vintage

A Quaint Swiss Winter Hiking Boot for Vegans and Vegetarians

 

Here are the details:
Urbanoutfitters.com

$68.00

Blue (featured) and black

* Polyurethane, cotton, rubber (no leather)

This is awesome. This looks like a swiss hiking boot like the ones I used to see in the ridiculous but awesome catalog I used to receive called Gorsuch. It was a catalog that was aimed at  trophy wives who had moved to ski towns in Europe, who dressed (or so the catalog claimed) in  typically white high collared ruffled shirts, leather leggings, leather boots embroidered with flowers, while the little blond children typically wore lederhosen and embroidered leather parkas. Everyone was posed on the ski slopes of the alps or in the apres ski lodge. Everything was literally like 4000 dollars  but they sent the catalog out to anyone who would take it. You must check it out for yourself!
They sold boots exactly like these, but amazingly these use no leather.
 

An Awesome vintage inspired bag from Urban Oufitters

Urbanoutfitters
Polyurethane, mixed metal (no leather)

$58.00

Comes in Black, Red and Brown

This is an awesome bag because it seems to be an exact replica of a 1940s English school satchel. So cool. So full of history!
1940s English school supplies.
This bag was featured prominently in the film An Education, which I thought was pretty bad though I agreed with everyone that the outfits in it were great.
Carey Mulligan in An Education. Note the bag!
One of my favorite fashion bloggers, Lulu Letty, who loves old fashioned menswear inspired looks has been wearing this bag in almost all her recent outfits.
Well if that doesn’t inspire you…how about imagining Harry Potter himself carrying a bag like this. Hermione’s books would never fit in it. Well….
What think you of this vintage inspired look? I guess it can be from the 40s or the 1960s (the time when An Education was set) and beyond.