Popeye — Issue 950

The June 2026 issue of Popeye, Magazine House's fashion and culture monthly for city boys, given over to a catalogue of clothes and goods made in the United States.

The theme goes back to where the magazine began. Reporting for its first issue in 1976 took Popeye to the American West Coast, where it found plain, practical dressing. In Japan that style came to be called amekaji and later fed into Shibukaji and the Ura-Harajuku scene, while military, work, sports and outdoor clothing kept shaping Japanese fashion. The issue returns to it for the magazine's fiftieth anniversary.

Thirty-four contributors write about American things they love, Tetsu Nishiyama presents Shibukaji for 2026, and seven voices, among them W. David Marx and Emily Adams Bode Aujla, consider what amekaji is. The catalogue itself sorts tough, functional American-made goods into twelve themes, from long-established makers and newcomers alike. Other stories go looking for lesser-known American manufacturing in New York and New England, follow Americana as worn in Paris, London and Seoul, and pick out American vintage worth hunting for now.

Magazine House, June 2026. Softcover. In Japanese.