Its always good to find out about a new label, especially when it comes from one of our favourite cities and looks as good (or should that be ‘grand’?) as this stuff. We’ve seen lots of highly respected designers featuring great accessories made from Irish materials of late so it’s really nice to see an actual Irish label at last..
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…
As previously documented on here when I sit back and recall certain stations of my semi-eventful life, there’s always an epic sound-track to accompany these haunting and vivid…
How chuffed are we? Our good friend Mr Cabourn has just given us an exclusive sneak preview of some of his smashing pieces from his forthcoming Autumn/Winter collection…
From beardy cave-men daubing their family albums using burnt sticks on cave walls to beardy geeks dicking around with iphone apps, it seems that portraiture has been a consistent pastime of the homo-sapien artist (as has facial hair).
From midnight tonight you’ll be able to pre-order from the very impressive Barbour Tokihito AW11 range via Number Six shop.
Beautiful motorbikes, Arlo Guthrie singing and some seriously fine denim. Could this film be any cooler?
Long-time friend of Proper and dead good record player man Rob Hyde aka Honk aka Bobby Chips has done a rather splendid mix of fantastic tunes for our mates over at Test Pressing.
Our mates at Street Casuals have just knocked up a great look-book featuring their latest haul of Summery gear, so to be in with the chance of winning this rather ace Penfield Sconset jacket in grey blue denim….
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.
OK it’s that time of year when the sun is out and you want to enjoy some cool wind in your hair and perhaps the warm smell of colitas, whatever the fuck they are? And what better way to emulate Don Henley by getting a nice white, medium weight, 100% cotton t-shirt to wear whilst sipping your pink champagne on ice?
Just like a (well dressed, vintage 1950s) bus, we don’t have a competition on here for ages then two turn up at once. Anyway, dodgy metaphors aside, this week those suave Bolognans at 12th Man have given us three amazing prizes to be won, all of which are ideal garments for the forthcoming summer months …
OK as spring is officially here, there’s never been a better time to hang your festering denims up and get a nice bit of colour on your legs. No we’re not talking about six minutes on the electric beach, we’re talking about winning a pair of Tuk-Tuk’s ace new chinos…
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?
Check out these Welder jackets from Chrisophe Hascoat’s ace New York label Taylor Supply. We met Chris albeit briefly at Capsule last month in Paris, he seemed like a smashing bloke…
Surely one of the best things about the hi-tech shenaniganary that is ‘the internet’ is the immediate access to hitherto unknown musical genres, tastes, scenes and mixes. Were it not for the magic of broadband we’d probably still be referring to the music press, annoying radio stations and Later with Jools Holland before deciding what to write on our school bags,
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.
So any-way, being Stockport’s answer to Karl Lagerfeld and Gok Wan, we headed over to Paris last weekend to check out the Capsule and Rendez-Vous trade shows. Something neither of us thought we’d ever end up doing but since issue ten of the mag has blown everyone’s socks off and very nearly sold out in just a month. We decided it’s time to take this clothing lark seriously, well as seriously as we can be.