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Spring Arrives with The North Face, Carhartt and Rothco

May 16, 2012

We sense the tide is turning here. Spring has been a late bloomer on the East coast. And even though the trees are fully sprung in green-leaf carpets, that temperature has been less than springlike. More like stuck in near-spring, on the winter side. Even the weatherman has been fibbing, telling us it would be [...]

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Honor Mercuralia with Carhartt, Woolrich and Chippewa

May 14, 2012

Tomorrow we celebrate Mercuralia. Well, it’s a Roman celebration, so if you want to get all toga it’s a great holiday for just about everybody. Check it out. Mercuralia is also known as the “Festival of Mercury.” And Mercury, of course, was known as the god of merchants and commerce. So go ahead and do [...]

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Combining Dockers, The North Face and Carhartt

April 29, 2012

We talk a lot about good combinations. First things that come to mind are steak and potatoes, ice cream and chocolate sauce, Laurel and Hardy, movies and popcorn, kids and laughter, sand and toes. Or maybe: you picking a lottery ticket and you winning with that lottery ticket. When it comes to quality clothing, our [...]

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Orbiting with Red Wing, Schott and Dickies

April 28, 2012

From our “This Day in History” Department: today we celebrate the 11th anniversary of the first tourist in space. On April 28, 2001, a Russian spacecraft carrying Dennis Tito, an Italian-American multimillionaire from Queens, blasted off and docked with the International Space Station orbiting above Earth. (That last sentence just makes our head spin.) Tito [...]

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Look Saturday in Carhartt, Lee Jeans and Vasque

April 26, 2012

To the landmark notions of spring fashion, fall fashion, haute couture, the runway and the new black, we proudly add…The Saturday Look. Well, why not? Saturday clothes are—well, should be—styled expressly for Saturday. We come from a town that used to have a place called The Wednesday Store. If memory serves, it was open every [...]

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A Stylish Home Run: Wrangler, Woolrich and Vasque

April 17, 2012

Baseball: you bet. We’re almost in full swing as those boys of summer get into the groove of things. Sometimes new rules do help things along. Back in 1845, the Knickerbocker Rules ended an early practice in baseball of getting an out by throwing the ball at a runner and hitting him. In the clothing [...]

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NCAA: North Face, Carhartt And Alpha Industries

March 30, 2012

Yes, okay: the pinnacle of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament starts tomorrow. In the Final Four, we have two teams from Kentucky, one from Ohio, one from Kansas. Who knows who’s going to win it all? Well, we do, but we can’t tell you…at this juncture. Ask us on Tuesday, and we’ll tell you all [...]

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Slip into Spring in Carhartt, The North Face and Rothco

March 27, 2012

What is it with the weather? Here in Gotham, we were in shirtsleeves and had pretty much mothballed the wool coats. The trees were budding. Spring was in the air…and then suddenly the heat’s coming through the radiators, you can see your breath, and it’s cold again. We said, “Dude,” but the weather paid us [...]

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Join Royalty in Red Wing, Levi’s and Rothco

March 25, 2012

Tomorrow we celebrate Prince Kuhio Day, and it’s worth mentioning for a few good reasons. Our fine Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana’ole, the Kingdom of Hawaii’s heir to the throne, wrote Hawaii’s first Statehood bill in 1919. As we celebrate Prince Kuhio Day tomorrow, remember that it’s only one of two holidays celebrating royalty in the [...]

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Spring into Goodness in Carhartt, Vasque and Wrangler

March 21, 2012

Happy day after Vernal Equinox…otherwise known as the first day of Spring. To review: your new season (one of four; collect them all!) will be filled with blooming flowers, sprouting gardens and gratuitous lawncare. Also prepare yourself for waves of basketball, the start of baseball season, lots of hockey, noble soccer and just enough golf. [...]

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