Colomibia knit seems to be the best offering from the states for ruggers
Barbarian is great too, from Canada...
They look great! Custom options too
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Tie and trainers...only bettered by socks and sandals
Also Ive noticed that the models in these late 70s to mid 80s japanese publications have to look absolutely manic in the photos...I can imagine the direction from a non-english speaking Japanese photographer, "Happy, happy, happy model-san!!"
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unironically, I do wish I had gotten a pair of Sorels back when they were made in Canada and I still lived up north .....
Im guessing they're a lot more comfortable than the bean boot?
Some of these looks are way over the top. I can't easily digest it. The amount of head and facial hair doesn't do much for me. But I love the look of the guy with the walking cane and hat; for when you've really just checked out and no longer give a damn.
But I know Bop and Stan get immense rocks off on this stuff, and I love both of them, so I can only pretend to hate it so much.
/\ my view of this Late '70s Prep aesthetic doesn't coincide exactly with the Japanese Popeye view of it ......
I'm not sure who those guys in the Popeye photos are or where those shots were taken but I personally was pretty minimal about the clothing ...
never had a moustache or beard, I learned to do without bulky coats, though freshman year I needed my big down jacket with hood for late night grinder runs, the nice tweeds, ocbds, and sweaters were there for various occasions, I'm having a hard time remembering when I even wore my Weejuns and my plain-toe Barrie bluchers though I know I wore my Red Wings a fair amount .....
but my main things in the late '70s and early '80s were Co-Op blucher mocs, Kudu Top-Siders, Purcells, Sperry CVOs, various Incontinence pants like the Country, Stan Smith, Rod Lavers, Tretorn Nylites, N!ke canvas tennies, Foot-Joy mesh/suede white/gray/gum squash shoes, and then my Levi's cords and 501 shrink-to-fits, Bean khakis, J. Press flap pockets, Brooks lambswool and cashmere v-necks from England, occasional Shetland crewnecks and Shaggy Dogs, Press Viyella and Brooks Brooksflannel shirts, and Levi's cord jackets, Lee and Levi's jeans jackets, and Champion reverse-weave sweatshirts and hoodies, and layers of t-shirts, and Wigwams and Burlington wool socks as the secret weapons, and knit wool ski hats or watch caps, couple of wool scarves/mufflers from Brooks from England ... hooded mountain anorak from Bean and nice navy Melton wool pea coat .... white tennis shorts in walk-short length, crewneck cotton t-shirts with contrasting plackets and ring necks, vintage Durene Champion varsity zip hoodie from the early '70s, and on the coldest days wide-wale cords or a pair of Bean's heavy wool Woodsman pants which were so itchy and scratchy when you were a rookie and didn't realize you shouldn't wear them without long johns .....
it was good that the individual items were so nice because I was always late then and had no time to do anything but throw the stuff on, once I had bought the stuff I didn't pay much attention to how it all went together, just knew that it did go together .....
but I just had fun wearing jeans, cords, tees, heavy cotton hoodies and sweats, thick socks and sneakers, because sometimes in the winter I couldn't deal with too much wool, it would irritate my neck in the cold weather, whereas the heavy cotton just made things smooth for me so I layered the stuff .....
it was a little tricky, being from the south and feeling the cold but dressing as if I was impervious to it, yet I did acclimatize and then could get away with my blanket-lined Lee Storm Rider trucker with cord collar and a flap-pocket over a beefy tee and be lean and mean ......
beyond this I really don't know, except that at the Seven Sisters schools they were into head to toe L. L. Bean
when I went to visit my friends at Harvard, they were wearing Shetlands, ocbds, khakis, and Weejuns and looked more normally Ivy/preppy, with roundish hornrims, whereas the Hotchkiss crew wore the rugged I described above, and when I visited Princeton it was like Revenge of the Nerds except for my old pals who were a bit wilder and wore leather motorcycle jackets in addition to their normal school clothes .....
took various trips to UMass, Wesleyan, Conn, Trinity, Tufts etc. also during those years, the L. L. Bean plus Levi's jeans was how it was done by every kid in the Northeast back then
because Bean was convenient, Brooks was for Thanksgiving and Christmas, and many people were content to leave it at that if possible .....
the items weren't being carefully sourced, they were basically what was available to us on Broadway and York Street and also through the mail from Bean ....
the clothes that truly conferred status were varsity warm-ups, hoodies, sweats, t-shirts, and jerseyz because they weren't buyable ....
I just read a New Yorker essay called "Holding the T" on taking up squash again in middle age by the preppy writer Tad Friend, and I had to laugh at this bit:
The moments that survive in memory as emblems of youth always surprise you ... walking down a garbagey Boston street on a gusty spring morning, rain pending ... I am
wearing my favorite navy-blue sweater with white bird's-eye checks, unaware that it will later become every costume designer's idea of early-eighties crap fashion.
Haha I know that essay Stan... Bean's has the Norwegian sweater back in stock for around 150, made in Norway again... we'll see if they're still around when I'm ready to drop that much cash on one in December... Otherwise it's vintage from the 'Bay all day...
I spent the first 18 years of my life 15 minutes down the road from the Bean's factory store... if only my childhood style had taken advantage of it... Whenever I'm home I go, can't stay away... Wore one of my LLB chamois shirts today under a vintage corduroy-yoke duffel vest with jeans and N!ke Cortez which I'm slowly dirtying up to peak worn-in levels...
Here in New England this is the season for late 70s prep...
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"....because Bean was convenient, Brooks was for Thanksgiving and Christmas, and many people were content to leave it at that if possible ....."
This sums up my experience(s).