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HUF End of Season Sale 2008-09-17

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HUF is hav­ing their 50%-off End-of-Season Sale today at all of their stores in both SF and LA. Get there fast as I won’t be sur­prised if they get cleared out quick.

Here are their locations:

516 Hayes Street
(between Laguna St & Octavia St)
San Fran­cisco, CA 94102
415–552-3820

808 Sut­ter Street
(between Jones St & Leav­en­worth St)
San Fran­cisco, CA 94109
415–614-9414

816 Sut­ter Street
San Fran­cisco, CA 94109
415–614-9414

410 N Fair­fax Ave
Los Ange­les, CA 90036
(323) 944‑0017

Nice Kicks on 2008-09-05

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These caught my eye ear­lier in the week, and fig­ured I should post them just in case any­one else is look­ing for some­thing like ‘em.1


Vans Leather Slip On
Vans are so amaz­ingly ver­sa­tile. Sure, they’ve been the stan­dard skate shoes for eons now, but they can also dress up with­out break­ing a sweat. The per­fect exam­ple of that is this model, in soft leather with tonal gor­ing on the sides, con­trast stitch­ing and logo tag, with a hearty neu­tral sole that exudes not only easy com­fort but casual style that can hit the opera and skate on home with­out los­ing fash­ion points or street cred. Imported. Spot clean.
* Runs nar­row, con­sider siz­ing up by a 1/2 size
* Leather, rub­ber, EVA


Puma El Rey Pearl — Black
Named after the famed art deco the­ater in Los Ange­les, the El Ray from Puma is sleek and slick, a slip-on with style to spare. Pearl­ized leather uppers with per­fo­rated toe-box; wide leather strap with elas­tic gor­ing; con­trast lin­ing; striped mid­sole; gum rub­ber sole. Imported. Spot clean.
* Fits true to size
* Leather, rubber


Puma El Rey Tex­tured — Olive
Named after the famed art deco the­ater in Los Ange­les, the El Ray from Puma is sleek and slick, a slip-on with style to spare. Tex­tured can­vas uppers; wide coated strap with elas­tic gor­ing; con­trast lin­ing; striped mid­sole; gum rub­ber sole. Imported. Spot clean.
* Fits true to size
* Can­vas, nylon, rubber


Pen­guin Brown Perf Slip On — Brown
Clean slip-on sneak­ers from Pen­guin, with brown can­vas and per­fo­rated leather uppers. Elas­tic gor­ing at the sides, with leather sta­bil­ity strap; striped mid­sole with logo detail­ing; tex­tured rub­ber sole; logo patch at the heel. Imported. Spot clean.
* Fits true to size
* Leather, can­vas, rubber


Pen­guin Ernie Chukka — Tan
Pre­mium Chukka boot from Pen­guin, with rich pieced suede uppers and stitched moc-toe detail­ing. Striped mid­sole with logo detail­ing; tonal laces; tex­tured rub­ber sole; embossed logos at the tongue and side. Imported. Spot clean.
* Fits true to size
* Suede, rubber


Nike Court Force High AM95 — Grey
Hot Court Force high top from Nike, inspired by the clas­sic Air Max 95. Nylon and leather uppers with grey fade; con­trast neon laces and swoosh; black mid­sole; tex­tured rub­ber sole. Imported. Spot clean.
* Fits true to size
* Leather, nylon, rub­ber, EVA

  1. This set is from Urban Out­fit­ters. Descrip­tion per shoe are pretty much from them. I got tired as it was hot today in the City. [↩]

Threadless Now Doing Print

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You can now get your favorite shirt designs on print from Thread­less. They are start­ing w/ a lim­ited run of 250 per design; cost­ing at about $35 at the moment (size 18“x24”). I just emailed them won­der­ing if they’ll be hook­ing that up w/ a fram­ing ser­vice as well—I think they are per­son­ally if the cost ain’t too much. It just makes sense.

Update
It seems Thread­less has moved their “Print” sec­tion over to the reigns of Society6, and blik.

H&M San Francisco, Just Your Average Opening?

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/stechico/64822899/
H&M SF Grand Open­ing by stechico.

Talk about your reg­u­lar Sat­ur­day morn­ing… I went to the city to hang out with some peeps and roll to the H&M Grand Open­ing (150 Pow­ell St.). I got to Pow­ell St. ter­mi­nal via BART around 9:45am. As you walk up the hill, you can already see the chaos. Hun­dreds were already lined up antic­i­pat­ing the store’s rib­bons to be cut.

The cops, heli­copters and secu­rity guards were out in force to keep an eye on things, and keep order. It was no sur­prise that this thing was a great Grand Open­ing. H&M did a won­der­ful job spread­ing the word about their first instal­la­tions on the west coast.

They kept the crowd (lined up around the block, lit­er­ally) in order by hav­ing secu­rity guards act as “line mon­i­tors” perse. This gave cut­ters the wrong idea, and kept things fair for every­one who have been wait­ing there for a long time. I over­heard peo­ple say­ing that the aver­age wait was 1–2 hours dur­ing the morn­ing. That’s just too crazy.

So, I skipped that morn­ing fiasco and headed over to grab some brunch at King of Thai (aka. King Thai, or Pur­ple Thai between my cowork­ers and I). After get­ting some chicken satay, hop­ing over to the dif­fer­ent stores in the area and some refresh­ments, we headed over to the H&M line.

The time is now 2:30pm. It wasn’t as bad as the secu­rity guard said it was about a 10 minute wait now. But low and behold, we got in the store in less than 5 min­utes. The inside, well… that’s another story.

It was just com­plete pan­de­mo­nium. Imag­ine shop­ping dur­ing Christ­mas Eve, only in Novem­ber. It was freak­ing hot, humid and stuffy. It felt like Sum­mer time all over again.

Mean­while, after an hour of brows­ing the men’s sec­tion, I came up empty handed. Noth­ing really caught my eye, except for some nice suits that were just not jus­ti­fi­able for me to get at the moment. I haven’t even worn one since Liz & Joel’s Wed­ding two weeks ago, and dur­ing my inter­views back in February-March.

Any­ways, I fig­ured that every­one who shopped today at H&M would prob­a­bly be wear­ing the same clothes this week. That’s just gonna be hilar­i­ous. So for those who work and live in/near the city, be on a look out for peo­ple wear­ing the same H&M cloth­ing next to each other. Take a photo if you can. HA!

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