Image credit: Steve Johnson on Unsplash The design of what you might reasonably call the basic bandana — the ubiquitous red paisley kind worn by just about everyone from Appalachian miners to Hollywood stars — first came together a few centuries ago in Scotland. This was down to the collision of two industries, each corresponding […]
Image credit: Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash A fleece was my first great love. Forget favourite toys, first pets, or childhood crushes — the single thing that most often colours recollections of my preschool years is a fleece jacket. It was ocean green and had a bunch of white, Wes Anderson-looking fox faces all over it. […]
Image credit: Rodger Evans / CC BY-ND 2.0 In writing this week about the baseball cap, I got stuck on a detail that didn’t make the final edit of that piece but did send me down an online rabbit hole featuring several dubious message boards, patents spanning several decades, and, briefly, a three-wheeled motorcycle*. All […]
Image credit: Dylan Calluy on Unsplash Having just committed the near-fatal error of stepping out of my front door for the length of time required to put the bins out for collection, I can confirm the bad news: We are still right in the thick of winter. While my calendar app assures me that things […]