Field notes

Postcards From Nowhere

Short dispatches from towns we actually print. Written by people who drove there on purpose, which is more than most travel writing can claim.

A postcard from Toledo

Ohio’s fourth-largest city, a glass museum nobody expects, and an afternoon that refused to become an anecdote.

A steel town on a great lake, thirty miles from Chicago and a world away from being mentioned in the same sentence.

Illinois, second city of the state by most counts, and a place that has quietly been good at things for a hundred and fifty years.

Every overlooked town has a landmark. It is usually the water tower. This is not a problem to be solved.

Why every shirt we print starts as a Comfort Colors 1717, and why the fade is the whole point.

A styling guide, and a short ethics ruling on claiming Prince Rupert without having dried off there.

How we decide what belongs in the catalog, and why "boring" is a slur we do not recognize.