It's called having talent and taste!!

A vintage home-slapper trove, new natural-dye sweatshirts, winter hats, ill brown & black US-made sneakers & more

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— Jonah & Erin

What’s up ! In today’s Plane we’ve got:

• the vibiest vintage wall-art and home-jawns slinger we’ve come across in a minute — who just marked down a bunch of his pieces

• killer high-quality winter hats of all kinds out of Japan

• sick slept-on understated U.S.-made sneakers in a fantastic brown & black combo

• dope natural-dye sweatshirts that don’t cost a ton, featuring, among other virtues, a tasty “double drop shoulder” (??) effect …

• And more

Let’s get to it —