• City Of God Poplin Shirt ($80.00)
• Bear Mop T-Shirt ($32.00)
• Guillotine Twill Cut-Off Shorts ($92.00)
• Head Hunter Snapback ($30.00)

Recently, while racking my brain for the outfit that would make up the first Steady Peddlin’ of our Summer 12 collection, I decided that I wouldn’t leave the office until I had the perfect one. Stealing myself away in a pile of toys – because we have those here, f’realz – I waited until everyone else had left for the night and then wandered into the warehouse. Traipsing through the piled high boxes of oven fresh wares, I was overcome with the possibilites before me, the sheer majesty of the outfit combinations, rivaling that of the Sonic drink options. What I really wanted, however, was the City of God Poplin Shirt. Trouble was, the box containing it was way, way high.

I’m a pretty short guy (4′ 9” on a good day) so even on the stepladder it was just out of my grasp. Stretching out with a repurposed broom handle (I was a creative writing major, not an engineer) I thought I could reach it. I was almost there but then CRASH!! Disaster struck. I was firmly lodged beneath what must have been several tons of boxes, a Grey Gardens level of Jenga inspired catastrophe. Summer 2012 spilled out in droves around me. I was trapped in the dark, lonely warehouse without food, water, or the internet. The suddenly imminent possibility of death overcame me. When a feasible end point for your life appears in front of you, the perception of time becomes suddenly and radically different. In the unpredictable forwardness of our daily existence each second invariably becomes a smaller division of the larger whole, each subsequent passage statistically less significant, which allows you to deal with its unceasing procession.

However, trapped underneath those boxes, each passing moment was of equal importance, one more click towards a bitter end. The only thing that kept me going was the beauty of the clothing surrounding me. The Guillotine Twill Cut-Off Shorts, perfect for biking around the city in the Summer with their useful D-ring. The Bear Mop T-shirt in a azure blue, matching with the splashy accent on the Head Hunter Snapback and reminding me of the sky I may never see again. And, of course, the precious City of God Poplin Shirt, the object of my desires and potential Turin Shroud. If it had to end like that, at least it would end with me looking awesome. I slept. Thankfully, when the rest of my coworkers arrived less than 15 hours later, I realized the situation might have been a little bit less dire than I predicted. I did have some really bad pins & needles though, so, y’know. I gleefully called my parents to tell them the whole story, and my mom got scared and she said “you’re moving with your Auntie & Uncle in Bel-Air!”

Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725
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Мишка LA
1547 Echo Park Ave
Los Angeles, CA
213-536-4234

• Shenanigans Tank ($32.00)
• Toga Part Snapback ($30.00)
• Vladimir Denim Shorts ($83.00)

According to the internet, it’s 78 degrees outside in New York right now. By my calculations, I think you Earth dwelling humans (we Mole People never leave the central hive, of course) should all be outside with brown bagged tall boys grasped firmly in your 5 fingered hands, skipping down city blocks and maybe also having a dog. You should also probably be doing it wearing this outfit. Did I say probably? I meant definitely. Most definitely.

When it’s super hot out, picking the right gear is of the utmost importance, if only because you’ll have none of the opportunities to layer and disguise like you would in winter. Each and every item (and there will only be a few) must be just right. Don’t worry. We’re here for ya. As much as I hate to say it, the Shenanigans graphic is pretty damn awesome (go 76ers!) and it looks just splendid on a fresh white tank top. Then there’s the Vladimir Denim Shorts, with the gingham accents that make them perfect for spring. Finally there’s the Toga Party Snapback, in a navy and gray colorway to give your look some contrast. F-f-f-fresh. Go forth friends, and be merry in the warmth.

Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725
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Мишка LA
1547 Echo Park Ave
Los Angeles, CA
213-536-4234

• Lamour Keep Watch MA-1 ($206.00)
• Society Of The Snake Tee ($32.00)
• Mop Box New Era ($47.00)
• Alexei Selvage Denim Indigo ($158.00)

I know, I know, it’s not technically “blue” or “purple” but it just rolled off the tongue a little bit more than “magenta & seafoam.” And I really wanted to work that Wiz Khalifa reference into the post title. I really, really did. I have a secret you guys: I’m a time traveller who’s come forward from the summer of 2010 to write this post. It only took me two years to get here, but it was worth it. This strange and unfamiliar future is better than I ever could have imagined. Phones are slightly thinner. The economy, slightly better. There’s no more Redemption Island on Survivor. That was always a bullshit twist and the producers knew it.

