Featuring: Sideburn’s own Royal Enfield project bike; SWM’s 21st Century 340cc two-stroke framer; Chris Carr interview; Little Barrie’s bassist, Lewis Wharton on his dad’s grasstrack sidecar racing career;…
OK so what are you going to buy your mum (and your missus on behalf of her grateful offspring) for Mother’s Day this year? Flowers? Chocolates? Booze? Why…
What I wouldn’t give for 36 hours in North America right now, a weekend admiring sky-scrapers in Manhattan or looking at Redwoods in Yosemite would provide just the kind of break that I need.
We don’t often cover stuff like furniture like those of leather office chairs here on Proper but we’re all grown up now. We’ve got kids and degenerative health…
Inspired by the hallmarks of great design and by the classic styles of Eames, Jacobsen, Charlotte Perriand and Le Corbusier amongst others have been important influences on…
Brazil is synonymous with nice footwork and now Veja are trying to do the same with nice footwear. Well made, nice materials, Amazon-farmed rubber…the lot. Find out more…
We’re always interested to hear about a new brand of jeans that we can start to obsess over and when there’s a feel-good story attached to it, it…
At first glimpse I didn’t notice the exact detailing on this 6oz wax Bourne jacket from Barbour’s SS12 country vintage collection but being camouflage I guess that’s the…
Psst… keep it to yourself but I think I’ve just stumbled upon the Nike equivalent of Narnia. Though I’ve not encountered any Turkish Delight or Messianic lions yet…
No we’ve not organised a farm-yard rave (yet), but if you are going to one you could do a lot worse than getting kitted out in some nice bits of Folk, Barbour, Ollie Spencer, YMC, Edwin, Universal Works, etc. from menswear goldmine The Shed Community.
As you may or may not know, our Swedish mates Our legacy opened their first store in Stockholm last Friday. The inspiration behind the lay-out is based on…
Bit of a double whammy here from the UK’s finest trainer-istas New Balance. In the form of two limited edition collections made to commemorate their 30 years of…
Occasionally our chatty nature takes us off on undercover missions. One such mission has been helping a new publication by the name of Manufacture. In an effort to…
How cool are these on a scale of one to ten? Eleven. It’s Han’s uniquely Danish take on the classic Wayfarer, just in time for the sunshine to…
I bought some New Balance from Urban Industry the other week. I bought the wrong size. Sometimes I do that because I’m silly. Thankfully I was able to…
Whilst we wouldn’t recommend jumping out of a plane with one of these great looking bags they are the perfect accompaniment for anyone hopping on or off one. Chapman has taken the classic WW2 Paratroop Haversack design and updated it for those of us more used to the conventional way of exiting an aircraft.
As this site is all about recommending stuff that we love, we thought we’d share with you the Spring Summer 12 look-book from one of our favourite brands, Edwin.
Having taken delivery of one of the finest pairs of trainers I have owned in recent years, I felt compelled to look into the name and history behind this enigmatic trainer, namely the Nike ‘Pre’ Montreal Racer. It seems the ‘Pre’ in the name is something of a legend, a ‘James Dean of the running world’ no less.
As you may or may not know we’re a bit of a sucker for a great looking bag here at Proper Magazine. Obviously not just any bag though…
Change my pitch up… smock my bitch up…. No that doesn’t really work does it? Anyway you know the drill, Manc luxury Yacht-wear legends Henri Lloyd, renowned for keeping solo-navigators, paninaros and ticket touts the world over bone dry and looking good, have released the latest version of their much-coveted & copied ‘Viking’ smock.
Given our unpredictable climate and chaotic lifestyles it’s often difficult to decide whether to put on a pair of ‘proper’ functional hiking boots or a pair of ‘proper’ shoes whilst pondering each days outfit (if you don’t go through this daily ritual then please stop reading immediately).