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February 14, 2017
Inspiration LA 2017: Shoot Your Shot (Part Three)
Here’s our third and final round of awesome shots from Inspiration LA, the annual vintage-industry-Americana-Japanese-American-hybrid show in Los Angeles. To…
February 13, 2017
Inspiration LA 2017 Day 2: Shoot Your Shot
Here’s our second day of candid shots from Inspiration LA 2017, the huge men’s Americana show in Los Angeles. There…
February 12, 2017
Inspiration LA 2017: Shoot Your Shot
I wasn’t expecting to make it to Inspiration LA, the huge vintage-and-vintage-inspired Americana show, this year because I was supposed…
December 22, 2016
What’re The Most Under-Appreciated Vintage Items?
You could argue that vintage clothing was overshopped and overdone a decade ago, that the well of thrift shops and…
December 8, 2016
Chicago Vintage Menswear Store Visits: US #1 And Richard’s Fabulous Finds
My brief trip to Chicago afforded me just a smidge of time for vintage shopping, so I asked around and…
October 1, 2016
London: The Real McCoy’s
On the middle of an anonymous, tourist-ridden London street sits Real McCoy’s, the English outlet of the venerated Japanese repro…
September 30, 2016
Vintage Menswear In London: Levison’s
I just got home from two weeks on tour with the Judge John Hodgman podcast. We went from Maine to…
June 16, 2016
It’s On Sale: Satin Windbreakers At Ebbets Field Flannels
I bought a San Francisco Seals windbreaker last year from Ebbets, and I was so thrilled with it I bragged…
June 7, 2016
Reigning Men Part Two: The Fashioning
Yesterday we took a look at some of the more sedate styles at LACMA’s Reigning Men exhibition. Today: the wild…
June 6, 2016
Reigning Men: Men’s Style At LACMA
With in-laws babysitting a week or so ago, my wife and I headed to LACMA here in LA to check…
June 6, 2016
Ties As Metaphor
I think of ties morning, noon and night. At night, if I have insomnia, I count ties instead of sheep….
April 20, 2016
Weird & Wonderful Wildlife
When I was a kid, I had a huge coffee table book called “Weird and Wonderful Wildlife.” On the cover…
March 14, 2016
Is This The Last Zoot Suit?
We’ve written before about the Zoot Suit Riots, which weren’t exactly riots, but a widespread wildcat campaign by white servicemen…
February 26, 2016
Inspiration LA: How The West Was Won
This week we’re featuring photos Zac X. Wolf shot when we visited Inspiration LA, a huge vintage menswear show in…