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Beautiful rare '90s RALPH

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Beautiful rare '90s RALPH

Spyplane Jawn Archeology, plus new natural-dyed slappers and cult visionary TV

May 19, 2022
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Beautiful rare '90s RALPH

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Today we’ve got recon on natural-dye slappers and a cult visionary TV show…

But first — if you grew up, as I (Jonah) did, in ‘90s-era NYC, there was a stretch when you were inundated daily with the sight of swaggy people rocking all manner of excellent Ralph Lauren gear — a phenomenon that included Steve Martin (in a monster fit, w/ Mephistos, below right) and reached its apotheosis with the Lo Lifes (below left), a crew of outerborough POLO BOOSTERS who rocked more-graphical Ralph jawns very saucily...

Photos via Dazed and @RLGoesHard

These days if yr digging around for deep-cut Ralph gems, however, there’s so much floating around it can be paralyzing and there’s such a robust collector’s market that the prices (i.e. on anything “Snow Beach”) can get NUTTY…

But what if we told you there’s a (functionally unisex!) trove of durable, high-swag, and relatively speaking slept-on and therefore in many cases CHEAP vintage Ralph slappers that look as good in 2022 as they ever have… ??

O yes: It’s time for a Blackbird Spyplane Archeological Treasure Dig…

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