Thrifted a pair of Converse Chuck Taylor All-Star Hi SNS Lovikka yesterday. Not my size but the price was so low I just had to get them. The´ll make a great Christmas present to someone with smaller feet than mine.
Went thrifting today, had no luck but I still had a great time. Not much vintage in my outfit, just me and my sneakers (Converse x Undefeated Pro Leather Mid "Taffy").
Chinos - no-name brand
Vest – by me from a table cloth
Shirt – Eton (a Swedish brand)
Tweed jacket – Nino Danieli (a Corneliani sub-brand)
Hat – Made by Hanna Hats in Donegal, Ireland. When I visited them three weeks ago I picked out the tweed (woven by Magee) and ordered the hat (it´s one of their standard models but they modified it slightly for me). Hat arrived here yesterday.
Bag by me (from a tweed jacket)
I have recently taken up cycling and since I refuse to be a middle-aged man in Lycra I have made my own cycling clothes by modifying garments to make them practical, and safe, for cycling (mostly just adding reflective fabric). Not very complicated sewing but still fun and rewarding!
The two non-red shorts were made from heavy vintage suit trousers. The red shorts were made from a pair of chinos. To the jacket in pics 3 and 4 I added a zipper. I made the gilet in pics 7 and 8 a while back by ripping off the sleeves - this is the first time it really came in handy.
All garments except the red shorts and the yellow vest are in a wool or a wool/cotton fabric because wool will keep me warm even when it gets wet. The exceptions are all cotton. All outfits have reflective fabric on the back as well!
Not very complicated sewing but still fun and rewarding!
A unexpected errand this afternoon made me bring my field outfit to the village. When I was there I had to do a bit of waiting outside the school and I turned that into a photo shoot. I had fun, hope you do too if you take a look at the pics!
The outfit: a tweed coat (late 60´s/early 70´s – only in the field photos), long shorts/knickerbocker´s I´ve made from a pair of 50´s Swedish army wool pants, a wool/cotton shirt (that is truly a great fabric blend), a tweed vest and a Donegal tweed cap (Magee).
See last 2 pic for the coat.
ALL photos by me, Julio had nothing to do with them….
Today Sigge and I walked past Berte Qvarn – a place where the same family has been grinding flour since 1569 (still water powered).
My outfit today was a mix of Dopamine dressing and Power dressing. Was wearing vintage hat (60´s) (no name), linen jacket from a clothes shop in Stockholm (Rose & Born). Don´t know the age of it but I´ve had it for approx. 10 years and it wasn´t new when I got it.
No name pants.
Converse´s from 2012. Google told me they are a collab with a brand called Undefeated – I have no idea what they do or make. I bought the shoes from a second-hand on-line platform last week, just because I wanted a pair of yellow Converse´s and I googled the shoes when I got them
Vest and bag by me. The vest used to be a table cloth and the bag a tweed jacket.
Last pic is a bonus jump.
My OOTD for an event at my local Red Cross charity shop. Wearing a vintage Stetson, a tweed vest by me, no-name shirt, vintage Levi´s (Made in the UK) and a pair of Stacy Baldwin Madison boots. Bag by me (from a vintage tweed vest and a pair of selvedge jeans). Everything but the vest and bag thrifted.
I always get demands for a Sigge jump if I leave one out. He didn´t come with me today so I threw in the last pic, it´s from earlier this week. Warmer weather then so I was wearing cord shorts (used to be trousers), vintage Docs, linen vest by me and a tweed cap from Studio Donegal.
My grandparents neighbour (in Finland). The man, Ragnar, fought in all 3 Finnish wars during WW2. He worked at the steel mill but was also a fisherman and a poacher. He´s getting water from the well in the pic (there was no running water in his house)
When I put my outfit together yesterday it struck me that it somewhat resembled how I dressed in the 90´s and yet it was not similar at all. The outer contour/profile was similar but the garments were totally different (except for the Doc´s).
1993 (Black and white photo) - vintage army leather jacket. Flannel shirt (un-ironed), a sweater my mum had knitted. Black Levi´s 501. Doc Martens I bought new.
2026 Vintage hat. Shirt-jacket in wool & alpaca, wool vest, shirt (well-ironed), wool trousers. Vintage Doc Martens (from the late 90´s).
Brought my car to the annual MOT-test/motor vehicle inspection and afterwards I dropped into the small car museum located just across the street.
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.