Another Disco Revival

Logically it would follow that we'll see '70s vibes in a season or two, but Needles Fukuoka says "Eff it bro, it's on!" and cuts to the chase. Big pants, bigger collars. Polyester - cool again? Serpico is about as far into the '70s as I'll be going. And that's 1973 for the dorks. It is funny how during this whole "cosmic-disco" revival the clothes were anything but, and now that people are tired of it, here come the outfits. Where was the Dennis Parker look the whole time, guys? I mean come on. Talk about time slipping into the future.

• BBP has this wild number; an outdoor tech jacket in oxford cloth cotton. While it doesn't have a button down front (snap buttons instead), I think you could still rock it tucked in to a job interview. Maybe. Ivy League meets the JMZ after-school-let-out.

• Straw, cotton and linen by New York Hat Co. for the summer.

• N.D.C. has their Alithia boot in a couple colored leather numbers. I got a pair last spring, and they are pretty caj. As in casual.

• A comprehensive and, get this, up-to-date collection of ACE Mystery Series covers. Highlights include Frank Frazetta's cover for Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Oakdale Affair and Womanhunt by Mark Derby. Notice how rape-y the books are though, jeez.
  

• Houndstooth, the men's only vintage boutique in the hipster heart of darkness (it's on Driggs, yikes), has started putting out some spring items. Grab the virgin vintage army parachute pants before they're gone. Hottest shop in town for the recession, sorry OC, but we're not gonna take it!

• Vinage plastic frames from the '50s at monologNY.

• Some lucky winners on the eBay; vintage hikers and an Andy Warhol shirt for Halston.

• Supreme Spring '09 highlights include a garage-rock workwear jacket, a trio of jackets in a Thom Browne-ish palette, colored jeans, the return of the original logo, more button downs than usual and some old fag in a box tee.