Another week and another fantastic book on tattoos sits on my lap. This time I’ve gone East in my ongoing quest for body-meets-inky-needle-knowledge by getting hold of Martha…
California love….. How many shirts do you own that are made from organic chamois cloth then? Not many I expect. No longer reserved for just rubbing up against…
Check out this devilishly cool ¼ zip sweatshirt from our dead cool biker mates over at Sideburn magazine. Featuring a Chris Watson designed Eviel Knievel style Lucifer on…
Before opening this wonderful book, I assumed it would be a promotional photo album type affair featuring loads of happy dreads and moody rudeboys in modern day Jamaican…
It would be easy for me to ramble on and on for ages about how much the literature of Irvine Welsh has affected my life. Suffice to say…
Should you need some inspiration for appropriate knitwear to see you through the season, may we be so bold as to big up a bit of Barbour Heritage?…
Maybe it’s the kid modelling these Brutus Trimfit shirts or maybe the fact they’ve used genuine prints from their archive of 1970s designs but for some reason I…
When we fantasise about winning the lottery and going on a massive splurge and buying loads and loads of our favourite things, Superdenim is one of the first…
And now something for all you fans of bicycles/hot women with paint on their arms out there. Though we’ve already got our hearts set on a Stussy motorbike…
My first thoughts on these superbly tagged-up New York shop fronts was ‘how the hell did they get away with that?!?’ Then, when I reached the end of…
In the beginning there were three pigeons; one grey, one white and one black in colour. When they were ready, the grey and white pigeons left the roost…
It seems a hell of a lot of the clothing we wear these days hails from sunny, salty Portugal, so it’s great to see an actual Portuguese brand…
We’re very fussy here at Proper when it comes to wearing baseball caps, it being all too easy to get it totally wrong and end up looking like…
Check out this short vid from Beams which show-cases some of their fine AW12 gear. As much as we admire the nice Japanese garbs on show, it’s the…
Octogenarian William Klein has been there and done it all, the painter turned photographer turned film-maker turned graphic artist seems to have captured everyone that’s mattered in popular…
Though our good friends on the East side of the USA maybe currently getting hammered by Hurricane Sandy, at least when it comes to mopping up the soggy…
It may seem a bizarre thing to say but where would we be without photography? Think of how ill-informed and ignorant we’d be without the snapshot image to…
Lucky for beardy me and my Volvo driving missus we got to see blood and gore(tex) fest ‘Sightseers’ last night, followed by a Q&A with the very talented…
Though it’s Halloween today we’re not suggesting that you get yourself a pair of these smart Red Wing leather gloves in order to get up to any dastardly…
Let’s take it back to the old school, let’s take it back to the old school… As recently documented on here I’m a lover of tattoos but far…
Never let it be said that I’m an ‘all the gear but no idea’ type, though I may spend a lot of time indoors searching ebay for vintage…