Beams Plus..... by Shaun Dangerfield

Beams Plus has quickly turned into my most bought label of recent times, I love the quality materials and simple designs and it was only by chance I saw this dead stock piece from last summer at a heavily reduced rate.
Beams+ linen red shawl collar knit with wood buttons, I clocked it last summer but I was concerned over the structure of it from the pictures that were doing the rounds so I put it off and forgot about it until the latest browse revealed this last piece left and thought I'd take a punt on it, glad I did as its a beast, sturdy and right up my street style wise.

Arpenteur.... by Shaun Dangerfield

Made in Lyon, France. Arpenteur make French military and work wear inspired clothing from locally sourced fabrics and keep all the production work in house.
Taking inspiration from the 1920's-50's period it churn's out good honest simple clothing easily wearable and of good quality.
This green duck hunting vest is a great fit, sturdy in build and a lovely colour.
(Great artwork to boot.)
The first three photos are with flash and are more of a true colour, the other photo's are no flash but taken at night so the colour isn't as nice but shows the detailing on the garment.

I've stolen these photo's from the Arpenteur blog as I quite like the highlighting of the natural dyeing process.
For spring summer 2013.

The photos below those are of this a/w2012 wool vest and jacket purely just for some clothing porn as I think they were great items.

Denimhead..... by Shaun Dangerfield

It's no secret that I love denim, the wearing in process to the first soak, the history of it all and especially pictures of the ageing process.
I know that sound's massively geeky but that's just the way it is.
One of the copies I have of Lightning Magazine has some great shot's of vintage denim and denim related pieces and I've been meaning to put a few photos up from it but I've not got round to doing so until now, they might interest you.... they might not.
The magazine itself goes right the way back to the 1800's and through all the denim labels and to be honest it was way too much to put on here although I wish I could.
Unfortunately as it's a Japanese magazine and the details are in Japanese I couldn't date anything up apart from starting up with the vintage Buddy Lee doll that after a bit of research I found out were first made in 1920 and ceased production in 1962.....

 Vintage Levis ball cap.....

 Another Buddy doll from Lee

 Front page...

 Levis squash racket cover....

 Levis raggy dolls....

 Denim clothing for dolls....

You can have a browse around the webpage through this link below....
LIGHTNING MAGAZINE

And there's a good read from the editor of lightning (and founder of 2nd magazine) Atsushi Matsushima in this link below...
ATSUSHI MATSUSHIMA