(Image: Bogey Boys)
Bogey Boys, the new golf fashion line from Macklemore, will bring its old school game to the rapper’s home turf with a Pike/Pine retail pop-up. The new 10th Ave shop is just a block over from where Capitol Hill’s old Value Village was preserved and redeveloped as a home for a new WeWork and, yes, a virtual golf bar slated to open in the building by the end of the year.
“From the cardigans to the polos to the hoodies, men and women can wear this collection,” hip hop artist Ben Haggerty told the Seattle Times about his new passion for golf as the hype for Bogey Boys was building earlier this year. “It has been a passion project, and also a way that when I say shake up the game of golf, that’s not just clothing. That’s one aspect of it. I think we need to shake up the entire narrative and make it accessible for everyone.”
The company is touting the new Bogey Boys shop as “an amazing flagship pop up experience” but current plans call for the location and a vintage retail component to be open only through the end of the year. The shop was recently hiring, on the look for candidates “who love engaging with new people, enjoy collaboration, and who want to create a space for community,” plus, “bonus points if you love golf!”
The company announced the shop will debut Saturday, September 18th at 1523 10th Ave.
It’s the former home of high end retailer Totokaelo where the fashion shop folded in the summer of 2020 amid COVID-19 restrictions. The two-level store neighbors popular Capitol Hill bookstore Elliott Bay Book Company and equally popular Linda Derschang joint Oddfellows.
It’s a busy neighborhood. Across the street, Glossier’s revived global retail ambitions got a new Pike/Pine start in August as the beauty brand opened its first store following a wave of pandemic closures.
Small ventures are also afoot with adaptogenic mushroom coffee startup Wunderground Cafe set to replace the neighborhood’s cupcake shop.
Meanwhile, around the corner on 11th Ave, virtual golf bar Five Iron Golf says it is swinging into Seattle with a 12,000 square-foot venue set to open by the end of the year on Capitol Hill.
All in all, the Bogey Boys pro shop joins a Pike/Pine mix far different from the days of Macklemore’s rise in hip hop and popped tags at Value Village — but maybe not such a long shot from the artist’s side of the Hill.
UPDATE: The project will include Goose Magees Vintage Mall that will “bring the vintage mall experience back to Capitol Hill, giving a new generation a glimpse into the past.”
Customers can shop vintage clothing, mid-century furniture, collectibles, antiques and other curated finds. The Bogey Boys flagship and Goose Magee’s Vintage Mall will be open through the end of the year.
· Tom Gorz Collection/ Epic Antique
· In the Comfort Of
· Kassie Keith Antiques and Collectibles
· The Barn Owl Vintage
· Throwbacks NW
· Jacob Willard Home
· Vintage by Ty
With the vintage mall taking over the bottom floor of the store, street level will be filled with “the newest Bogey Boys collection” and a 1,500-square-foot putting green.
Learn more at bogeyboys.com.
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Nobody:
Absolutely nobody:
Macklemore: Let’s make golf clothes.
What a strange choice of a business and even stranger choice of location.
Yes building a golf clothing store next to a golf simulation bar is really odd.
I look forward to checking it out. Some people will go to Glossier others to here, that’s what living in a city is all about. You don’t have to like everything.
Lmao dude is pulling a Bill Murray. He also has his own golf apparel brand. https://www.williammurraygolf.com/
Yet another attraction for Tukwillinaites to ride the light rail to #caphill for lmao.
You’re a horrible person.
Or just a local guy doing something weird and activating an empty retail space with something he and his crew think is fun. A vintage mall there would be cool. I hope the golf sim place craters, though.
Why all the derision, folks? So you don’t like Macklemore, or golf, or (God forbid) Tukwillinaites. I’d rather have golf apparel and foot traffic in the neighborhood than empty storefronts, graffiti, and trash.
Thanks, JCW. I agree with your openness. It’s sad that the same folks who protest a lack of acceptance and equality in our past, seem strikingly opinionated against anything that doesn’t conform to their perception of what the Hill represents. I’ve lived here over 40 years and it seems like we are losing a spirit of acceptance in favor of a new form of discrimination.
HTS3, I really like your point here: “I’ve lived here over 40 years and it seems like we are losing a spirit of acceptance in favor of a new form of discrimination.”
I moved to the hill in ’97, and I gotta say I agree with you. If this was an army recruitment office maybe I could see it being a terrible thing for the hood but like…. Y’all, it’s golf clothes. Save your outrage.
Amen!
SO True People! Have not been in Seattle for a long time, i plan on a trip to visit this new golf wear shop. Husband loves golf and collects hats, hope Macklemore carries a hat with his store logo! I think this is a real treat to check out and a super wonderful idea Corbin T