Mission Mission

New fall fashions are in stock now at Thrift Town! This peach is displayed prominently on the sale t-shirt rack southeast of the checkout counter. Represent!

P.S. The under-appreciated third season of The O.C. is streaming now at TheWB.com.

Some Australian fashion blog called Wardrobe Wonderland today highlights a score from right here in the Mission. Says the wearer:

I recently got back from two months in the US, so my dress is from a vintage store called Thrift Town in the Mission District in San Francisco. It’s a peacock blue Thai silk vintage dress from Pauline’s in Bangkok. I love how vintage brands and labels are named after the maker.

Read on for more pics and analysis. “Vintage store”!!!

Previously:

Help a Former MM Blogger Get on Mad Men!

Caitlin Podiak snapped this beaut’ at the fair yesterday. Perfect composition, right?

Update: SFist has tons more pics.

Sexpigeon jokes that it might be a portable hummingbird feeder, but he would like to know for real.

Forget what you think you know about flip-flops and shorts, Sex Pigeon thinks this is a winning outfit.

If you disagree, then you’re so behind the times. Enjoy your gangsta loony toons T-shirt and flannel shirt tied around your waist.

Fashionist goes to Berlin! What fun! And check out the pumps on this mystery girl! Read on for some analysis and some close-ups.

Previously:

Fashionist Goes to Vietnam

Fashionist Goes to Austin

Remember how stoked we all were for the Pabst cycling caps last year?

Well, as of today, Pushbike has an even cooler Pabst design, as well as this awesome Tecate model. And, as Pushbike’s blog post notes, you can’t count out the drunk Hamm’s bear (or the handsome Hamm’s typeface):

Here’s a passage about “Holly Golightlys,” AKA the girls of the Mission:

You see them flying down Valencia Street on Vespas, their wildly improvised get-ups composed of, say, rags scavenged from the Bay Area’s fabled thrift shops (Out of the Closet in the Castro, Eco-Thrift in Vallejo, the Goodwill outpost just off the 101 Freeway in San Rafael), Marni skirts, vintage SM leathers culled from an eclectic assortment of goods at Marc Josef’s locally legendary antiques shop, Tradesmen, and wingtip shoes. You see them particularly on a stretch of 18th Street, where Dolores Park vies for landmark status with Tartine, the upscale pizza joint Delfina and Bi-Rite grocery, a kind of foodie Vatican.

Read on.

(Thanks for the tip, jinksy!)

If I have sarcastic facial hair that makes fun of ironic facial hair does that make it moronic?

See also the Side Stash . . .

And the Ironic Combovers.

Burrito Justice hipped us to the Mission Reds some time ago:

Mission Reds baseball players, Heinie Sand, Clyde Beck, Jim Stoner, Al Wright, and Babe Dahlgren. Date 1934 Apr. 9.

When I first saw that picture I thought, “man, that guy who set his coffee down on the lower left hand corner really ruined this shot for future generations.” Then I thought, “how cool would it be to have a reproduction of the Mission Reds uniform?”

Well it looks like someone answered that call. Burrito J commenter Andrew pointed out that Ebbet’s Field Flannels has them for sale:

While they aren’t 100% faithful reproductions, it’s still a pretty cool hat tip to the only baseball team named for a neighborhood where Latinos and Hipsters politely ignore each other’s existence. The downside? They cost $185. Not exactly recession pricing. But hey, maybe if enough of us commit to a bulk order they’ll knock it down a few.

Update!

Wrong caption for the old-timey photo. Updated. (thanks Trapper!)

More Mission Reds paraphernalia from Ebbet’s:

Ball Cap $35

Road Jersey $185

Ground Crew Jacket $79

Previously:

Major League Mission