When brothers Emil and Sandy Corsillo set up their online store Hickoree’s Hard Goods—right around the time they launched their fresh, always-surprising accessories line The Hill-Side—they didn’t want to carry the same old things they saw everywhere else. Instead, they filled in their collection of modern, tough-to-find menswear with oddities and bits of nostalgia, and now that Hickoree’s has an IRL location in Williamsburg, you can experience the interplay of Folk shirts and slingshots for yourself. Here, the guys share five of the finds that make their shop something special. Throwback ToysEmil: “We liked the idea of an area in the store where the kids could go when their parents were looking—and then we realized we are the kids. Early on, The Hill-Side was taking up all of our attention completely, so there was a period when we weren’t sending mailers or doing press for Hickoree’s. And the corollary to that was that we were buying non-seasonal products like the slingshots, balsa-wood airplanes, and Slinkys to fill out the inventory.” Solmate SocksSandy: “This is a good example of a product that I think we were able to see in a different context.”Emil: “These socks are sold at craft fairs and the coolest stores in small towns in the Midwest. But I have 20 pairs of them—they are all I ever wear when it’s cold enough out. I’ve never ripped a hole in a pair. They’re made in Vermont from mostly recycled cotton.” Leather Man Ltd. BeltsEmil: “This company is from Connecticut, and it does a lot of private label for stores like Brooks Brothers. They make a belt using a much finer, woven cotton that has a more dressy, preppy look, but we asked them to make this style, which is a little more rugged and tougher, using this heavy webbing that’s the base for a ribbon belt.” Truman Handcrafted WalletsEmil: “The guy who makes these wallets, Teppei Teranishi, has a great blog called New Grass. I’ve been reading it for a long time and then saw that he was experimenting with some small leather stuff, so we got in touch right away.” Regional CandySandy: “One of my favorite things we have is this made-in-America candy. I don’t know where Abba-Zaba’s from, but I never saw it growing up. That and things like Idaho Spud—they’re just not available anywhere anymore.” These guys have good taste, huh? Just wait til you see what they made us. Sign up for our newsletter to get word first.

The basic concept for The Hill-Side, a workwear-inspired accessories line that’s blowing up right about now, came from a measurement. “I had bought this vintage, hickory-stripe fabric,” explains Emil Corsillo (right), who created the Brooklyn-based, Japan-influenced brand with his younger brother, Sandy. “It happened to be 54-inches wide from selvedge to selvedge. I made a tie that ran from one end of the fabric to the other, and it worked really well for a first test—it felt like an ‘it was meant to happen’ type of thing, like the most simple, perfect solution to making a tie.” Their square-tipped style took on fast, and soon enough, the orders—of ties and pocket squares, handkerchiefs, and scarves as well—were too big for the very small lots of salvaged fabric they were using. “Everything really accelerated when we found a factory in the Garment District. And we have a Japanese friend who I went to college with and who Sandy was roommates with in Brooklyn—he had gone back to Tokyo, and he found this amazing Japanese mill that we still use as our main source for fabric today,” Emil adds. “So we suddenly had this product we thought was really cool, a fabric resource that we had dreamt about, and a factory to make the stuff.” Come back tomorrow to score their edition! And click here to get a reminder.

If you’ve ever knotted on a tie or scarf from The Hill-Side, you’ve probably obsessed over the fabric, which Emil and Sandy Corsillo spend a serious amount of time sourcing. And while classic-but-rare Japanese cottons and rich, interesting tweeds (like the one the guys used for their latest Of a Kind edition) are the cornerstones of the line, there’s always room for some curveballs. “We’re running into a kind of Hill-Side fan who wants a novel thing every season—who’s drawn to the craziest thing in the line,” Emil explains. And that makes it easy to get swept away: “There’s fabric we’ll love in theory, but when you finally roll it out and look at it, it looks like it’s for a pair of pajamas,” Sandy adds. These are some of the materials that have passed the PJ test. Check out our fave fabric of the moment: the speckled herringbone tweed the Corsillo brothers used for their latest Of a Kind tie. Blanket LiningsEmil: “We used two different wool blanket linings last fall, outside of our main collection—that’s become a good way to test things out. We were so blown away by these fabrics that we had to use them right away, so we made scarves and ties last winter, right before Christmas. People were going crazy trying to find them. So there are five of them in the fall collection this year.” Unlikely ChambraysEmil: “There’s this yellow chambray that our factory is talking about discontinuing, and they want to know if we still want to use it—because no one’s working with yellow chambray. I think one approach we take is finding something that we like and doing it in every color. You might not wear a whole shirt in yellow chambray, but you can wear a tie.” Guatemalan FabricsSandy: “We’re going to continue to use Japanese fabrics a lot, but we want to move into new areas, too, that aren’t so well-known. This is hand-woven in Guatemala—it’s for next season.” CamouflageEmil: “We’ve actually done camo since our first season. No one in the U.S. bought it then. It only sold to the Japanese stores, but it sold really well. Now, people here are getting turned onto it. This one’s called Mitchell Pattern—it’s really obscure and doesn’t even look like camouflage. It looks like pop art.” FloralsEmil: “The first floral we did was a knock-out hit. It was this really beautiful over-dyed indigo, selvedge fabric, and the flowers weren’t so pronounced. These three prints are the next ones we did. It’s funny: A lot of floral-print stuff just started showing up. I don’t think anyone was discussing it with each other, but a bunch of like-minded brands got into flowers at the same time.”