1503 - Physician, astrologer and clairvoyant Nostradamus was born in St. Remy, Provence, France

1969 - The Boring 747 jumbo jet got it's first public preview as 191 people flew from Seattle, WA, to New York City, NY. Most of the people on board were reporters and photographers.

To kick off this week's update we've several outerwear options from outdoors specialists Ma.Strum. The brand, a partnership between Donrad Duncan and the Massimo Osti Studio, are renowned for their embrace of high tech fabrics and innovative construction. Heavy hitters in the outerwear arena, Ma.Strum provide highly durable and wholly practical attire, perfect to withstand the elements in the UK and beyond. We've the NC-1 jacket, Harrier Deck Jacket, Harrier Field jacket and their Defence Parka to choose from, each boasting more than a handful of exciting accents and useful features. These garments are certainly built to last and with...

This collaboration sees Mark Mcnairy team up with Maine based shoe makers Bass Weejun to create these Papa Brown scotch grain, four eyelet deck shoes and loafers. Hand crafted in Maine, USA from high quality leather and rubber sole.

...................to see these fellows. Japanese denim brand that as big in the USA back in the 80's/90's so they tell me. I will let you know what it looks like.

Heads up............we got an exclusive sneak preview of the forthcoming Barbour Tokihito collection aka the Barbour Beacon Heritage Brand aka some of the best and most sought after outerwear styles available on the market. Based on pieces from Barbour’s remarkable archive, Japanese designer Tokihito Yoshida once again, crafts a capsule collection of pure, unique and detail-rich jackets, engineered to the highest standards by Barbour. Barbour’s military, sporting and motorcycling heritage are channelled into the SS11 collection, the fourth season of this remarkable collaboration. Artfully-washed Duralinen produces the authentically aged Field Jacket and Trials Shirt jacket, both in army olive with...

After last weeks exclusives, I bet you thought that was about as special as things were able to get from the good old folk of Number Six. Well, we have only gone and top trumped ourselves as we have just received images of the 75th Anniversary Barbour International jacket that is about as rare and difficult to come across as rocking horse do do. To celebrate 75 years since Barbour introduced the iconic International jacket, it will be reissued as a limited edition in its original green. The daddy of all motorcycle jackets, the Barbour International boasts a design that...

Here we are, knuckling back down to business after all of the excitement and ooohs and aaahs of Guy Fawkes night. In the space of a week we had a double celebration. First came, the ever more Americanised and commercial Halloween festival (whatever happened to good old apple bobbing by the way) quickly followed by the much more British affair of everyone celebrating the foiling of an attempted terrorist attack on parliament by lighting huge great fires and then throwing on a load of nylon tights stuffed with newspaper. Personally, we are big fans of the latter because as well...