One True Saxon’s website is having a pretty good summer sale with 40% off most of their stuff. Shoes are around £50, nice anoraks for £90 and t-shirts for £19. Warning: the site’s a bit of a Flash monstrosity.
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Worn By take classic t-shirts, as worn by pop and rockstars (and presumably no longer available) and recreate them. Thus if you’ve ever wanted the Raleigh Grifter shirt worn by Marc Bolan, or the infamous Who The Fuck Is Mick Jagger ? shirt worn by Mick Jagger, then you’ll be laughing. So far, I’d say, the t-shirts are too obscure to be recognised by anyone except uber-fans, and none of them appeal to me in their own right, but I’ll definitely check back to what new ones they add.
Apparently this is not a belated April Fool’s joke. To celebrate their respective 25th birthday’s British ‘not as funny as it used to be but still pretty good’ gutter humour comic Viz and American ‘not as good as it used to be but still pretty good skatewear label’ Stussy have hooked up with a line collaborative t-shirts. They’re not fantastic (I’m not a fan of the plain white tee with a logo on) but I have to admit to being a little tempted by the one with Big Vern spraying the Stussy logo in bullet holes. This place is stocking them.
Could be good, could be crap. Designer Sales are holding a Sample Sale this weekend (Fri 3rd – Sun 5th) at Studio 95 on Brick Lane. The flyer claims they’ll have stuff from Fake London, Duffer and YMC amongst many others, although I haven’t been so it could actually be stuff from Cromwell’s Madhouse for all I know. £2 admission.
If you like Birkenstock’s funky sandals check out this German ebay supplier. They carry end-of-lines for a fraction of the UK price, delivered in 5 days. Whatever you do. don’t buy their trainers though, they ming.
Rather like this t-shirt featuring some Marvin-esque grumpy robots from Zeroboutique. Note to the webmaster of that site: if you need to have 10 point instructions on how to select a shirt – something’s too complicated.
Perusing the shops of Covent Garden on Saturday it seemed that the anorak/cagoule/windcheater is back. Out has gone the high-tech, gore-tex, extreme rambler look, replaced by a more retro, classic style. 6876 have gone for the full blown, yellow, Souwester look (see above) but cut it in a nice causal shape that looks surprisingly smart. Boxfresh have gone for a more, murky, almost camoflague look, however best of all is the ever reliable Penguin. Navy blue with white piping (unfortunately no images online) it’s the kind of thing that would have got you beaten up at school admittedly. Now however, combined with a short-sleeve check shirt, it rocks a preppy Happy Days look. Available in Urban Outfitters, Covent Garden
You probably need to look like our Gallic friend here to pull this off, but Zara have great doublebreasted trenchcoats at the moment for a mere £40 (epaulettes and belt included, Gallois and Jane Birkin not)
I saw some of these Jack Spade bags in Selfridges (in London) at the weekend and can safely say they are the nicest courier bags I’ve ever seen. Clean lines, no unecessary detailing or labels on the outside, solid construction and nicely contrasting liner colours (which you can’t see in the pic, unfortunately). They’re almost like a cross between a courier bag and a posh satchel, which is no bad thing.
Seeing James latest purchase, reminded me that Nike have just re-issued what were once my favourite trainers, the Nike Mowabb. 
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Nicely rave-tastic purple and orange colour scheme going on there, which no doubt appealed to my EMF-listening self in 1993. Nowadays though, it’s hard to imagine a scenario which would allow me, trainers and dignity to remain in close proximity. Some things are best left in 1993.