/\  that sweater looks deluxe Walker, very good acquisition, wear it in good health,

last night I was going through some clothes and I found that very shirt, in its wrapping paper with tags ... I've never worn it but I'll bust it out this week, I saw it and said damn what I am I waiting for at this point?

then as chance would have it here comes old Johnny Lee Walker wearing my/our shirt

I don't have any chunky cardies but the gray marl is just right with that shirt, I would endeavor to approximate the combo as best I could with my gray lambswools and Shetland crewnecks

interestingly enough in the same box of goodies was a pair of vintage US 505s, which I also accessioned as I prepare to give my current beater 501s a hell of an annual wash and dry

because the Brooks shirt is actually in a summery broadcloth and it's slated to be cool this week I'll be wearing a USA oxford bd in a white/red/green/yellow Christmas plaid instead but the NOS Brooks in the above pic will debut shortly

good inspirations

/\  I found a pair of red tag 505s in a washing machine at school, back when all Levi's were made in the USA, I left them there, when I went back a week later they were there on the floor of the laundry room next to the washing machine ... I nabbed 'em ... definitely

I have two pairs of USA 505s, one red tag, one orange, love them both, they fit me fine in the thigh, they don't get baggy like my weathered 501s but I like baggy jeans

in fact today I'm in full shoegaze mode with a pair of baggy straight-leg jeans I got 10 or 12 years ago from a now-defunct hardware store that also used to carry the good farm boots so essential to the 1969-71 rustic hippie Ivy look, I bought the boots but they were way too nice for farming, I should have gotten two pairs, because the boot company also went out of business

and the one and only time I saw an NOS pair on eBay I spaced and somebody else BIN'd them, that one hurt

my baggy jeans, an own-vintage Puma long-sleeved t-shirt in black and white, and a pair of Incontinence pants New York SPZLs

it's a hybrid casual, hip-hop, shoegaze deal but the jeans are rural hardware store Ivy and my hippie belt is from England and it's 20 years old, pure Kiln House style

/\  trying to get away with no socks in sub-freezing weather was such a rookie mistake for me when I was 17 but this dude's no rookie!  hardcore something but no rook.

but all it took was some raggs and I could continue to wear the blucher mocs and Top-Sider kudu captain oxfords all winter long

ragg socks for Christmas everyone

I like Wigwam El Pine socks and my current crop is getting a little, well, raggy.

Hahaha that's actually not too far off.