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Goodmans x Rig Out: Only One Choice In The City

You know Goodmans. They do those lovely portable radios from the '60s with the leather strap handle. That's how everyone knows them, but they've been around since 1923 and are still knocking out...

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K-Way Claude: Keep Dry And Look Fly

Don't be that person packing for a festival who thinks "It'll be muddy, I won't need any nice clothes" because you will. I'll tell you that now.  If you ask me, as far as jackets that'll keep you dry...

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Oi Polloi Have Opened In London

Everybody's talking about the brass houses and sex shops closing in Soho as though it's the death of the area. I disagree, and I'll tell you why.  If you know your onions you'll have noticed that as...

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The Greatest Pub Fight I Ever Saw: "The Human Torpedo"

The Cat & Mutton, Hackney, 2013. A loud argument had taken place between a table of mates and one noticeably pissed young chap. "Did you spill my jam jar of responsibly sourced organic wine?"...

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This Spray Will Make Your Trainers Stay Clean Forever

Pop quiz. Do you want to give out that 'standing in a queue for a kebab with the grimy remains of some Camden shithole pub's floor over your shoes' vibe? Do you think that's a good way to present...

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5 Lairy Macs You'll Want This Summer

Don't kid yourself into thinking you won't need a new coat for the next few months. This is Britain. A game of cricket lasts longer than our summer.  The mac was born when Victorian rubber don Thomas...

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You Need The New Grace Jones Box Set

The Queen of Disco showed Parklife how it's done this week, performing topless in tribal body paint to the festival crowds. It's no surprise she's still grabbing headlines: the 67 year old refuses to...

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Umbro x The Rig Out: L.A.ds

If you'd come up to me 20 years ago after a kickabout in the flats and said "Tom, in the future LA street kids are going to be copying your outfit in fashion shoots" I'd have probably told you to fuck...

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The Oi Polloi x Reebok Trainer Is Coming

Oi Polloi have teamed up with British sportswear stalwart Reebok for a collaboration trainer to be released next week.  The Reebok x Oi Polloi NPC II takes everything that was beautiful about the 1985...

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They're Making A Goosebumps Film

The Goosebumps series of books are an integral part of the '90s kid DNA. If you didn't have one of the brightly coloured, textured covers on your desk for 'reading time' at school you weren't shit....

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Rains Macs Are The Answer To Your Summer Downpour Problem

It might be summer now chaps, but believe me when you step out your front door in an August downpour a young Henry Hill ain't gonna be there holding an umbrella for you like Paulie in Goodfellas. This...

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Weekend Offender x The Rig Out: Dressers

We're now in a 'Post-Casual' era. Blokes whose existence used to revolve around kicking fuck out of each other now prefer a good walk. Can you blame them? There's only so many nights counting tiles in...

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London95: A Celebration Of The Nike Air Max

Twenty years ago (fuck! Yeah, seriously) the Sergio Lozano-designed Nike Air Max 95 introduced a futurist approach to running design. Inspired by human anatomy, the shoe made a bold statement with its...

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Syndicut Shorts Are Worth Booking A Holiday For

It's always a tough one buying swimming shorts. Ideally you want something that says "I take my vacations in the Tropics and drink from a pineapple" when really you're smashing back ouzo with the bar...

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Folk Have Made A Selection Of One-Off Lights

Folk founder and all round top design bod Cathal McAteer has been trying his hand at stuff to make your home nice, creating a selection of crafted lamps which are available to buy from the Folk shop....

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The WWF's Most Ridiculous Villains

If you’ve ever stayed up into the early hours of the morning to watch greased up men roll around the floor in their underwear, keeping deathly silent so as not to wake up anyone else in the house,...

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Sperry x YMC Chukka Boot

There's comfort to be found in a good boot. Strength and utility. Nobody went off to war in sandals. Maybe the Romans, but look what happened to them. Overran by European tribes almost certainly...

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Watch These Early 90s London Clubbers Talk About Their Outfits

Not much changes, does it? This footage taken outside the Astoria (remember that?) in the early 90s gives an insight, for those too young to remember, into what people wore to go out. Kickers, Tims,...

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7 Britons We Should Send To Mars To Start A Colony

In case you missed the news this week, water has been found on Mars. It won't be long until there's a Foxtons and a Pret up there, so here are a few suggestions for who we should be sending to suss the...

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A Number Of Names* Set Up Shop In Soho

Menswear agency A Number of Names* have been front runners in the style game for years, so it's hardly surprising that their in-house tees made specially for press days soon became as sought-after as...

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You Need A Pair Of Buckled Loafers

If you want to look like you make your living serving up to footballers in Epping Forest Country Club circa 1995 (and believe me, you do want to look like that) then you need to get yourself a pair of...

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The Dark Carnival: Portraits From Clubland's Underbelly

Clubland is in the news again. Everywhere you turn councils are revoking late licenses. You can't walk down the street playing a grime track without the police trying to shut you down for holding a...

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Klattermusen Outerwear

With a name like a long forgotten Leeds centre-half from the O Leary era, Klattermusen is a new addition to the Oi Polloi stable, making outdoor clothing and backpacks in a way only a company from the...

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Watch Will Smith & Jazzy Jeff Tearing It Up In London, 1986

He may be a Hollywood A-lister with eccentric kids, but don't forget boys and girls, Will Smith was once an essential part of hip hop's crossover into the mainstream. This video shows him and partner...

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Watch The New Nike x The Rig Out: Footballx Video

The playground in the flats was our Wembley. Despite being on a slope and surrounded by uneven fences, it would often play host to 15-a-side matches which looked more like an uprising in the Middle...

