Good Finds: Hemp Leisurewear, Queen Albums, & Much More
โ€” Updated on 27 September 2024

Good Finds: Hemp Leisurewear, Queen Albums, & Much More

โ€” Updated on 27 September 2024
Randy Lai
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Randy Lai

Every week, Boss Huntingโ€™s editors spend far too much time scouring the web: in search of the coolest gear, food & drink, and destinations worth trekking to across the globe.

In our latest edition of โ€˜Good Findsโ€™, weโ€™ve got hemp jackets made in NYC, the latest prestige TV series from Taylor Sheridan and plenty more.

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Slouโ€™s Hemp โ€˜Studioโ€™ Jacket

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If my tirade in this Septemberโ€™s first edition of โ€˜Good Findsโ€™ didnโ€™t make it clear, Iโ€™m a bit obsessed at the minute with all the deconstructed suits cropping up across the fashion spectrum.

Weโ€™ve seen this phenomenon playing out at a range of budgets and scales: whether itโ€™s the matchy-matchy knit suiting of Loro Piana (in case youโ€™ve got a spare $7,500 lying around) or the less conventional, yet more approachable fare of a label like Venroy.

For something sitting comfortably between those extremes, I really enjoy Slou: a relatively new label out of New York, whose mantra is โ€œto make thoughtful garments for modern living.โ€ The brandโ€™s โ€˜Studioโ€™ jacket (available in white or sage-green) exemplifies this effectively.

Basically a three-button work jacket cut with a high-rolling collar, Iโ€™d wager it can be thrown over most of the casualwear youโ€™re already excited to wear as we get further into summer. Or, for a look that is polished enough to be worn out to dinner on weekends, consider pairing it with the matching self-belted trousers.

Breguet Type XX Chronograph Ref. 2067 (Now In Rose Gold)

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When it comes to watches, Iโ€™ve long been a fan of precious metal chronographs: a hilariously paradoxical combination, considering the practical origins of this historic time-keeping complication.

There are already loads of great watches in this particular niche (Vacheron Constantinโ€™s 47101 in yellow gold is one I think about constantly), but Breguetโ€™s latest Type XX makes a strong case for itself at the pricier end of the spectrum.

To all mechanical intents the same flyback chrono that Breguet relaunched in 2023, the big updates here are a blue dial with denim-esque sunburst finish and bidirectional ceramic bezel. Both details are handsome accompaniments to the Type XXโ€™s 42mm case, which gives off a real โ€˜large and in chargeโ€™ look now that itโ€™s made out of rose gold.

Landman (Streaming November 17th)

Recommended by our resident cowboy-core scholar Garry Lu, Landman is the highly anticipated new TV series from Taylor Sheridan (Yellowstone, Sicario, Hell or High Water) that arrives on Paramount+ next month.

Based on the award-winning Christian Wallace podcast Boomtown, the show is set to follow Billy Bob Thornton as Tommy Norris โ€” a crisis executive at an oil company operating in West Texas.

In classic Sheridan fashion, the new series is populated by a cast of โ€œroughnecks and wildcat billionaires,โ€ whose wheelings and dealings in the world of Big Oil make for a rich backdrop against which viewers can expect plenty of primetime drama.

Demi Moore, Jon Hamm, and Andy Garcรญa co-star. Check out the full trailer above.

Satisfy โ€˜Rippyโ€™ Running Shorts

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When my colleague Andrew Udovenya explained that his contribution this week was gear from yet another urban running label, Iโ€™ll admit I felt a wee bit sceptical.

Fortunately, that reflex quickly gave way to a sensation of relief because now we get to share Satisfy, a relatively unsung Paris-based athleticwear brand, with the BH readership.

Founded by runner Brice Partouche, Satisfyโ€™s big advantage is in how it manages to infuse charm and daily wearability into clothes that are, primarily, performance-wear.

The brandโ€™s โ€˜Rippyโ€™ running shorts, constructed using a 100% nylon shell, are indeed hi-tech but the accompanying colour, texture, and outturned label make it great fun to wear even when youโ€™re just popping out for a coffee.

A Night At The Opera (Queen Album)

Though new and/or underrated recommendations are something we love to focus on for โ€˜Good Findsโ€™, thereโ€™s nothing wrong with occasionally revisiting an old classic. And among fans of British stadium rock โ€” my colleague Andrew evidently being among them โ€” it doesnโ€™t get much more classic than Queenโ€™s A Night At The Opera.

The fourth studio album from Freddie Mercuryโ€™s legendary rocker quartet, it is best remembered for the spawning the single Bohemian Rhapsody: arguably the Queen anthem that, in 2021, Rolling Stone also dubbed one of its โ€˜500 Greatest Songs Of All Time.โ€™ That single, producing using nearly 200 tracks of overdubs, encapsulates the crux of A Night At The Operaโ€˜s appeal.

An album that is inspired by flights of baroque, prog-rock, and metal fancy, it is the sound of Queen at the peak of its powers. Or, as one contemporary critic put it, music from a โ€œband of hungrily competitive individualists on a big roll of friendship and delight.โ€

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Randy Lai
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Following 6 years in the trenches covering consumer luxury across East Asia, Randy joins Boss Hunting as the team's Commercial Editor. His work has been featured in A Collected Man, M.J. Bale, Soho Home, and the BurdaLuxury portfolio of lifestyle media titles. An ardent watch enthusiast, boozehound and sometimes-menswear dork, drop Randy a line at [email protected].

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