Plus there’s all these great new Мишка clothes, which I liked so much that I put together this outfit. Man, I’m really deep in this bit right now. This color friendly outfit starts its journey of hues with the Lamour Keep Watch MA-1, featuring that great new Keep Watch designed by Lamour Supreme that is always prepared to kick some ass. But the intimidation factor doesn’t stop there. Far from it! Pulling back from the Мишка Archives (closer to the time I come from because I am a… oh nevermind that wasn’t going anywhere), there’s the Society of The Snake Tee.

If you’re wearing this on the street and see anyone make a complex hand gesture, don’t worry. They’re just recognizing another member of the group. For even more Мишка iconography, we’ve got the Mop Box New Era, that features a Bear Mop so fearsome that it had to imprisoned in this little box, just like a cenobite or Zod. Hell, even the Alexei Selvage Denim has a fun Keep Watch patch on the back pockets. So get out into this brave new world, and do it looking good!

Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725
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Мишка LA
1547 Echo Park Ave
Los Angeles, CA
213-536-4234

• Hooligan Polo ($66.00)
• Drop Out Crewneck ($74.00)
• Fanatic Snapback ($30.00)
• Scout Workpants ($103.00)

Steady Peddlin’ to the 4th dimension! Because the 4th dimensino is GIFs right? I’m pretty sure Carl Sagan said that one time. Look it up. We wanted to show off some layering with this newest outfit, but we also didn’t want to obscure any of the awesome items. More specifically, we didn’t want to hide the crimson power of the Hooligan Polo. Red is a bold choice, but in this case it’s most definitely the right choice. Pair it up with the clean badassery of the Fanatic Snapback for a truly winning combo.

If you just want the red to be an accent, however, you can throw the Drop Out Crew over the polo, giving off a look that says collegiate until people start to notice all the skulls and bloody eyeballs and death talk. Actually, come to think of it, that’s a lot of the same stuff that’s in real fraternities. Frats are weird. If the entire collegiate Greek system all joined up and staged some sort of Illuminati based revolution they could probably succeed. The only thing holding them back is beer. Thanks, Anheuser-Busch, for protecting out future from the fraternal masses. Complete the look with the Scout Work Pants featuring leopard print lining at the cuffs.

Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725
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Мишка LA
1547 Echo Park Ave
Los Angeles, CA
213-536-4234

• Hog’s Breath Denim Jacket ($227.00)
• Ferris Poplin Shirt ($88.00)
• Vladimir Denim Shorts ($83.00)

Long looked down upon by us haughty Americans (betcha never thought you’d hear that one, huh?), the past few years have found me believing more and more that the rugged Canadian Tuxedo may in fact be superior to our own. “How can this be?” you may ask, “aren’t they only for wangs, nimbuses, and some combination of those two things?” To which I would say, “shut your besuited face and watch me strut down the street in denim pants and a denim jacket, crushing cans of Labatt on my forehead and making girls fantasize about having missionary position sex with me on the bearskin rug in front of my futon. What does your cummerbund have to say about that? Sucka.

So yeah, today’s outfit is a Canadian Tuxedo. Better yet: it’s a Canadian Tuxedo with shorts! I just put everyone onto some Thom Browne x The Trailer Park Boys swagger right now. You’re gonna look so swank decked out in our indigo denim, both on the contrast-panel featuring Hog’s Breath Denim Jacket and the gingham accented Vladimir Denim Shorts. No need to triple stack the heavy cotton weave, so kept things dark in tone but light in weight with the Ferris Poplin shirt underneath. Eh.

Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725
—
Мишка LA
1547 Echo Park Ave
Los Angeles, CA
213-536-4234

• Bully Polo ($92.00)
• Olde School Snapback ($34.00)
• Mane Belt ($46.00)
• Cyrillic Logo Sunglasses ($10.00)

Confession time: my wardrobe is a little… how should I say this… color averse. I’ve pimped the monochromatic man look before, but that was essentially me spinning my sartorial insecurities into a conscious stylistic decision. #tactics. Not that I don’t love black & white, but everyone should really have some fresh color in their wardrobe. Don’t be like me.

