Hunting Season Begins
The last half of July I willed myself not to buy anything for fall, no matter how desperately I wanted to. Whenever I was tempted to add anything to an online shopping cart I’d switch over from Safari to Photoshop and stare longingly at the layered document I’d compiled of all the pumpkin and pine-colored goods I was eyeing to buy myself for autumn. It seemed the smart way to approach the season, from both a financial and curatorial standpoint.
Monday, August 2nd had been sagely set as the official start of my fall fashion hunting season, and just now my prizes are starting to arrive!
The first: My very first foray into blog-branded goods via the ACL & Co. “collection”.
Short story long – For half of eternity I was that one guy everyone knows who’s so cool and non-cliché they don’t own a cell phone. But finally this June, last year’s white iPhone was saddled upon my once untethered existence until this year’s white iPhone finally figures itself out. So that really cool and non-cliché guy you all know, it’s someone else now. It’s not me.
For eighteen years, when leaving the house, all I’d need is my keys in my front left pocket, and my wallet in my front right. (I’ve tried parking my wallet in back, but it bugs me and my butt-pockets to no end.)
But now that I’m required to carry three belongings along with me instead of two, me and my front pockets keep forgetting either my wallet or my phone at home.
So I reasoned it was time to try a mini man-bag/mega zip-up wallet. I can cram everything inside it, saving myself from the now untrue assumption that everything I need is perched in my two front pockets.
I considered a few options but this orange interior-ed camo bag from ACL was cheap ($24.50 plus shipping) and as macho as a man-clutch could ever hope to be, so I went with it.
Time will tell if I can adapt from a hands-free lifestyle to that of a camo-ed clutcher. I’m honestly a little dubious.
But if not, camo appears again further down on my fall fashion hunting list. It was never a print or trend that really riled me up quite right, but this season it seems snappy and smart somehow.
August 11th, 2010 at 6:58 am
I was always wondering where Mr Williams ordered these to be made and how the whole process works. Like what’s the minimum run and how do you supply your own fabric. Sometime ago, when he was just starting his blog – it was his “secret project” and he mentioned that he toured a factory where these were made.
Im more interested in those zippers and who makes them. I don’t think those are YKK. My Apolis Activism jacket seems to have those. I know he ordered those separate – but now I cant seem to find that tweet/post. Finding good hardware seems as hard as finding good/affordable production place.
August 11th, 2010 at 8:14 am
Yeah, the zipper is unique and matte finished. Doesn’t seem old though, seems like a newer design somehow. I was gonna tack on a plain key ring to the zipper pull and loop my thumb through it to make it easier to carry around, but then the metals wouldn’t match. Only other thing about the ACL & Co. experience is my package seemed to ship personally right from M. Williams’s place – not some service or outpost elsewhere. Kinda surprising and nice.
August 11th, 2010 at 10:08 am
He does seem to keep his stock in his showroom. Judging from his flikr.