Festive

If your Christmas is looking anything like this then you're doing it right. Via Kinfolk/Old Chum.

Please enjoy this most bucolic of times and I will see you in the New Year for a full festive round up.

WM Brown Neckties

I'm a big fan/avid follower of meta-masculine blog The William Brown Project. It covers sartorial flea market finds, hunter-gathering, and the whole spectrum of red-blooded, mid 20th C Americana. Excitingly, these lovely neckties have just appeared over there. Just need to work out how to get hold of one now...

Fisherman's Friends

Everybody's friend at this time of year.

Pick Your Own

Recently I've had this recurring daydream that I'm loping through a snowy forest with an unspecified family member to steal our Christmas tree. We find the perfect, plump spruce and set to work felling it and lashing it to the back of the pickup, then head back to the family pile to drink lashings of warm spiced alcohol and decorate.

This is what I'm rocking in my daydream:

Clockwise from top left:

Dickies lined leather gloves

LL Bean Scotch Plaid flannel shirt (festive colourway optional)

Nigel Cabourn trousers (braces essential)

Spear and Jackson 24" bow saw

Nylon rope (borrow from farmer)

Red Wing 6" boots

(Centre) Carhartt down filled Raleigh vest