Get a new Clutch
Preppy NY fashion label Kate Spade’s new collection of eye-candy handbags incorporates lots of garden party imagery under the concept of “Escape the Ordinary.” Key items include the wicker snail clutch (B16,500), wicker frog satchel (price TBA), flowerpot cross-body bag (B14,500) and sprout-green watering can satchel (B18,500), while there are a range of other products like boxy tops, bows, and sunglasses.
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Wear Wireless
Harman Kardon’s Soho Wireless (B9,990) are some of the most handsome Bluetooth headphones out there. While they look similar to the brand’s wired 2014 offerings, built from gentlemanly stainless steel and leather, the Soho Wireless also boast a number of design improvements. The right ear cup is equipped with a touch-sensitive control panel, which lets you manage your music without touching your device. As you’d expect from the brand, the audio performance is solid, too, with decent sound isolation despite the small size. The new model is also foldable and very light, and comes with an ultra-slim carrying case.
Order New Pomade from Home
If you’re still hard at work perfecting your 1950s-style pompadour hairdo, new online store Mr Mostwell delivers a selection
of premium pomade products right to your door. For now most of the products come from the US and Australia: Uppercut Deluxe, King Brown Pomade, Modern Pirate, Baxter of California, Brooklyn Grooming and Admiral (prices from B780-950). If you want to try before buy, some of the above brands are available at Ttopcollar (J-Avenue), Onion and Black Amber Barber Shop & Tattoo.
www.mrmostwell.com
New Watch?
Leather and canvas NATO straps are all the rage in the watch world—as are vintage designs. Timex has taken notice and just issued a very smart Weekender 40 package that comes with a watch and three NATO straps to keep your watch looking its best in the office (in leather), on casual nights out (navy with an oxblood striped canvas) and on the weekends (green canvas). The watch itself is a real beauty, with a very 50s round body and clean, white dial with two sets of military-style numbers from 1-12 and 13-24. It’s the kind of watch that makes you wonder why anyone would spend B150,000 on big brands.
B4,900 (quartz movement) at a department store near you.
Wear Indigo
In keeping with the current trend of local designers adapting traditional craft skills, Vickteerut’s sister line, Vick’s, has rolled out a line of special indigo-dye shirts as part of its latest spring/summer collection. Head designer Teerut “Vick” Wongwatanasin and cohort Pang Sudhinaraset traveled to Chiang Mai and Sakolnakorn to learn the local indigo-dying methods before integrating them into the brand’s trademark linen shirt designs. Prices start at B4,400 per piece.