Happy Thanksgiving from cork grips. Enter your hand turkey and win some iTunes bucks, separate contests for the big kids.
• By a Show of Hands
hand turkeys
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Benji Wagner
Benji Wagner is a photographer living and working in Portland, OR who also happens to be from around the same part of Maryland that I grew up in. Some of his most recent work has been documenting the Rapha Continental team in both still and moving pictures. I’m a fan.
• Benji’s blog and portfolio site
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Tweed Ride III
This year’s Philly tweed ride was even bigger than the last, not sure of the final head count but I had a good time riding in a sea of tweeds, herringbones, and tartans. I was pretty into the corduroy knickers on the gent pictured above, gotta find myself a pair for next year’s ride.
• previously: Tweed Ride (II)
• Tweed Ride Philadelphia
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Gloverall for Warehouse
Japan, always getting all the good stuff. A limited collaboration between Japanese brand Warehouse and English duffle coat extraordinaires Gloverall. Read about it here (jumbled google chrome translation) and buy one here if you’ve got a Japanese sugar momma. Also of note is this short Gloverall duffle made for Oi Polloi, not quite as pricey.
Buzz Rickson’s
Buzz Rickon’s is a Japanese company that recreates US military garments, not military inspired, but as true to every stitch possible as the original garments. Appropriately enough the name of the brand comes from a bomber pilot Steve McQueen played in the film ‘The War Lover’. Available here, and also check out their full 2010 catalog.
Porteurs
Races between bicycle couriers have been established long before today’s alley cat races, the French have been staging races between couriers as early as the late 19th century. The French Critérium des Porteurs de Journaux consisted of a route around Paris with a series of checkpoints. Each racer starts with a 15 kilogram load of newspapers, at each check point they had to swap out their load for a new stack of newspapers of the same weight and then make their way to the next check point. All this in 27 kilometers of Parisian streets. The final stretch of the race was an 800 meter climb up the roughly cobbled Rue Lepic to the finish line at Montmarte- the highest point of Paris. Sounds fun right?
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From one of my favorite garment specific blogs, vintage workwear. Also check out his shop: San Fernando Valley Mercantile.
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GTAM style
Scans from Michael Peyron’s guide to the Grande Traversée de l’Atlas Marocain, for more scans and excerpts see his blog here (found via) A couple used copies of the guide are up on Amazon at a premium if you’re interested (and can read french?) Look after the jump.
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