This is pretty interesting. Reigning Champ has been working with a Japanese Dye house in an effort to perfect the black dye process on western materials. The result is a black with crazy depth and no blue. Apparently, this process took over a century to perfect and the dye includes all kinds of shit in it… Things like tea leaves and bark.

Crazy, no?

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The Brown Buffalo makes some of the best bags in the world. Their attention to detail is overdone and insane. And now, they are making a house a slipper?

I haven’t laid eyes on these yet, but I pretty much guarantee these are built like a brick shithouse… and do the job of a slip-on.

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I hate being in the cold… and I hate being cold. Just generally speaking, I believe cold to be the breathe of the devil and I’m not at all interested in being near it.

At times, however, it’s unavoidable and I have to be prepared. I typically do so with layers and one those is usually a flannel shirt of some kind. The thing is though, I don’t typically get along with the style of traditional flannel shirts. They make me feel old and oddly floppy.

So while the Birdwell Work Shirt isn’t the best made flannel on the market… or made of the most traditional (and itchy) materials, it is one of my favorites. It looks right, feels soft, and keeps me warm.

Highly recommended.

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