11/07/2014
This week sees the first part of our UK road trip. Flying to London, renting a car, driving to Brighton. Two days in each place, taking in interesting things underway, both sights, food and shopping. Onwards to Bristol and Bath, via Shepton Mallet (worth a visit if you like Mulberry). Nice to see some original work by Banksy in his…
10/07/2014
So, Summer is here and you want to get your rebel on. Not the Billy Idol sneer and peroxided mullet, but more of a rebel with no discernible cause. 50’s style James Dean is more the ticket, ladykiller and generally too cool for school. The white t-shirt is like the yin to the denim yang, and you already have the…
08/07/2014
Welcome to the absolutely final review of this round of Trouser Tuesdays. Rounding off a full bakers dozen of reviews we today arrive at Scottish brand Common People. Common People is the brainchild of Kestin Hare and is only some 4 years old. Still fairly small and under the radar, there is a single shop in Edinburgh and it’s available…
04/07/2014
Another weekly Instagram roundup, with no trouser review or otherwise wordy piece of prose to create a fine olde blog sandwich? Sorry, what with houseguests and my real job I’ve not managed to complete any new posts this week. I hang my head in shame and can only offer up a selection of fresh photographic evidence. Normal service will be…
27/06/2014
And we’re back with another fine summary of the week that was, by way of another prominent pictorial revue offering highlights of my humble existence. Without further ado, this is what you missed by not following my every footstep on Instagram the past 7 days. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Nick / Slower Menswear (@welldresseddad) View this…
26/06/2014
While on our usual Saturday morning trip to town this week, I joined WDG in visiting the new local ethical clothes shop. Ethical clothes shop? Sounds really lame and hippie-like, right? I could have come up with a more enticing and juicy description instead of a really poor, though short, description, so your derision is entirely my fault. Something along the…
24/06/2014
As I’ve mentioned before, one of the joys of writing a blog is in discovering new things. Travelling to a new place, finding new and interesting things, talking to people and hearing their stories and opinions. Todays review, which is almost the final review of the bakers dozen in this round, is from a brand that first came to my…
22/06/2014
I’ve mentioned before how I occasionally get really strange mails in relation to my blogging. Mails that seem so ill-researched that sometimes I have to wonder how on earth I came up in their results. At the end of January I got such a mail. I can only imagine Agnes, the researcher at Princess Productions in London, had googled “dad”…
20/06/2014
As another week comes to close, it’s time for the weekly roundup of the photographic art, or shameless self-promotion if you like, I’ve published on Instagram since last Friday. Sorry that the book “Denim Style” features on 3 of the entries, it really is pretty awful (read my review here). Livid Jeans also featured well, their review is here. I’m quite humbled by the fact…
19/06/2014
The big denim news at the moment has been the release of the book “Denim style”, by photographer Horst Friedrichs. About 90 pages long (“about” as in “they forgot to number the pages and I’m not about to count them”), it’s a collection of photos of various British denim-fans wearing their denim outfits. Friedrichs is a professional photographer and has previously done…