#proper mag

[urbanindustry]

Dickies x Urban Industry x Proper Mag 

[urbanindustry]

Dickies x Urban Industry x Proper Mag

[williecorrente]

Publication on PROPER MAG

A.P.C.Editorial

[thinkingchap]

Proper X Mundial Mugs

Here’s some press shots of the outstanding footy mug collaboration between the North of England’s finest menswear collective ‘Proper’ and cultural soccerball rag ‘Mundial’. A bit good aren’t they!? You can’t buy one though, as they’re sold out. Pretty pointless post this then. I can hear Jim Bowen’s runner-up chorus echoing in my ear as I’m scrawling; ‘Here’s what you could have won’. Still,…

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[thinkingchap]

Stocking Fillers from Mamnick

Stocking Fillers from Mamnick

Anybody remember that post I published on the ‘Hope Cap’ from those peak district menswear practitioners, Mamnick. Well, if you missed it just follow that blue link above, which is an attempt to plug the original post as they still have some left in stock ready for this seasons winter-y blast. If you happen to be a little unfamiliar with Mamnick’s exploits, they’re Sheffield based clothing…

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Proper mag: a properly good publication

Remember getting lippy as an eight-year-old youth? You'd spend all day down the conservative club, guzzling Panda Pops and necking those rare blue Smarties with the rest of your clued-up primary school posse. Inevitably, your mum would rock up in the Astra and instantly kill your buzz – home time. Sure enough, right after you went postal on the bouncy castle, and just before you were brought back down to earth with a clip round the ear, your ma would tell you to mind your tone (probably not in those exact words).

Why did she tell you to watch your tone? We bet you your tone was ace. She just didn't get your gags – the square. At journo' training camp you're told that your tone of voice is the most important thing to get right. It's what makes your writing stand out from all those regurgitated press releases and client-controlled advertorials.

You know who we think has got their tone of voice nailed? Neil Summers and Mark Smith from Proper mag, that's who. They're not eight year old lads off their heads on fizzy pop though – that'd be weird. They're two "clothing and cultural obsessives" from the North of England who are behind all things Proper – mostly an online and printed menswear publication that earns mad props within the expanding circle of coat-clad cultural connoisseurs around the globe.

Don't get it twisted, Proper mag isn't some self-aggrandising style bible. On the contrary, it's just an honest output for a bunch likeminded creative folk who are passionate about the people, subcultures and brands that make up the framework of modern menswear. But being that the majority of contributors seem to be from the North, tongues are kept firmly in cheeks whenever possible (oo-er).

Even if you don't know your selvedge from your Stutterheim, a scroll down the website or a flick through the mag should make you appreciate that Mark, Neil and the numerous other heads behind the Proper project have built up a loyal fanbase and made their mark on an elitist culture whilst sticking firm to their editorial steeze through a clear tone of voice. All qualities that many publications promise but often fall short of delivering.

Heck, the fact that Proper's managed to stay in print for sixteen issues is worth some credit – don't be tight.

We added the fresh issue 16 to our collection after a fleeting visit to Manchester, and it doesn't fail to deliver on that whole tone of voice thing we were getting all nostalgic about up at the top of this post. It promises to "give a self-conscious dead arm" to the Lawbreakers & Tastemakers of menswear. You'll read a bit on those tasty new adidas Spezials everyone's going postal for, a cultural observation on the new breed of Scouse scal' (written by yet another North Westerner featured on this very site) and some really nice coats…natch.

Cop a copy of the latest printed issue from the Proper website or from that great other menswear institution Oi Polloi and make up your own mind. Don't take our arse-kissing 470 words for it, our editor's from the North West too so he made us write this – the lippy get.

[soundsystemcultureblog]

SOUND SYSTEM CULTURE BOOK REVIEW @ PROPERMAG.COM

Sound System Culture If the roles were reversed and a load of Yorkshire folk found themselves emigrating to the Caribbean, it’s hard to imagine they’d have had as deep and long lasting musical impact as the sound systems have on these fair isles. Though the beautiful bass driven melodies of reggae are now so embedded in British culture that it gets a (double) name check on one of our most popular condiments it wasn’t always that way. The Windrush generation and those that followed not only helped British industry get back on its feet after the war but also taught us how to get together and celebrate in proper style via the culture of the sound system The best record player you could get your hands on, the biggest bass shaking speakers, a clued up selector, a bottle or two of rum, a big bag of sensei and some like minded souls were all the ingredients needed to bring a bit of yard to Yorkshire. By the late 1970s and throughout the 80s the combined skills of various talented carpenters, electricians and musicians in Huddersfield had turned what started out purely as remedy for homesickness and to forget about xenophobic vibes into a must stop destination for world famous artists and reggae fans alike. Just like Al Fingers previous One Love Books (Clarks in Jamaica) Sound System Culture: Celebrating Huddersfield’s Sound Systems provides a well researched and enthralling history of a unique Anglo-Caribbean Culture alongside some brilliant photos and quotes from the key players. If you love reggae as much as me then I can’t recommend this book highly enough and if you don’t like reggae then you need to go to Huddersfield and sort you head out bredren.

http://www.propermag.com/site/sound-system-culture-one-love-books-2014-07

[soulstylism]

This is my new favourite thing. I've laughed out loud about 10 times and it's full of beautiful trainers (and some creepy acid green Nike hiking boots but the less said about them the better).