bobcap

Bobcap.. great name. JPress. British wool; watchcap meets Aran sweater. On sale too, even better -$36.

duluth trading company

Nail and money bags, pocket knives, field watches, American Optical glasses, own-brand moc toes... all reasonably priced. Duluth Trading Company. (thx to the silent partner of 10e) They have a whole line of clothing made of fire hose canvas (as the hat above) that makes a good story;

Fire Hose is a 100% cotton canvas that's so rugged yet flexible it was once used to wrap fire hoses all across America. It has a well-worn, venerable, broken-in feel that speaks volumes about the blazes fought and battles won and lost. It'll feel like a natural the second you put it on.

mt baker baked salmon

Love this sort of thing (talking to you Washed Up Cup)... will be checking yobeat and the twitters for updates on the 2010 Mt. Baker Legendary Banked Slalom this weekend. They bake salmon on the grill for lunch, that is the little pun...

Have never been but looks like a fantastic down-homey event... hell the winner gets a Pendleton blanket, a Detroit jacket and a golden roll of duct tape. And racing, just can't beat that. YeAH Bro poINt It!! I know snowboarders can get a little *ahem* deep sometimes, but the thoughts and images from JakeStangel's photo essay of last year are 100% sincere. As he says "You should read this, especially if you don't snowboard."

dunkin donuts -dunks

The first DnD in Quincy, MA.
Image via doobybrain via Dunkin Donuts' corporate archive.
Dunkin' Donuts has turned 60. Sort of how I get a weird charge from seeing someone enjoying a cigarette (I mean really enjoying it, not posing) -seeing the brand loyalty to Dunks here in New England is an anthropological marvel. I've been approached in random airports, magnet like, with where is Dunkins??, for carrying a half finshed coffee off a flight (pre-liquid ban). Fantastic, long, older article about the history of Dunkin' Donuts from the Boston Phoenix; Choosing Your Religion (2007).

One early Dunkin’ store sat across the street from a Ford assembly plant in Somerville, Slate’s Bryan Curtis writes, “guaranteeing [Rosenberg] hundreds of loyal rivet-heads.” And when Rosenberg started granting franchise licenses, “He hewed to the blue-collar wards of New England and the mid-Atlantic, which had built-in constituencies.” But for all his working-class bona fides, Rosenberg was a businessman. His coffee, even in the 1950s, was overpriced: 10-cents a cup was twice the going rate.

Here is that article from Slate about the slight changes to market and image of Dunkin Donuts in the new millenium.

Dunkin' Donuts still boasts some gruesome pleasures: "The Great One," a 24-ounce coffee chalice, and the Double Chocolate Cake Donut, which carries 310 calories and has the texture and density of igneous rock. But over the past five years the chain has sought to burnish its pastries with a glaze of class: Dunkin' Donuts is reinventing itself as an upstairs-downstairs coffee house.

Never saw this recent ad... reminds me of buddies on the South Shore, heading out to fish at the canals etc.



One thing I never understood though, since DnD sponsor the Red Sox so much, how come you can't get coffee at Fenway... on those cold nights I've wanted one a bunch of times... Litigation worries? Spilling hot coffee?? Old news but remember those 2008 Red Sox prints Somervillen Chris Speakman did as a promo set for DnD; still a bunch on ebay.

junya watanabe x carhartt

SlamJam posted a bunch more pics of this dialled-to-11 project from Junya Watanabe's EYE that you may have seen already (via Selectism). First alerted to this by The Nonplace (killer, highly selective site btw, a must add to the rss). If you haven't heard it already, the story is that Watanabe went out and bought 100 stock Carhartt chore coats (similar to this I imagine) and deconstructed, then reconstructed them with added leather trim, elbow patches, wool, blaze and camo accents... In. Sane. Image below via The Nonplace.

evarts & jordan

This tiny hunting outfitter flew right under my radar... The product of two southern Vermont gents, maybe a generation above me. Incedently, Evarts had the sharpest dressing parents I ever met... father was the gold standard for go-to-hell wear (saying that w/ complete respect and awe you understand) and mother was literally the Queen Bee -taught Pops alot of what he knows about apiculture. The Evarts & Jordan line is serious wingshooter terrritory. Tweed or ventile everything; infact their own signature tweed (further reading)... and even their own brand of wellingtons -custom made by Hunter. Merino socks and flashes knit in Scotland, on and on really...




Still reading? Ready for the kicker... the gut punch... this short-lived project didn't survive past 2005. Great looking tweed.

parenting -drop mfg

Drop Mfg are entering the goggles game for 2010/11, and are thoughtfully making a junior ripper line for the kids, which includes their artist collabs (Bigfoot above.) $35 I believe?? Nuts. As in mutts.

parenting -homemade bubble gum

Weekend is now booked...

686 x levis

This collab comes back for 2010; though the men's version are a little too tweaked for me. (This is winter gear incase just joining now). For the ladies they pretty much left the Levis jacket/jumper details alone as below. They have it in black denim too for the Mrs. Cash look. Never hurts.

100% cotton 3-PLY denim fabrication, fully taped seams, raw edge seams and contrast stitching accents, RECCO® advanced rescue technology, water-resistant zipper(s) -via 686

carhartt europe -s/s2010

Further reading; CarharttEurope.