Quacky, honking, sublime

A Top 5 Spyplane Jacket drops tomorrow, actually cool golf wear a non-golfer could rock, did ~11 people in Brooklyn just witness the concert of the year & more

Blackbird Spyplane back once again. In today’s sletter we’ve got:

• The first golf-apparel line we’ve found that makes pieces we’d rock as non-golfers. The clothes are made in the UK, from very nice materials, and they’re only giving the faintest hint of “the fairway.”

• The New York Times interviewed us about a cursed new era in merch.

• Exclusive intel on a new small-batch drop — coming tomorrow — from one of the best single-operator makers in the Cool Clothes Game. The drop includes banger pants & a jacket enshrined in the Spyplane Pantheon of iconic garments.

• What’s looking like the concert of the year happened in Brooklyn last weekend. ~11 people were there to see it. We secured video evidence.

Let’s get to it —

Erin and I (Jonah) are not golfers, and we’re not alone in finding the “visual language” of its clothing broadly unappealing, so it’s not a sector of the apparel universe we look at very closely.

My ears pricked up, however, while hanging out in Paris last month with our friend Keith Henry, who in addition to making fantastic clothes for his namesake line Henry’s, has great taste in clothes generally. He told me he’d just come from the showroom of his buddy’s golf-apparel line, and that the clothes were sick.

He showed me their lookbook, I flipped through, then dug around some more, and I gotta agree: