My 13 year old recently recounted a tale of a teacher to me. He was wearing what were deemed to be unsuitable shoes for school. “Would you wear…
It’s on days like today I find myself wistfully drifting away to an ethereal soundtrack involving dramatic rock music with loads of geese squawking in the background. I…
I’m going through one of my phases where football does my head in. The Under 13s I coach capitulated in a top of the table clash yesterday, going…
Peggs and Son have it pretty ok, you know. Being based down there in Brighton on the south coast means that if this country is fortunate enough to…
I used to do these, for Oi Polloi a few years ago. In the end I ran out of mad characters to create, until now that is. This…
Search on instagram for #adidasonly or #adidasonly_ and you’ll find over 30,000 results. That’s thirty thousand times the footwear loyalists have posted something to reinforce their fierce faithfulness…
As I sit drumming my fingers waiting for Nike to re-release the Lava Dome, or indeed Son of Lava dome, I’m forced to conduct a covert affair with…
Has there ever been a more apt shoe release at Birmingham’s Liquor Store? Saucony have got pretty creative with the various packs they’ve issued in the last couple…
Like something a Tusken Raider would wear to Boxercise, these new Asics x Monkey Time Gel Lyte II are probably the only gold-coloured item of footwear I’ve ever…
I came across this stuff via Instagram. It’s surprising how much good stuff is out there if you’re willing to contract insomnia and lie in bed at night…
Our new office is in a part of Manchester called Ancoats, which quite apart from sounding a bit outerweary was the world’s first industrial suburb. Not sure what that…
Remember a couple of months back when all the tough guy internet casual lads decided they no longer had a problem with carrying a tote bag about? Oi…
If you’re as keen on camo and as obsessed with Osti as us, you’ll have already seen this. But we’ve been dead busy pretending to be grown ups…
K-Way are making me quite literally bi-curious with their new range of archive gear. Don’t worry though, I’m not about to start kissing lads on the lips. My…
I got absolutely soaked this morning. The first thing I did when I got in the office was whip off my legwear and position them precariously above a…
When I was a kid, the land of the Rising Sun was just behind a pub of the same name, near Carpet World where the 192 left every…
Is there a brand out there that enjoys such widespread respect as Patagonia? They were hugging trees before everyone else saw the marketing sense it made, and they were…
As we may have mentioned, we’re just back from Berlin, where we looked at lots and lots of coats. An app suggested we walked a combined 18 miles…
Having never ventured into teutonic territory in all of my previous 37 years, I’ve now become strangely obsessed with the place. I recently watched Deutschland ’83 in just…
I’m not what you’d call a frequent flyer. I’ve probably been on a plane journey (which I’m assured sky stalwarts call ‘a flight’) less than 20 times in…
Sounding like a retro Scandinavian version of Rod, Jane and Freddy (ask your Dad if you’re under 21), this latest trio of lovely luggage from Sandqvist is all…