We know that there haven´t been much action on the blog lately, but we have some good reasons. On the first day of 2009 we will launch the new HBDY website with a new layout and additional content. There will be more writing about denim and garments in general as well as art of living objects and exorbiant collectibles, and not just HBDY stuff.
In the meantime the store is filled with great denim so you know where to send Santa for gifts!
We have e new post to present to you from our mystery music blogger. This time it´s about the Pixies!
DEATH TO THE PIXIES
This story´s about the Pixies, the great sonic soundarchitects from the mid80´s. I´m just reading the terrific book "Fool the world, the oral history of thepixies". Great reding it is.
The amazing thing with the band is that they where ready as a band straight off, they had the songs!Then, Charles Thompson (now Frank black and formely known as Black Francis) and Joey Santiago got together and wrote some songs, they then put up an adon town wich said "Bassplayer needed, you should like Peter, Paul and Maryand Husker du". The only one ever to respond was Kim Deal who of course got the job.
Kim or Mrs John Muphy as she called herself back then, tells us that thesong that the boys played at the audition was "Here comes your man", this isthough disputed by Joey who says it was "the Holiday song". This really doesn´t matter, the amazing is that any band in band-history would kill for writing one of these song through a whole career and Pixies did them beforethe band was properly formed!!!
The three of them teamed up with drummer David Lovering and played alot in Boston and got big attention through playing and the poster wich showed Charles naked, flipping the bird. The text said "Death to the pixies". The outfit got really good response and got to record 17 songs at the Fort Apache studio. The demo was called "the purple tape" and 8 of the songs was picked out by 4AD, english cultlabel who signed them. The first album is of course "Come on pilgrim", one of my favourite albums in my recordcollection.
The rest of the band´s history is to be read in the book and listening toall of their brilliant albums and after have met 3/4 of the band i must saythat the pixies are the coolest ever!!
/anecdoteman
www.myspace.com/anecdoteman
The Holiday song
http://se.youtube.com/watch?v=40Mglkn0Qfc
Here comes your man
http://se.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvi4iA3PnKE
We are working on a new layout for the blog with some additional content and surprises for you. So bear with us!
We got a new delivery from what is considered to be one of the finest denim producers throughout the world - Studio D'Artisan.
This time we got a pair of the very much sought after Lee Pro jeans - a classic style 15oz denim redline selvage. We also recieved a must-have denim jacket with a cord collar, and last but not least a fantastic chambray shirt with blue selvage, made with chainstitching throughout.
Click here for som advices on how to laundry your denim in our Haberdashery Lecture section.
This weeks delivery contains cotton, coconut and hemp news from Levi's® Red™ and Bayicon.
The famous regular fit denim from Bayicon is this autumn in a red selvage 14 oz quality 30% hemp compossison made in Japan. It is together with the box fitted long sleave shirt from Levi's® Red™ with coconut buttons the perfect combo and a winter must have.
Welcome in for more info and fitting.
We just recieved the 2nd part of the Skyway Trippers with some great knitted garments. Like this one that features the graphics from the best album sleeve ever made. Grab em while while you can.
Sorry, we are having some server problems with the Haberdashery webpage and online shop. It should be back online within soon!
To know new things - learn by studying the old.
We just got a ned delivery from the mountain village of Tajima in Japan. The Steam Locomotive gives you retro style jeans when it is at the best. The fantastic detailing and the loosely warp makes the denim perfect and easy to wear and tear.
Extra Heavy Course Weave Lot: D62XXX 
World War II Military Uniform Lot: SD51XX
We got some of the very demanded tickets for the Vice 4 year anniversary party this saturday!
Thank you all who came by yesterday to celebrate with us and Levi´s the Levi’s® Red™AW collection and many thanks to DJ El Nino Rockero Loco for som fine tunes!
