Archival Field Trip - PDX

  

Over the weekend, I made a quick trip up to Portland to shop for eyewear, catch a film and check in on a few of my favorite shops.  Here are some visual notes from the trip:

 

New S/S Engineered Garments at Blake

 

  

Brand obsession - Masunaga eyewear from Japan (via Blink)

Original Archival Flap Musette on tour 

 

Bike rack Ira Ryan custom porteur

 

Julian boots for Reveille

Aspirational Yuketens

Sugar Cane Brown Beach Jacket

 

Reveille

  

  

Shopping for yet another Hario brewing device

 

 

Now Playing - Blue Velvet at Cinema 21

Shopping from the movies: On Any Sunday (1971)

On Any Sunday (Brown 1971), the famous 1971 motorcycle documentary, has been shopped to death. Over the years, gent bloggers have obsessed over the film's motorcycles, wax jackets, leather boots and Steve McQueen footage. Coming late to this movie, I gravitated to the section dealing with the six day international motorcycle trial in Spain. As a randonneur, I appreciate any sporting event that emphasizes endurance, durable clothing, modest rewards and an ethos of self reliance (riders must maintain their own machines during the race).

Here are a few of my favorite small details from On Any Sunday:

Red kerchief; rear snap closure pockets on jacket

Self-reliant motorcycle maintenance

Anorak and jockey goggles over eyeglasses

Cotton web strap holding the metal skid plate in place (nylon now for sure)

Stylish spectator in Spain

Pristine pit crew

Modest winner's medallion

Mixed use trail

Archival Daredevils

Shopping From Frank Leder

by Tom Bonamici

Of course we're all about shopping from the past, but the magic happens when an opportunity comes around to shop successfully from the present. Somewhere in between Danny, Champion of the World, Lady Chatterley's Lover and The Rules of the Game, I became entranced with the conflict of the gamekeeper and the poacher.


Ever since it came online, I've been totally stuck on Frank Leder's POACHERS series. He's really killing it with some of the details in this collection. Check out POACHERS at his splash page, but make sure to get into the archives, too. Hinterland: Fleisch and Hinterland: Vagabund are some of my favorites, but honestly, it's all good.



There's so much hunting clothing in the city that it's refreshing to take inspiration from the poachers, who wear their city clothing in the country. When the apocalypse comes, we'll no doubt have forgotten our Tin Cloth and Bean Boots at home. So join the Archival Clothing team on the south side of Eugene's Spencer's Butte: we'll be the people bagging deer while clad in tattered tweeds and leaky brogues.

Archival Cadets Revisited

Military service runs in my family. My father was a colonel in the Army and my sister attended the Air Force Academy. I toyed with the idea of attending a service academy but doubted my ability to survive past the day they outfit you with your uniform. I might have reconsidered military school if I could have enrolled in the Life Photo Archive version of Sandhurst military academy. I love the bookish style and striped blazers of the Sandhurst cadets. And who wouldn’t want to spend their school days playing chess, pedaling bicycles in formation or jumping motorcycles by horseback?

From the Life Photo Archive