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FIVE YEARS IN THE MAKING : THE OAK STREET TRENCH BOOT.


When OSB‘s George Vlagos set out to create the Trench Boot, based off an old beat up pair of GI’s boots from the 40′s he’d picked up years before, it turned into a design process that would span five years, countless tweaks and modifications and plenty of wear testing. To hold just the right shape, and not satisfied with what was available, an entirely new last, the Elston, was created embodying the spirit of the Windy City and named after the street on which the citys’ own venerable, 107 year old Horween Leather is located. The result, two versions of The Trench Boot, a seriously handsome, seriously tough boot and like all OSB footwear, designed for longevity. After the jump, your first look at the all new Oak Street Bootmakers Trench Boot.
 

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FIELD TRIP : THE HILL-SIDE VISITS OLD VIRGINIA.


Recently, Emil and Sandy Corsillo from The Hill-Side took a trip down to rural Virginia to pay a visit to “Old Bob the Weaver”, the man behind The Hill-Side’s “Old Virginia Modified Herringbone“. While there, aside from feeding Bob’s chickens and drinking numerous varieties of good ole corn liquor(#sojealousduh), they took some video and made a damn good video documenting the process, pretty much the same today as it was a hundred + years ago. According to Emil and Sandy, “Old Virginia Modified Herringbone fabric is woven for The Hill-Side in rural Virginia by Bob, whose family has been weaving fabric in Virginia since the 1870s. He weaves this fabric in a weaving building in his back yard, on a 1939 Crompton & Knowles W3 shuttle loom. With the help of his wife and one assistant, he winds the warp beams, ties in the warp, winds the bobbins, and runs the loom all under one roof. Bob designed the “Modified Herringbone” weaving pattern himself.”

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THE FALL THREE : TODD BARKET, UNIONMADE.


Todd Barket. Long time friend of Secret Forts. Of THE always wonderful and ever-evolving Unionmade and most recently, Mill Mercantile. All around great guy and certainly one of the hardest working guys in #menswear. Happy to have Todd contribute again this year. Here’s Todd’s Fall Three.
 

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HEAD TO TOE : BLACK AND BLUE.





 

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY : THE 990 TURNS 30.


On the occasion of their iconic M990 turning thirty, New Balance has reproduced the shoe in its original, stripped down style. A style very familiar and dear to me and one I’ve been waiting for some time to see put back into production. I’ve written about these before. (it was even published in Martha Stewart’s Whole Living a while back.) In the early 80′s, as a boy, I was given a pair of 990s by my father, an avid marathoner, that I wouldn’t be able to actually wear for a few years to follow. As soon as I was able to fill them out however, and ever since, I’ve spent the last couple of decades wearing them damn near into the ground.


 

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GET HANDSOME : POP UP FLEA. (#duh)



Pop Up Flea. A Continuous Goldberg’s fifth go around. This needs little by way of introduction or description. Lots of great people involved, loads of great stuff. Man up, get over there and get handsome. Today Through Sunday.

Pop Up Flea V
Friday, Nov 30th 3pm – 9pm
Saturday, Dec. 1st 11am – 7pm
Sunday, Dec. 2nd 11am – 6pm

Drive-In Studios
443 W. 18th Street (nr. 10th Ave.)

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BY THE OFFICE OF CHARLES AND RAY EAMES : THE POLAROID SX-70 LAND CAMERA


“From infinity down to ten inches.”

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HEAD TO TOE : SAY CHEESE.






 

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MOVING PICTURES : A JACKET FOR LIFE.


Attendant to the recent post on my 12+ year old Bedale comes “an intimate portrait of the relationship between Barbour and its customers seen through the Customer Services Dept at South Shields…” This wonderfully shot video directed by Jan Cawood & Magali Pettier for Tin Man Films UK, not only focuses on the plainly functional, enduring (repaired when necessary) quality of the Barbour but more so the deep attachments formed between garment and wearer. That and the strange things people leave in their pockets. All of which I can personally attest to.

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