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These Access All Areas Photos Show Disco In Its Heyday

For me, the 10 years between '75 and '85 is when the relationship between music and clubbing was at its peak. The whole entertainment industry was in its pomp, with the budgets to allow huge orchestral...

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Five Camo Pieces You Need For The Winter

Hartford Camo Shirt This shirt from French label Hartford is good for disguising yourself in the ocean against predators, such as the deadly shark. Also if you come in Sunday afternoon from a two dayer...

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Save Aberdeen Angus Steakhouses: A London Design Classic

They are the gastronomic equivalent of Soho's clip joints, herding in wide-eyed tourists with flashes of neon and promises of tender flesh, everything under-dressed and overpriced. They're as much a...

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Reigning Champ Heavyweight Crew Neck

I'll tell you something, friend, never underestimate the importance of a grey crew neck jumper. It might not set your pants on fire at first glance, but over time it'll become one of the most essential...

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Percival Rust Outershirt

Much like a trifle, the key to staying sharp as a puffin's beak this winter is layering, and London brand Percival know the game better than Mary Berry. Have a look at this lovely outershirt they're...

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9 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Vinyl

Only Buy What You Like This may seem like an obvious one, but it’s easy to jump in with dreams of discovering the reggae LP Peter Tosh used to skin up on in your local Oxfam and whacking it on Discogs...

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Stussy x Clarks Originals

You know when a pair of shoes stops you dead in your tracks and every thought other than "how can I get these on my feet in the quickest possible time" disappears into oblivion? That. I don't need to...

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Space Is The Place: An Introduction To Sun Ra And The Arkestra

"I'm doing a different kind of mathematics" Sun Ra The most influential yet under appreciated musician of the jazz era, if not all time, Sun Ra and his Arkestra's discography is one of the most...

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Adidas 'Made In France' Stan Smiths - The Greatest Trainers I Nearly Had

My Stan Smiths story takes me back to a lads holiday mid 2000s. Kavos. Theatre of dreams. Laying by a noisy pool in the midday sun was doing nothing to shift a particularly weighty hangover, so I opted...

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Art Pepper - Straight Life

Many people say Art Pepper was the greatest alto-saxophonist of the post-Charlie Parker era. He was also a drug addict who spent most of his life in and out of jail, deemed too crazy to be trusted with...

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William Fox Baseball Cardigan

100% Ivy League steez coming straight out of Scotland in the shape of this William Fox cardi. If you like to dress like you knock about with the Kennedy's and your parents own a small vinyard in...

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Kojey Radical - 23Winters

If you ask me Kojey Radical is the most exciting artist Britain has at the moment. Bar none. In fact nobody even comes close. While Stateside rappers take up much of the media's attention, the Londoner...

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Stone Island Dyed Reflective Jacket

Who saw this coming then? Stone Island is now the darling of the fashion pack. Rappers from across the Atlantic dressing like geezers from Tottenham. Art students turning up to clubs like yoof scallies...

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Woolrich Weston Mac

Woolrich are best known for making parkas which can withstand temperatures colder than the back of your freezer where the forgotten fish fingers are. This season however, they've introduced a new...

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12 Things Every First Internet Generationer Will Remember

1. Letting the world know what you're about by the case on your Nokia face off 2. EVERY garage track on Napster being attributed to DJ Luck and MC Neat 3.  Downloading fake hip hop collaboration tracks...

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The 5 Best Prince Songs You Won't Hear On The Radio

View image | gettyimages.com Head (Dirty Mind – 1980) Dirty Mind, Prince’s third album, signified the dawn of an artist who would go on to change the face of popular music forever. Although considered...

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Charlie Chan's: A Tribute To The Greatest Club I Ever Went To

[img via] You always remember the first club you ever went to. Stood in the queue doing your best to be chill, look like you've been there before, maybe share a little joke with your mates, don't make...

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An Ode To Waynes World's Del Preston

"So, Jeff Beck pops his head round the door and mentions there's a little sweet shop on the edge of town..." The immortal words of the greatest roadie who ever lived. He went to Woodstock and partied...

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Streets Of Rage 2 Is Still The Greatest Video Game Ever Made

The first level dropped you bang in the middle of the neon-lit, rain sodden streets. Evil megalomaniac Mr X had taken control of the city, backed up by a gang of thugs in double-denim with names nobody...

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Alessandro Moreschi: The Last Castrato

Luckily, or indeed unfortunately if you're reading this in the context of having watched X Factor recently, having one's balls cut off isn't a prerequisite for a successful singing career these days....

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The 5 Best Flags In The World

My name is Tom and I am a vexillophile. The way every country can be neatly identified with its own visual representation is a massive buzz for me - I often leave people astounded / completely...

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Lost London Clubs: The Loft

From its beginnings in the early '90s, Camden Lock's HQ and The Loft parties became the place to be for any discerning music head on a Wednesday night. “It was real, it was about the music,” Trouble...

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The Streets: Original Pirate Material - The Album That Changed My Life

The bulk of my school years were spent on an estate in North East London, kicking footballs around, loitering in stairwells, wasting time, surrounded by rows of post-war council flats painted a mixture...

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5 Trainers Every 00s Teenager Wore

Nike TNs Despite looking like creatures that would crawl the desert after a nuclear blast, the Nike TNs were immensely sought after. So much so that they successfully brought back the age old British...

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The MA-1 Bomber: 6 Variations Of Your Next Spring Jacket

Believe it or not, your summer wardrobe owes more to advances in military air technology than your drone-blighted conscience would like to think. For if it wasn't for the US Air Force updating their...

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