Don´t know if this is the right sub for this post, it´s about NPS boots, but not Solovair. If it´s the wrong sub – boot me off! :-)
Scored these monkey boots by NPS x Heritage Research (think they are AW10/11) with a Vibram Morflex sole on a Swedish second hand site. Came in the mail today. I like them.
Retired my previous pair of Dr Martens after wearing them for a long time. Really liked them so now they hang on the wall in my sewing studio. My new (to me) pair of DM´s is a pair of MiE 8125´s with an unusual sole. Hope we will have many happy years together!
Today´s outfit for my morning walk with Sigge.
Wearing a Panama hat, linen trousers by Ralph Lauren, a vintage shirt by Thomas Pink from Jermyn Street, London (from the days when they made their RTW shirts in Ireland), shoes by Lendway & Schwarcz and vest by me.
The back of the vest was made from two pillow cases, the front from a pair of linen trousers I bought from a second-hand site on-line. The trousers turned out to be way too big for me but I liked the fabric so I used it.
This local man drove past me and Sigge this afternoon - he is truly into vintage. I don´t know what he is wearing but most of his outfit has a vintage feel to it. He is driving a vintage moped, a MCB Crescent 1209 48cc (manufactured between 1974-1980).
I like colour, something I think often shows in my posts here, but today I went for shades of grey - in a pair of black vintage Stacy Adams Madison Cap Toe Boots (aka Stacy Baldwin). The brand was new to me when I bought the boots in July but apparently it has been around for a while.
From what I´ve read on the internet the boots made in Mexico are the best quality and by chance mine are of the Made in Mexico” variety. The leather (kidskin, i.e. goat) was apparently of higher quality there than it is now – and when I had a look at the boots on Amazon, I understood why…… According to the text they make them from children’s skin now. Not very ethical……. 😊 See the last pics.
My jacket is from a Swedish brand that is long gone. The fabric was woven by an Italian mill, Ugo Rista, that also is long gone. Have a few jackets with their tweed and they really made great cloth!
The hat is a vintage Stetson, Made in the USA, not the kind we mostly get in Europe – made here under license from Stetson.
Today the morning was a bit cooler than the mornings have been in a long while. The cooler weather meant I could put on the garment I feel most at home in, a tweed jacket, and not be too warm.
Today I chose a Magee jacket in a wool that feels like Shetland. There are no labels saying that it is so I can´t be sure.
Despite me being very fond of the jacket it wasn´t my favourite garment today – that was the hat, a true vintage piece, two decades older than me.
The has been dated by a guy who runs a very good vintage shop in Stockholm. I really trust his judgement and he dated the hat to the late 40´s. It was made in Italy but sold at one of the fancy department stores in Stockholm.
The hat was a too small for me when I got it so I took off the sweatband and blocked the hat. It´s still on the smaller side but it is wearable now. Me making it slightly bigger is the reason the sweatband is too short.
Vest by me (first time wearing it). Trousers by a German brand, Strauss. Boots by Italian maker Fratelli Milloretti. Have never heard of them but I love these boots, great fit and great look (at least according to me).
Everything second hand - including Sigge, he´s a rescue!
After being called ”serial pests” in the comments under our Midsummer post Sigge and I laughed so hard that we needed a long rest to recover – the pests are back! :-)
Today I wore a knickerbocker outfit when I ran some errands in the village and walked Sigge. I´ve made the knickerbockers from a pair of 50´s army wool trousers. Vest by me. Hat is a tweed hat from Millars in Clifden, Connemara, Ireland. I´ve altered it slightly – an unaltered version was worn by Basil Rathbone in several of his Sherlock Holmes films in the 40´s. The boots are by the Italian brand Fracap.
Bag by me (made from a Magee tweed jacket).
Yesterday was a bit colder so I got to wear a jacket for the first time in a while. The jacket is a vintage one by the Swedish brand Oscar Jacobson. The shoes are from the Lendvay & Schwarcz line of the Italian shoemaker Franceschetti. The shoes are in the Budapest style, a style I discovered this summer – I like the chunkiness of them and my feet love the wide toe-box.
The tweed cap is by Hanna Hats of Donegal, Ireland.
The rest of the outfit is just no-name brands.
Today is Midsommarafton here in Sweden and that´s when we celebrate Midsummer. So Sigge and I wish you all a great Midsummer!
My outfit:
Cap by Studio Donegal (they did everything on it - started with the raw wool and dyed it, spun it etc until they put the last stitches on the cap)
Vest by my from an old table cloth
Shirt - no-name that I thrifted for almost nothing
Shorts - used to be a pair of chinos from a fancy menswear. I thrifted them and shortened the legs.
Shoes - A pair of converse that I´ve added a little something too.
Today´s and yesterday´s outfits. Managed a jump on the beach today with Sigge despite a sore foot.
