Image credit: Austrian National Library on Unsplash Earlier this week I wrote about walking the West Highland Way and how I couldn’t stop thinking en route about outdoor clothing generally being so…well, not to put too fine a point on it, but…ugly. I also listed some of the things I wore along this roughly hundred-mile […]
Image credit: Mike Mozart / CC BY 2.0 If you’ve been at all dialled into online discussions about menswear in recent months, in addition to the usual buzz about hyped sneaker drops, the dissemination of trendy lookbook photos, and the reposting of clothing-based memes, there has been a lot of talk about something that is […]
Image credit: Robin Ooode on Unsplash When writing about dressing for the outdoors last week I mentioned that I recently had to retire my long-serving pair of hiking boots. This meant that, for the first time in about half a decade, I have been faced with the question of what walking shoes to buy. To […]
Image is my own / All rights reserved As far as workwear is concerned, you would be hard-pressed to find a more prevalent brand than Carhartt. Its only rival might be the likes of Dickies, or Timberland and Dr. Martens if you add shoes into the equation. Moreover, despite its widespread streetwear adoption several decades […]
Image credit: Mike Mozart / CC BY 2.0 If you were selecting candidates for inclusion on a Mount Rushmore of American retail, L.L.Bean would secure a nomination on the strength of their duck boots alone. To that you can add their sizable catalogue of other iconic offerings, legendary customer service, over a century worth of […]
Image is my own / All rights reserved Up here in the northern hemisphere, we’re well into the warmest part of the year. Some call it summer; others know it simply as Baggies season. For a rapidly growing group of nylon shorts-enthusiasts, Patagonia Baggies are the only pants that matter at this time of year. […]
Image credit: Jeremy Budiman on Unsplash Buying a mechanical watch is a big commitment. Sure, mechanical timepieces are objects that represent some mystical blend of beauty, sophistication, and history, and watch fans understandably fawn over them, but they can also be intimidating. They require more care and maintenance than their battery-driven counterparts and can have […]
Image credit: National Parks Gallery / Public domain As I type these words I’m busy nursing the bruised feet and sore muscles I was recently dealt by the West Highland Way. A week or so ago I walked all 96 miles (154 km) of it in six days, which meant that between the starting point […]
Image credit: Julian Myles on Unsplash My store of T-shirts gets a lot of use at this time of year. The last gasp of summer is when I am most eager to eke out the last bit of use from all my warm-weather garments while the climate still allows, and T-shirts tend to top this […]