My fears about experimenting with the rainbow stems from deep seeded self-consciousness and self-doubt that I developed during my exceedingly awkward junior high years where I was outfitted with braces, acne, glasses, and an eyepatch. And not a cool, pirate looking one. It had a red race car on it. That’s why I spend so much time on the internet. Geez, this leather couch sure is comfortable… If I were to fuck around with a color it would be green, which is why I’ve thrown together the above outfit, The Green Machine. I really hope Naked Juice doesn’t sue me. Who doesn’t love green? It’s the color of money, trees, weed, and the Ninja Turtles. My Mom is also from Ireland. They like green there right? I’ve never actually been. Is that green-Ireland thing just an American invention? #deepthoughts.

First up is the Bully Polo, this nifty striped number that features not one but two types of greens, neither of which I know the specific name of because that would be far too useful for my brain, but both of which look handsomely Spring ready. It’ll mesh very nicely with the brim of the Olde English Snapback, which sports a majestic M over heather grey. Maybe you’re not ready for vibrantly colored pants yet (hell, maybe you are I don’t wanna hold you back) but everyone is down with some pizazz in the belt department. Mane Belt: not just for holding up you pants anymore. Finally, because it’s hard to teach an old dog new tricks, a nice pair of black sunglasses. Phew!

Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725
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Мишка LA
1547 Echo Park Ave
Los Angeles, CA
213-536-4234

• Tarantula Shirt ($94.00)
• Black Widow Poplin ($74.00)
• Eldon Pencil Case ($26.00)
• Jurassic Card Case ($14.00)

When our arachnid overlords first showed up in the office I was like “really guys? Sentient eight legged megaspiders from a far off galaxy and you didn’t even wear a tie on the first day?” But then they hit me with the mind-control spores and after that I was actually pretty alright with the whole thing. Go figure. All hail planet Arraktar. In tribute to their ever-weaving greatness (the weaving. Oh, the weaving) we named two of the button up shirts from Spring 12 after them. This gift pleases them.

The Tarantula Shirt is pure paint splattered pleasure, and it excites the overlords greatly. I hope you like it too. I don’t want to have to go back to the cocoon… It comes in two colorways, Psyche Purple and Sunset Red. I think if you take a good luck at the shirts you’ll see those titles were perfectly chosen. We should get contracted by the crayon people. We also have the Black Widow Poplin, a really nice plaid that wonderfully showcases our classic magenta and seafoam colorways. The greyscale accents subtly emulate the look of a web, pleasing the overlords. Thumbs up to not being drained of your fluids!

What’s an outfit without some accessories right? Like, what’s a meal of gigantic radioactive flies that aren’t soaked in your own corrosive digestive enzymes, amirite? Hahahahaha. Praise Arraktar. So to complete the look we threw in the Eldon Belt and Jurassic Card Case. Get’em all, or Whole Milk’s gonna have to spend some time in the cocoon.

Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725
—
Мишка LA
1547 Echo Park Ave
Los Angeles, CA
213-536-4234

• Threshold Gingham Shirt ($86.00)
• Eastwood Poplin Shirt ($86.00)

With all the wacky weather vacillations we’re having, it’s got me thinking about how it’s probably the end of the world. Let’s not kid ourselves here. All those frogs falling from the sky? That’s no coincidence. The fact that wispy avatars of historical figures long dead are now roaming the streets proclaiming the secrets of the beyond whilst clawing their livers out over and over in Promethean masochism? Probably not just an aspect of the continual winter as predicted by Punxsutawney Phil. The tree outside my apartment bleeding human blood: not just an April thing. This is end times weather, people and lizardmen.

If you’re going to be dissolved by a massive solar flare and sent to the negative zone, then you might as well do it looking nice and you might as well be temperature appropriate. That’s why I’m taking this opportunity to show off two styles of our buttondown shirts that I’ve regretfully neglected to pimp to you thus far. Both of these handsome shirts – each of which come in two classic Spring colorways – are the perfect item for a stroll down the avenue with your best gal or terrifying interdimensional travel.

