Bellroy is a little-known brand that makes some of the best wallets, work bags, and travel accessories out there I stole the above by-line from Insider magazine, which…
It’s 2022 and the years of gendered shoes are over. To some extent, gendered everything is coming to an end; my sister got a shower set of Lynx…
One of the rarely discussed challenges of modern life is that of maintaining an ambient temperature in your home or office. Winter comes along, elbows out, muscling its…
Fracap are an Italian cobblers that have been making shoes for over 100 years. Their boot was widely unavailable outside of Italy and Japan (their first market export),…
The worst thing about the down filled, quilted, or otherwise winter-tuned slipper trend is that, due to the lack of grip, they’re almost always designed solely for indoor…
I’ve been in London for the past few days, but my Instagram’s been full of snow-lined hiking pictures for some time now. Not just out in the Peaks,…
Laboratory Perfumes represents a new way of working with scent. It’s no secret that perfumers – perfumologists? Fragrance-ologists? – conduct their work in labs, carefully combining essences and…
The pervasive impact of plastic bottles on the planet doesn’t need to be highlighted by anyone – not in 2021, anyway. It did, though, 10 COPs ago, when…
On Running is having a bit of a moment right now. The brand was founded in 2010 by Olivier Bernhard – a champion Ironman – and since then,…
It’s all well and good being waterproofed up to the chin in a nice and heavy Arc’teryx coat, a North Face, or maybe an ACG, but sometimes the…
Forét, taken from the Danish word for forest, have traditionally styled most of their outfits in the great outdoors. Their clothes aren’t exactly for hiking, though. Forét is…
The word amenity means “a desirable or useful feature or facility of a building or place” according to the internet. I knew what it meant but wouldn’t have…
If you’re going to be a purveyor of sunglasses it probably makes sense to base yourself somewhere where there’s a lot of sun. California, for example. It’s fair…
Corridor is a very grown up brand. When we think about New York, often our minds cast to streetwear, all those growing skateboarding brands that have emerged from…
Sunglasses instantly make you cooler. Nobody knows why this is, it’s just a fact. And another fact is that some sunglasses are cooler than others. These stylish sunnies…
We’re all spending a little more time in the fresh air these days, partly because of the old covid situation and partly because, well, it’s just nice. While…
Trainer socks. Invisible or not? Wait, you’re missing the point. We don’t need to spend an hour every warm morning deciding whether or not to let our feet…
The Star Master has been around for decades but it’s only just the last one that true appreciation for its beauty has become widespread. Canvas shoes are usually…
Do you need to make your appreciation of Hygge bigger? Do you even know what it is? Don’t worry, you don’t need to. It’s basically relaxing at home…
Please be seated, your garden furniture choice for 2021 is here and it’s not messing about. A wise man once told me that if you’re into nice things,…
Fast becoming a firm favourite here in the Proper office. Cotopaxi are a brand that believe in the power of adventure to make the world a better place.…