Freewheelers at Son of Stag

[breezer]

I was pleased to see Son Of Stag are now stocking Freewheelers & Co of Japan - but seriously, who in their right mind is going to pay £149.90 for a navy watch cap - or wooly hat, as I would describe it. Any decent surplus store in the USA will sell you a wool watch cap for well under $10.....last time I was in Tucson I picked up both green and black ones, at Millers Surplus , for $5.99 each.

For the record I am a self confessed cheap Scotsman.

https://www.sonofastag.com/collecti...wheelers-u-s-navy-plain-watch-cap-beanie-navy

 

[Bushwalker]

And I picked up a 100% wool green watch cap for US$2 in a surplus store at Hong Kong.




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[Monitor]

I was pleased to see Son Of Stag are now stocking Freewheelers & Co of Japan - but seriously, who in their right mind is going to pay £149.90 for a navy watch cap - or wooly hat, as I would describe it. Any decent surplus store in the USA will sell you a wool watch cap for well under $10.....last time I was in Tucson I picked up both green and black ones, at Millers Surplus , for $5.99 each.

For the record I am a self confessed cheap Scotsman.

https://www.sonofastag.com/collecti...wheelers-u-s-navy-plain-watch-cap-beanie-navy

I bought exactly four used leather jackets and two new pairs of Levi's jeans in the last three months for that amount of money. And they're nice jackets.

 

[breezer]

ok - lets take this thread into your best bargains......I got my Red Wing Iron Rangers from my local charity shop for £15.

 

[Monitor]

Can't remember all but some more recent ones were Lewis Leathers for $30, Levi's Type-3 for $15, Schott 613 also for $15 or so...

 

[s4rmark]

One word , Hipsters.

 

[ton312]

This vintage sterling sportswear mackinaw: $20 USD. Shipped

 

[breezer]

One word , Hipsters.

sorry I don't go in for hipster bashing......for starters I don't think anyone can agree what a hipster is....and I, with my taste for vintage clothing, analogue technology - such as film cameras, would probably be labelled with the H word by many. And I don't have a problem with that. I just don't think anyone is going to pay £150 for a wooly hat.....and if they do, they have more money than sense.

 

[Americanaaa Mark]

they have stocked freewheelers for a while now.

I would not buy through them. they charge more than you would pay if you just ordered directly through freewheelers from japan

 

[breezer]

they have stocked freewheelers for a while now.

I would not buy through them. they charge more than you would pay if you just ordered directly through freewheelers from japan

didn't know you could order direct, good to know thanks. Though I have to say I'm getting a bit frustrated with ordering stuff online and when it arrives it doesn't fit satisfactorily. I just bought a shirt from Ebay for £10 and its too big....feels like a tenner wasted. Apart from the cost of Freewheelers, ordering from as far away as Japan would make me anxious.....do Japanese vendors do returns? I'm starting to realise clothes shopping is best done locally....which brings me back to Son of Stag.

 

[breezer]

Can't remember all but some more recent ones were Lewis Leathers for $30, Levi's Type-3 for $15, Schott 613 also for $15 or so...

good man!

 

[El Marro]

Filson makes a wool beanie that they sell for $45.00. I felt silly when I paid that much for such a hat!

 

[breezer]

Filson makes a wool beanie that they sell for $45.00. I felt silly when I paid that much for such a hat!

last Christmas my partner ordered me a watch cap from Mr Freedom of Los Angeles - it has a nice patch 'Sportsman' patch on it, but its essentially exactly the same as the ones available cheap in surplus stores. I think it was about $50. Maybe we should start a watch caps thread?

 

[Sloan1874]

My Son of Stag routine: walk in, walk around, look at some things, look at their price, walk out.

 

[breezer]

My Son of Stage routine: walk in, walk around, look at some things, look at their price, walk out.

I did that when I visited Self Edge in SF.

 

[Sloan1874]

Also: Blue in Green in New York. Lovely looking shop, loads of great stuff, but the prices? Sheesh.

 

[ton312]

A $250 wool cap is as ridiculous as it gets. Pure nonsense. Some butthead will buy it tho. That's all that matters to these sellers.

 

[Superfluous]

SofS is a great store, with a fantastic inventory, but you can buy FW from many different outlets in Japan for MUCH less than SofS. My goto outlet for FW is Speedway/Lofgren. If Speedway doesn't have it, my primary fall backs are Mirror Ball, McFly, Wild One or Genco. FW now ships to the US, so you can also purchase directly from Desolation Row.

 

[John Lever]

Their A1 is on my Xmas list.

 

[dudewuttheheck]

Freewheelers is already extremely expensive. I should know, I own several items from them. However, Son of a Stag's prices are atrocious. Not everything from FW is expensive. Their chambray shirts are fantastic and priced pretty much the same as most other equivalents. Even the normal FW stuff at that store seems overpriced.
Just do what we all do and buy from Japan. All of the retailers that @Superfluous listed are fantastic. I buy mostly from Genco and Mirror Ball myself. There is also Let it Be Clothing in Japan.