Stylish. Compact. French. Whilst sounding like the rejected marketing slogan for a Renault bubble car, these four words are instead a fairly convenient way of summing up the…
Coming from a military family I learned early to always carefully avoided the ‘having-to-do-as-you’re-told’ route in life and never joined-up but I’ve always been a sucker for a…
Our Legacy are from Sweden. So, they’re cooler than you for a kick-off. They’re also responsible for loads of really lovely clothes, so you don’t stand a…
We interrupt the amazing SS14 clothing news to bring you something entirely different, a graphic novel about a super dysfunctional and supernatural family known as the Bojeffries. From…
Fjallraven is one of those lovely niche brands that you only really see on other clued up people and/or the nerdy kind of girls who work at the…
Being a small business owner, a bag is essential for storing all the small business owner essentials that a small business owner needs. I carry all-sorts in mine.…
Looking like they’ve just bounced in from a late 80’s motorway service station car park, the ZX710 are another welcome example of Adidas’s ‘getting it right’ reissues policy…
Drawing inspiration from Summer holidays in Scotland and 1970s field trips it’s no surprise that ex-Cabourn cohort Kestin’s latest Common People collection features an array of jackets perfectly…
We’ve already written about Garbstore recently. Twice to be exact. I could link up both articles but then you’d click those links and be taken away from this…
As I type this I’m lying lopsided on my bed. In my bedroom, obvs. I’m squinting like a teargassed protester though, because the sun is rudely intruding through…
Everyone seems to think tennis shoes are going to be big this year. Here at Proper we’re not bothered about following trends. Well, not much anyway. That said,…
“Every woman, every man; Join the Caravan of love; Stand up, Stand up, Staaaaaand Uppppp” so sang the Hull based, politicised pop foursome The Housemartins. Now, as sartorially inclined…
Archetypal Hikerdelic brand are back once again for Spring/Summer at The Original Store. Nano puff jackets, lightweight camo and the coolest bags we’ve seen years and years are the…
You can’t beat a bit of Barbour. True dat innit. No matter how ubiquitous certain models in their roster become – Internationals or Chelsea Quilts – amongst the…
Whether you like it or not, Stone Island is a pretty unshakeable brand. Firmly favoured by football fighter men in Europe, and rumoured to be the brand of choice…
Call me premature (my Mrs does*) but I’m already scratching around the web for a nice lightweight coat to wear when it stops pissing down and blowing a…
It’s sort of a blazer, it’s sort of a jacket. It isn’t really either. Such is the nature of the Reverse Prison Off Cut Blazer (to give the…
I was walking through Manchester’s fashionable Northern Quarter (TM) a few months back. Four lads passed me, each wearing a curious colourway of New Balance. “They’re here!”…
Maybe I’m the odd one out here because I’m all chuffed about going to see Prince but S.E.H. Kelly have attempted to capture the rather glum mood of…
“….and as if by magic a shopkeeper appeared.” Now if you’re a young whipper-snapper you will probably have absolutely no idea what those words mean and grew up…
This is a proper dead good mega time of year for those of us who love a decent jacket innit? When the double goodness of your favourite shop…