Sweat Shopping

 Couple of sweatshirt pickups seeing as it's getting a bit chilly.

Garment dyed 2017 Stone Island via a forum. The deep green is more spring colourway than autumn but it's a very soft, comfortable sweat. 

Also a classic dark navy Folk. Basic in style and substance but there's nowt wrong with that. Been getting plenty of Folk gear recently, stay put for further posts of autumn staples - the overshirts.

 

Casual Co-op

The Overlook. That hat sought the world over from horror film fans to your above average dresser at Nottingham Forest. Anyway I've got one and it'll piss you off threefold -

1) Given the inflation busting prices on eBay I got this for mates rates (a score) via CC forum.

2) I've never seen The Shining.

3) I'll probably hardly wear it.

Anyway I've got one so hatters keep hating.

Next up not such a success story. Been after a grey sweat for a bit and when the chance came for a Lazyitis sweatshirt I was on it quicker than you could say Wimoweh. However the XL is still a bit snug so it's listed in the GoodNorthern shop. Fastest fingers first. Still worth posting about though on this Happy Monday...

And finally to complete the CC love in a bit pin badge love - even more so as This Thing of Ours a freebie from Mr Love himself Hess the Horse. To complete the rout the recently-pulled-due-to-a-potential-court-injunction-and-now-rarer-than-a-green-edger-on-a-Nick-Love-Generation-wannabe Dead Hard pin. The funny thing is I'm not, it says I am. Now that I've mentioned I'm not (even though it says I am), must be terribly post modern...

Thrifty Shopper

I love a bargain. Here's a few purchases I've amassed in past few months via cheap but not always tasteful means...

GANT - Brand new, in my size and all for the low low price of £3.50 from the local hospice charity shop. Quality find that proves visiting your local thrift shop, despite leaving hundreds of times empty handed, eventually leaves you quids in...

CC Sweat - Had this since the summer actually, but now we've got to autumn it'll get a bit of wear. Full Metal Jacket inspired Viet conflict sweatshirt that says 'Yeah I support the boys overseas, but I'll do it whilst lounging round at home in a quality sweat. Deal with it". £12 from fleabay.

Decent Denim - Lost a fair bit of weight (two stone to be precise) so needed some new jeans as my arse was slipping off in the old ones. A lot of spoken about Japanese selvedge and the like, but I've headed West for the heritage brands of the US in Levi and Lee. By west I mean I went to the local TKM.

Woolrich - You can't beat a bit of Wooly. Got this vintage shirt from bay of despair for a few bob. Not sure what the design pattern is, but provides a bit of welcome relief from all checks in the wardrobe - Smart chambray with fossils. An added bonus is that it's a large. Get in there you formerly fat bastard.

Minster Moors - Love a shoe that looks like a burnt asymmetrical cornish pasty. So just as well I snapped these prime Minsters from the Connoisseur forum for a price of similar worth to fifteen of the Cornwall delicacies...

Faconnable - My favourite shirt brand of all time, but now available as a cap. Wow. Admittedly I'm not a cap wearer (my basey and Air Max days are about a fifth of a century behind me) but this was going for free on above said CC forum. Will name and shame the kind member - Hax. A true Gent who gave me holiday headwear for the price of a fart (only nice)...

Loaded - I only bought it for the articles. No really. Back in 1995 there were no semi nipped lasses in Loaded. Anyway a Great and Straight (Yeah) Shaun Ryder discusses newly formed Black Grape, plus a decent interview with the yet to be disgraced Ron Atkinson and an article on Casuals shopping. From Bay for a bob or two, expect a blog involving this in the not too distance future...

Coal not Dole - Pin badge for a quid. Just doing my bit, a show of support for the NUM. The union will never cave in...

Serpico - Gone full circle and back to the same charity shop where I got this cult classic, that I've shamefully never owned, for 50p. Widescreen edition too so I can appreciate the great mans beard and choice in hats in all there glory...

Sweat Shopping

Sweatshirts. They look cool. But I've always struggled to find any that excite me. So therefore, sweatshirt less, I'm uncool. Actually I'm over warm, sweating my balls off in a lambswool knit, when what's required is a temperature controlling cotton pullover.

Anyway my wait is over, finally found a corker of a sweatshirt that's Rich in quality. Woolrich are one of the USAs finest in outdoor clothing, and rather pleasingly, were started by an Englishman. John Rich was fresh off the boat in the late 1800s, landing in the new world looking to seek his fortune. Found it he did, and for numerous years now his fine wares have been making their way back across the pond, and finding themselves on the backs of Casual Men up and down the terraces.

Love the design of this. Always like the V shape on the crew neck. I find it rebellious. Like the cheap BHS roundnecks you used to wear at school when the uniform was a proper big wooly V neck. Also love the minimum branding, with just a small tab externally on the ribbed hem. It feels a million dollars on.

Also snaffled a RL 1/4 zip sweat too. Because why not.