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From now until Father's Day, enjoy free domestic shipping on all Archival items including our new tees, dopps, kerchiefs and packs. 

From the Archives: ¡Something Festive!

¡Something Festive! is my all time favorite holiday LP. I bring it out right after Thanksgiving (along with Christmas on the Bandstand) and keep it on the turntable well into January.

I own multiples copies of SF for fear that it will be damaged or lost or permanently disappear from the second hand market (a consumer strategy I extend to bag and jacket acquisitions).

Here's the playlist.

¡Something Festive! features most of the top A & M recording artists of the day like Sergio Mendes & Brazil 66, Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass and Liza Minnelli (to the relief of some, The Carpenters are missing from this album).

If you spot a copy of ¡Something Festive! in the LP bins at Goodwill, buy it and add it to your archives. But first, examine it closely to make sure a scratch is not running through the album's most brilliant track, B3, Claudine Longet's grim rendition of Snow (sounding like an ancestral version of the theme song to Twin Peaks).

Wishful Shopping - Archival Edition

1.  Archival x Hollows leather cuff - $45
2.  Juniper Ridge Bar Soap - $10.00
3.  Archival Dopp Kit - $60
4.  Archival Marled Knit Cap - $18.00
5.  Benjo's Boot Laces - $9.00

Here a few last minute gift suggestions from the Archival web shop.  If you're local to Eugene (or Oregon), stop by our offices now through December 21st to make holiday purchase and see samples, prototypes, samples and other goods not listed on our site.  To set up an appointment - email info@archivalclothing.com.

Wishful Shopping - Analog Edition

Here are some analog items that I wish I were buying as gifts (or, in a true Christmas miracle, unwrapping myself).  Since many of these artifacts are out of production or difficult to source,  I  recommend that you print out the images below and create your own wishful tree ornaments.

 

Contax T2 - via ebay 

 Rene Herse - Bicycle Quarterly Press 

 Audiotronics vintage turntable - via ebay

Clairefontaine french ruled notebooks

 

Stowa Flieger Wristwatch 

 

 New York Times - Print Edition

Vintage Pelikan Ballpoint Pens - via ebay

Archival Shop Small Weekend

In celebration of Made in USA goods produced by small manufacturers, we will be featuring three Archival product promotions for our fans this extended weekend - Thursday through Monday. Our special promotion will include: Archival Flap Musettes, Wool Scarves, and Dopp Kits. With each purchase of a featured Archival product, we will include a small gift. This is our way of introducing you to another US manufacturer. Take a look at our Holiday Gift Ideas for the three Archival specials and more. Orders of $100 qualify for Free domestic (ground) shipping. Thank you for your generous support of Archival and small businesses manufacturing in the US!

Archival Thanksgiving

 

If you're suffering from routine holiday fatigue consider adopting the lost practice of Thanksgiving Masking.  In the late 19th and early 20th century, children used to dress up in masks and beg, door to door, for pennies or fruit.  The Maskers practice eventually morphed into what we now know as Halloween.  But rather than looking out of date, I find the Maskers' ensembles refreshingly stylish, and cutting edge, akin to the layered, hyper Americanized looks found in the Japanese fashion magazine, Free & Easy.  This Thanksgiving day, I encourage you to assemble your own Maskers ensemble for a post meal perambulation through your neighborhood.

 

 

Images courtesy Library of Congress Flickr Commons.

An Archival Salute

Xmas from the archives

From News in 1910s (via LOC)

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM ARCHIVAL CLOTHING

Lesli and I will be following the lead of the Sydney Society of Artists for our New Year's Eve celebrations.

Thanks for your readership and support in 2010. It has been a ball to start producing our Archival Clothing goods, and we're looking forward to plenty of progress in 2011. As always, don't hesitate to email us with questions, comments, and dream projects. Happy New Year!

Paul Petrov, backstage on New Year's Eve 1931 (via)

A Christmas Memory (Perry 1956)

Next to Fanny & Alexander and Brazil, A Christmas Memory (Perry 1956) is my favorite holiday film. Narrated by Truman Capote and starring Geraldine Page, A Christmas Memory proposes seasonal rituals I'd like to reenact: paper kite construction, Christmas tree salvage, serving nips of Whiskey to minors and mass fruit cake production (funded through the staging of a "fun and freak show").

Our family VHS copy of A Christmas Memory has warped and color shifted to blue. However, I locate a copy on YouTube (in 6 segments!). Watch it before it disappears from view.

"Oh my," she exclaims, her breath smoking the windowpane, "it's fruitcake weather!"

Together, we guide our buggy, a dilapidated baby carriage, out to the garden and into a grove of pecan trees.


But before these purchases can be made, there is the question of money. Neither of us has any.

Thirty-one cakes, dampened with whiskey, bask on windowsills and shelves.

"Giveya two-bits" cash for that ol tree."

But when it comes time for making each other's gift, my friend and I separate to work secretly.

My friend has a better haul. A sack of Satsumas, that's her best present. She is proudest, however, of a white wool shawl knitted by her married sister.

"This is our last Christmas together"

Seasons Woolens