The Threshold Gingham – which obviously inspires thoughts of a picnic in the best way possible – is definitely up for layering, and it’s mini-checks won’t overwhelm anything you want to throw on top. But when it’s nice out, roll those sleeves up and rock that gingham proud. If you want something with a little more pizazz, check out the Eastwood Poplin, which features a really inventive plaid pattern as well as a contrastingly oriented bottom right panel. Going to R’lyeh? Why not get’em both!

Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725
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Мишка LA
1547 Echo Park Ave
Los Angeles, CA
213-536-4234

• Love Buzz Bleached Poplin Shirt ($74.00)
• Hog’s Breath Denim Jacket ($227.00)
• Jurassic Knapsack ($116.00)

As Loverboy so unforgettably and incessantly taught us, everybody is in fact working for the weekend. Those magical two days can sometimes feel like a trip to a brand new world that you’re transported to the second you clock out on Friday. Said time is precious, however, and its paucity inspires many of us to make the most of it. Sure, I may usually just end up playing match upon match of Starcraft II and trying not to look the delivery man in the eye as I accept his greasy bounty for the second time in one day, but the point is that I want to do something.

The greatest weekend victory of all is the brief jaunt, where you get out of wherever you normally live and embark on a +/- 48 journey of self-discovery and what have you. Or at least drink different kinds of beer than usual. If you’re going to do this you have to be able to pack light, and you have to have a versatile outfit because fuck changing or showering, do you think you’re ever going to see those people from Atlantic City or Philly or Toronto ever again? No. No you are not. This is the purpose of this weeks Steady Peddlin’, the Weekend Warrior. Good looking enough to facilitate that mini-fling, and durable enough to get you through any situation.

First thing up is the Love Buzz Bleached Poplin. The key here is that it’s actually a collared shirt, but it’s also badasss, so you’re never going to run up against dress codes or any crap like that, but you can also show off some ‘tude while you’re at it. Plus, it’s dynamic bleached design has the potential to make any spilled beverage or smudge from sleeping on a couch look like just another accent. The Hog’s Breath Denim is a pretty obvious choice for this one, as it’s lightweight and comfortable enough to take you from day to night, and you don’t have to worry if you, say, ball it up and throw it into your Jurassic Knapsack. Because any great trip needs a great piece of luggage. Go forth, weekend explorers, and prosper.

Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725
—
Мишка LA
1547 Echo Park Ave
Los Angeles, CA
213-536-4234

• Ferris Cardigan ($210.00)

• Spark Plug Chambray ($88.00)

• Fanatic Snapback ($30.00)

• Boris Skinny-Leg Denim ($101.00)

• Eldon Nylon Wallet ($16.00)

Considering the fact that it’s Monday morning, we should all be very aware of the fact that the weekend has to end sometime. And when the weekend ends, like it or not, you’re going to get down to some serious business. I live on the internet, so I don’t really have “outfits” per se. My work attire is more like those scenes in cyberspace in Lawnmower Man. But for the rest of you, here’s a getup that’s Мишка through and through but gets along copacetic with the office.

I also considered calling this outfit “the post game interview”, as I also think it would look nice and dandy on any NBA players confronting the press after a skirmish on the court. Nothing sums up the current fashion sense of the NBA more than a cardigan. It’s weird because it’s true! None better in my opinion than the Ferris Cardigan. This looks just as good on a parade float in downtown Chicago as it will in the office pool. It’s kickass leopard print design is echoed subtly in the accents on the equally impressive Spark Plug Chambray.

As you know, good things come in threes, so throw the Eldon Wallet into the mix. All this classiness deserves some pants to match, and the skinny legged Boris cut works perfectly in black or indigo. They’re fitted and dark enough to look formal, while also letting your boss know that slacks just aren’t your jam. Finally, everyone wants to switch off when they leave the office, so keep the Fanatic Snapback in your bag and throw it on after you clock out, instantly transforming this outfit from working to kicking it. Nailed it.

Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725
—
Мишка LA
1547 Echo Park Ave
Los Angeles, CA
213-536-4234