King of vintage
Subtitle: no. 1, Heller's Cafe, featuring Americana clothing from Larry's collection
By: photography and text by Rin Tanaka
Edition: 1st special ed.
Publisher: Rin Studios
Published: 2010
Place of publication: San Clemente, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Clothing and dress; Collectors and collecting; History; Pictorial works; Vintage clothing; T-shirts; Motorcycle jackets; Denim; Jackets; Sports uniforms; Sport clothes
Description: This book features over 200 examples of vintage clothing from Larry's Collection. Heller's Cafe is owned by Larry McKaughan in Seattle, WA. The author describes this as the birthplace of grunge music and fashion in the late 1980s and the top vintage clothing dealer in the area since the mid 1990s. The collections cover clothing from the 1870s to the 1950s, including his signature "worker's denim uniforms" and also military, sports, hunting, motorcycle, etc. Book accompanied an exhibition "Inspiration" Feb. 12-13, 2010 at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif.
Notes: 1st edition (with a elegant vinyl leather cover) will be a limited printing with only 3000 copies.
Table of contents: title: 1. Old sport uniforms (1900s-1950s); title: 2. War-years military clothing (1880s-1950s); title: 3. Vintage denim wear (1880s-1950s); title: 4. Hunting & leisure sport fashions (1900s-1940s); title: 5. Pre-WWII sport jackets (1920s-1940s); title: 6. Vintage motorcycle fashions (1930s-1950s).