Both days I wore linen pants. Today by Swedish brand Boomerang and yesterday a pair from Ralph Lauren. I´m not a huge fan of Mr Lauren but those trousers are nice.
Bags by me.
My repertoire when it comes to sewing is quite limited, I make vests, bags and I do alterations – I sometimes call them altercations because it can be a real struggle getting them to look good.
Here´s my latest vest (made from thrifted cloth/tablecloths) and bag. The bag is made from a vintage Harris Tweed jacket where the lining was in an awful state and the sleeve endings were torn up.
Used an old vest as a pattern for the vest but no pattern for the bag. Took it apart, cut the cloth in the sizes I wanted, did the hems and then loosely stitched everything together to see that it would fit/look good.
Wore a Canali jacket (probably originally part of a suit) for my morning walk with Sigge today. When new, the jacket was sold by a shop in Switzerland but it later made it up the Sweden and the back of the beyonds where I reside.
Hat – a vintage hat from German brand Rockel
Vest – from one of the Swedish High Street brands
Trousers – Moleskin trousers from a brand called Ganton Country Sports
Sneakers – Vans
Everything but the hat thrifted
Wore a double corduroy outfit today, both while walking Sigge and while going to the village to pick up a package.
Tweed cap in Donegal tweed by Hanna Hats
Vest in 4 wale by me. Thrifted the cloth
Shorts – no-name thrifted cords that I turned into a pair of shorts.
Boots – a pair of thrifted boots from Italian brand Sutor Mantellassi
Bag by me (the first jacket-bag I made)
Bought my first Red Wing´s today, a pair of used Irish Setters. Bought them online but from what I can judge they are legit, despite the fact that all info about the boots is stamped on the outside of the tongue. I think that was done on certain boots during a period of time. I googled “how to date” your Red Wings but that doesn´t help me - if I read the numbers like Google tells me they say that my boots are from July of 1986 and I don´t think they are nearly that old.
Tried to look pretty in pink when I went thrifting today...... :-) Bought some tweed fabric that I don´t know what to do with but I´ll think of something.
Pink cap - Hanna hats of Donegal. A one off, made specially for me.
Vest by me. Made it from a table cloth I thrifted.
Bag by me from a thrifted tweed jacket
The battered hat I´m wearing with the cattle is actually a Mulberry that I thrifted many, many years ago. It didn´t have a hat band then so I made one.
The cattle-jacket is a vintage Tiger of Sweden (fancy brand here) that I´ve redesigned slightly. The trousers are standard wadmal Swedish army from the 50´s.
Jump pic from a few days ago.
I sometimes thrift tablecloths because I want to use the fabric in a project (I often find colourful tablecloths for very little money). Recently I have turned four tablecloths into two vests.
I haven´t got a proper pattern so I use an old vest as a rough pattern. The first tablecloths used here are in cotton (for the pink vest) and the remaining two are linen.
The vests are far from perfect but they are “Good enough” for me!
The cap is a one off I bought from Hanna hats of Donegal, - love the pink colour!
Didn´t know I had a thing for capes until I found this. It´s in wool, don´t know the age (70´s maybe). I bought it and I´m loving it! I´m not wearing with formal clothes but over my workwear at home. Very comfy and I feel very good in it.
Shoes - Church´s from 1970 that are too big for me and a very small pair from a brand I am not familiar with. Couldn´t resist either.
Vintage women’s dresses – love the colours in these 60´s/70´s dresses and I have them hanging in my sewing room as decoration.
Vintage child garments - A very cute jacket and pair of shoes. Also hanging in my sewing room
Three outfits I´ve worn the last two days and all are vintage in some sense. The least fashionable #3, is actually the oldest, the trousers are from the 50´s and the jacket from the 90´s. I´ve done the leather alterations on the jacket. The hat is a Mulberry that I thrifted many years ago. I´ve put a new hatband on it.
The first jacket is interesting because the fabric consists of 55% Ramie (Boehmeria nivea), a material I have never worn before. It feels a bit like linen.
All bags, and photos, by me.
Thrifted these (box not original) and now I can´t find any info about them. They look like the Wrenlie, but the colour is different and these have velcro not buckles. They look brand new - they still have the inspection sticker on them.
Yesterday it was the forest but today I ventured into the city…. I took the train to Gothenburg and spent a few hours running errands and blessing myself for living in the countryside and not in the concrete jungle....
Outfit
Hat – Rockel, bought new but as deadstock
Jacket – Magee 1866, from the Swedish version of Ebay
Vest – by me
Trousers – Lanvin. Alterd by me but originally thrifted at the Red Cross charity shop in Falkenberg (found in the women’s section)
Boots – Baracuta. Red Cross charity shop Halmstad.
Tweed bag by me
In the paper bags – a later post….
Forgot to take a jumping pic so I pulled one from the archive. Hope it will do.