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the capital city scooter club is a classic scooter club dedicated to the preservation, restoration and enjoyment of classic european styled scooters such as vespa, lambretta, triumph, bella , or clones like pgo, bajaj, sears, puch, sil or serveta. every may they hold their annual garden city scooter run and spend three solid days seeing the sights of lower vancouver island on scooters.

participants range from local victoria scooter riders, to western canadian friends, and visitors from washington and oregon state. lower vancouver island is such an ideal area for scooters, with beautiful natural sites, beautiful old english architecture and plenty of pubs, cafes & parks to stop off at and hang out with your crew. still life is happy once again to help the ccsc enjoy their may long weekend in style with gifts from us and fred perry including an assortment of limited run polos and a gorgeous throw back leather fred perry bag. if you've got a scooter and are looking to join up at any time, check out their website - they'll be stopping at heaps of our favorite victoria locations like peacock billiards, scooter underground, vancouver island brewery and smiths pub during the three day rally.

still life congratulates the capital city scooter club and all it's visiting friends on their 26th annual run and look forward to seeing you all this weekend - ride safe.

founded in 1963 by arthur bernard sugarman, the ben sherman brand is the result of an entrepreneurial brit (sugarman) marrying the american daughter of a californian swimwear producer. after marrying and returning to brighton, england sugarman purchased a shirt factory and began producing the oxford-cloth american-style button-down shirts he saw the early 1960s modern jazz fans wearing with pride.

by producing his own version of the shirts worn by visiting american jazz artists like miles davis, dizzy gillespie and oscar peterson as well as colourful resort-style madras plaids, sugarman quickly became england's mod god as the founder of ben sherman. the ben sherman originals label was created and by 1965 the company had opened a small office on the upper floors of a shabby office-block in a london backstreet - the rest, is history.

ben sherman originals have proudly hung alongside comparable brands like fred perry & peguin at still life for years, but fills a very distinct niche for us in particular. the mod fits, crisp collars & summery madras plaids give ben sherman its own style that has our victorian boys coming back season to season for another fantastic ben sherman shirt. we've got a nice batch of styles in store right now, including the summer shirt (the explosion madras/gingham shirt pictured to the right) that will only look better the more you wear & wrinkle it all summer as you soak up the sun.