Crescent Down Works – Hickory Stripe Vest
There’s something alluringly aloof about this goose down-padded work vest from Crescent Down Works. It successfully toes that dangerous line of looking like you’ve actually just stepped off a fork-lift and just pretending you’ve stepped off a forklift. Listen, crew: If you’re hopping on the workwear trend you gotta know the associated risks and dress in light of them. Available at RemixJP.
Universal Works – Autumn/Winter 2009 Collection
The makers of Universal Works have waved goodbye to the “fashion industry” to humbly create simple, well-made clothing men can easily make their own. Their Autumn Winter 2009-10 collection revives discarded deadstock fabrics into casually cut chinos, waistcoats, and unlined blazers while knit cardigans and fairisle pullovers speak of the cozy ease of beloved hand-me-downs.
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ts(s) – Spring/Summer 2010 Collection
Try as we might, looking crisp through the dog days of summer is an impossible feat. Better to save your sweat and rock the rumpled look with the softened un-starched selections from ts(s) and their 2010 collection. Both their billowy, smoke-colored engineer’s jackets and waistcoats as well as their cropped, poppy chinos all carry twice their weight in cool when worn willfully wrinkled.
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A.P.C. – Short Trench Coat
Its brown herringbone fabrication and truncated length position this A.P.C. wool trench as a darker and more debonair take on the wet-weathered classic perfectly suited for the grimy gloom of the long winter months. Available online at the Tres Bein Shop.
Rootage Latte Boots
In at the Oki-Ni webshop, the Rootage Latte Boot nods to the summery slip-on freedom of the deck shoe but in a winter ready suede and leather ankle-high boot. Basing their footwear around the concept of “onkochisin” which means “learning from the past in order to develop new skills” Rootage crafts their Latte boots from the finest in natural and synthetic materials for a shoe as cool as it is comfortable.
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Montsuki – Autumn/Winter 2009
Finally – a fashion line for the one-eyed set. Montsuki’s Autumn Winter 09/10 collection sets the pirate eye-patch as the constant in the styling of its 17 look line, but the slender chinos in rich ruby and gold, and the bow-tied plaid button-ups would work equally as well for non-mamed landlubbers. With fair-isle vests, firecracker red fedoras, and luxury-label inspired prints popped onto its backpacks, Montsuki loots inspiration from the golfing, derby, and designer sets as well to land a line just begging to be pillaged.
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Frank Leder – Shetland Wool 3B Jacket
A SwipeLife favorite, Frank Leder’s Autumn 09 collection tracked down European hunters and poachers as inspiration for its latest looks, with its Shetland Wool 3B Jacket as the trophy piece of the line. Employing a small factory in the Bavarian Alps to process its leather without the use of chemicals, the blazer’s buckskin rifle rest is conveniently removable for meetings and meet ups off of the mountain and outside the marsh.
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Tricker’s for Engineered Garments
Proud of its Made in the USA pedigree, Engineered Garments joins forces with the UK’s shoemaker Tricker’s for two beefy looking brogues. A classic cap toe as well as a brown on black wingtip, both models crafted in premiere pebbled leather. The solid, sturdy sort of dress shoe so dense it secretly doubles as a lethal weapon.
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Motel – Fall/Winter 2009
For Fall 2009 Motel mines inspiration from Britain’s working class over the course of the last century, from the tweed and wool outerwear of 1930s miners to name-patched blazers referencing 1960s era automobile mechanics. Durable but delightful in its detailing, the time-traveling quality of the line easily take their place in men’s daily uniforms – now and well into the future.
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Temple Bags Holiday 2009 Collection
Pairing solid brass hardware and saddle leather with re-purposed WWII duffel bags, back packs and field blankets, Temple’s line of tote, weekend, and laptop bags carry a reverent sense of history, both in their designs’ narrative as well as in the makers’ close attention to craftsmanship. An hot and hazy online video casting Temple’s bags in the role of glorious, holiday heroes veers toward man bag porn. Definitely SFW though. Visit TempleBags.com to view or purchase.
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