You know those Japanese brands that have a dead interesting story behind them? Kapital is one of them. But interesting as the story is, it’s a bit boring.…
Gimme and alligator print sweatshirt…. and make it snappy! That’s what I’d say if I went to Brighton tomorrow and went in Peggs and Son. And this is…
Get a load of this, the aptly named Acid Print sweat from Folk. They’re mad, Folk, aren’t they? They like mixing things up, making slightly racy clothes that…
It’s that time of year again. The time where you fight your inner critic and keep checking your bank account. New stuff is popping up in the shops,…
Last Friday of the month today. For some of you lucky buggers, that means payday. One of the best paydays of the year too, as shops are being…
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…
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…
You might have noticed that all this earnest talk of colourways and shirting isn’t really our style on Proper. We’re a bit Northern, we routinely mix people who…
Russ Gater is the man behind one of our favourite clothing brands in recent years, Heritage Research. He’s now dividing his time between a number of smaller projects…
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…
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.
Richard Gill is the foremost retailer of vintage clothing in Manchester. Having occupied various retail spaces around the Northern Quarter of the city over a ten year period,…
As a local lad made good we can’t believe it took us a couple of issues before we got in touch with Dominic Stansfield. It’s not just the local angle that appeals though. His clothes are and always have been blessed with bags of character and individual without getting anywhere near the realms of looking daft. Quite the opposite in fact. It’s all ace. So we had a chat.