January 2023

Image credit: Zui Hoang on Unsplash If Plato inside his cave had a Rolodex of his eponymous forms, the entry for ‘shoe’ might well show the Converse All Star. It’s hard to think of a more iconic and enduring piece of footwear from the last century. Certainly, there are few as widely worn and imitated. […]

Image credit: simpleinsomnia / CC BY 2.0 Chinos, like so many of the clothing items we wear in our everyday lives, can be traced back to military origins. Since their invention in the mid-nineteenth century, chinos have made the long journey all the way from the terrors of the battlefield to the banality of the […]