listening to Bob Dylan) the transition has also been reflected in my appearance. The wardrobe consists of more shoes not trainers, knitwear not sportswear, durable wax coats not sports jackets FFS I’ve even started wearing bobble hats.
Our new old mate Carl at The Original Store worded us up about this a good few weeks ago now. This was inbetween us collectively putting the world to rights and discussing “what comes next” in terms of clothing.
For The Original Store at least, this marks a slight departure. Only a slight one, mind. The bottom line is Heritage Research make good clothes and The Original Store likes selling good clothes.
Heritage Research remain a firm favourite at Proper Towers. We thought we’d share a few of their standout items for Spring/Summer over the coming days, starting with this new/improved Longline Parka. It comes with a gilet, or a padded vest as we call it.
I have become a walker. A rambler if you will.This fate has befallen me out of desire for an item of clothing. A Berghaus Riot Jacket in ‘Goldenrod’ yellow. Well, you would wouldn’t you?
Once in a while we get a bit sick of the sound of our own voices and feel the need to sprinkle a few extra spicy ingredients into the Proper Magazine pie. Spicy is one way to describe the unforgiving, cynical and downright brilliant eye on the world offered by our friend Richard Green. Read on to find out more about ten films that will depress your tits right off.
Avid Proper Magazine readers will have noted our past (and current) appreciation for Terry Farley/Faith and a very smart online shop called the original store.
As such we’re bang into this little collaboration between the two. Featuring a mix CD by Faith’s and Boys Own Terry Farley and Jimmy P, it’s another very limited edition t-shirt project between the two.
As we’ve said on numerous occasions previous to this one, John is our patron saint of humour. Or comedy. Your choice which. If you’re not aware of his work, perhaps it’s about time your gave your head a wobble and check him out on youbend. Or is it youtube? Or better still maybe you could go and see him live?
We’ve fielded quite a few requests for Issue 9 recently but it has sold out, we don’t even have a spare copy for ourselves. We’re planning a ‘Best Of’ featuring the good stuff from issues 1-9 in 2011 but in the meantime we thought we’d whet your appetite with a little snippet of our interview with the chap behind Superdenim in Issue 9, released in late summer 2010.