Recent content by Ny Björn

Thank you! I bought it as a reward of-sorts after successfully defending my PhD two years ago. While I'm at it: Here's a more wintry version of myself. We had some snow last night and the temperature dropped. - Same cap, scarf and waistcoat but with the aforementioned Nigel Cabourn tweed...

Bleak winter morning in Visby, Gotland, Sweden... What I normally wear in dry weather out here during our quite UK-like winters: - brown Red Wing Iron rangers (with woollen socks) - tan corduroy largeot à tirants by Le Laboureur (lined, light brown Nigel Cabourn tweed trousers in temperatures...

Strictly speaking the outfit worn below might not qualify as workware according to the normal standards - but if you were a late 1920's professor of archaeology and descended into the excavational trenches I'd bet you'd rather wear this than the notorious fedora, whip et al... The photo show...

The Värnamo-branded pair look just as the pair my grandfather wore in the mines back in the 1960's, though they were fitted with steel toe-caps (I used them as spare boots when I worked as a farm hand and it was quite literally like wearing armour...). Värnamo gummifabrik (- Rubber plant) made...

I've got several garments from Le Laboureur (of their workwear-line - e.g. the Adolphe Lafont high-rise 1/2 balloon moleskin trousers and matching waistcoat). Pretty good clothing, I'm an archaeologist and wear them out in the trenches in springs and autumns - but yes, they'r on the pricier...

-Thank you indeed! I traveled the Western Isles some 10 years ago, but alas, due to lack of space I was unable to bring any tweed with me back. /Ny Björn