Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Archival Field Trip: NYC/Brooklyn (Pt 2)

Back in Eugene, I'm fast forwarding through some more snapshots from our recent trip to NYC.

If you live in NYC, you should be watching a movie nearly every night. No excuses. During our trip, we were able to catch a screening of Frederick Wiseman's new documentary, Boxing Gym. In a future post, we will review some of the archival workouts found in Wiseman's film. Our favorite: striking an old truck tire with a sledge hammer. In an "only in NY" moment, our Wiseman evening concluded unexpectedly with an audience Q&A led by an NYU film professor and a professional boxer ("The Polish Punisher").

I stalked these gents down the street near Freemans Sporting Club. I was curious about the untreated natural duck shoulder bag, assuming it was a special Tokyo-only item. I later found it at J.Crew.

Sunday morning, we dropped by one of my favorite NYC shops, Barbour by Peter Elliot. I know most of the inventory by heart but I was surprised by this new Barbour waxed cotton blazer w/integrated quilt liner.

Tempted by the trim fit of the Barbour Bedale for children

Beautiful pocketing detail on a Barbour x To Ki To jacket






During our visit to Freemans Sporting Club,we ran into these friends of Archival Clothing (Seattle transplants). For obvious reasons, we love Freeman's ethos of producing locally made, heritage inspired clothing from the best quality materials. The chore jacket in 5.5 oz Waxwear waxed cotton is a personal favorite.

Fellow Oregonian and A Restless Transplant blogger, Foster Huntington, joined our archival walking tour Saturday afternoon.





Quick pause at the J.Crew Liquor Store.







Since we sell our Archival Rucksacks through Peter Buchanan's Best Made Co, we wanted to stop by his studio and meet Peter in person. We chatted about the genesis of Peter's axe project and a mystery chore coat he picked up in Sweden. Turns out the jacket is made by Saint James and it's a model readily available through our own distributor (if you're interested, email me). Per normal, the size small jacket fits me (and Tom) like David Byrne's suit in Stop Making Sense. Lensman Foster took some great snaps of the studio visit.



On Sunday, we made a pilgrimage to MOMA to see the Frankfurt kitchen and some time based art.




On Monday, Tom and I finished up our tour of shops. We stopped at Odin, a great NYC menswear shop that carries Engineered Garments, an Archival Clothing favorite. I was impressed by the friendly, low key store staff. They didn't seem to mind me snapping ten thousand views of my current obsession, a ripstop cotton pea coat by Engineered Garments. During our visit, a delivery gent came by to pick up a package for GQ. I considered slipping an A.C. bag into the bundle.







Friend Jing, aka Hands on with X, recommended that we visit Blue in Green, "a men's lifestyle store," which she shops from Australia. Blue in Green specializes in men's fashion from Japan, England, Italy, France and the United States. Not surprisingly, our favorite items--shirts, denim, and jackets--came from Japan. The Real McCoy rigger boots were total show stoppers.




FWK Engineered Garments for women


New trousers for Tom

Heritage poncho

Nearing heritage overload, our last stop on our tour was the Nepenthes store in the garment district. Tom chatted with one of the staff while I headed to the back area of the shop to view the FWK Engineered Garments collection for women (review to follow).


We picked up a few bagels (consolation biscuits) for our return flight back to Eugene.

2 comments:

Wesley Verhoeve said...

that looks like a really really great trip :) I'm lucky to live right in between it all :)

Anonymous said...

wow, you guys know how to have a good time. what a great collection of photos and views.