filson jackets and domestic wool
Posted in beautiful things by will - Mar 30, 2010Filson’s wool jackets are great. Beautiful clean minimal structures, great outer shell layers for sweaters and longjohns in the winter, and great for rainy and windy days the rest of the year. The only coat a person needs. Filson will send you a foot of any of their materials for home repair; this kind of support for the life of the object is a all too rare sensibility.
I feel the coolness of Filson may be belabored by many blogs recently, but it’s interesting to think about why they are so popular. They are simple. They are functional. They are old patterns, don’t have a dated feel, and they have a cultural statement. They remind us of outdoor labor and pioneering times, and also of later subcultures that were trying to reference those feelings, maybe the back to the land movement of the sixties and seventies. The great fashion for beards and knit caps may be another manifestation of this nostalgia, or of these values, depending on the individual. I live in Brooklyn and I see there are definitely both camps under the same image. Why do woolens have these connotations for us though? There definitely can be some hard values behind this psychological/romantic image.
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