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Just Landed: Heller’s Cafe at Ian

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SLIDESHOW: Larry’s Collection, a line of separates reproduced from historical Americana on the Heller’s Cafe by Warehouse label. Available—and this is a boon—at Ian on Second Ave. Here, a replica of a 1930s sweatshirt.

SLIDESHOW: Larry’s Collection, a line of separates reproduced from historical Americana on the Heller’s Cafe by Warehouse label. Available—and this is a boon—at Ian on Second Ave. Here, a replica of a 1930s sweatshirt.

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SLIDESHOW: Larry’s Collection, a line of separates reproduced from historical Americana on the Heller’s Cafe by Warehouse label. Available—and this is a boon—at Ian on Second Ave. Here, a replica of a 1930s sweatshirt.

SLIDESHOW: Larry’s Collection, a line of separates reproduced from historical Americana on the Heller’s Cafe by Warehouse label. Available—and this is a boon—at Ian on Second Ave. Here, a replica of a 1930s sweatshirt.

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Based, religiously, on a 1940s Cowichan sweater.

Based, religiously, on a 1940s Cowichan sweater.

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Based, religiously, on a 1940s Cowichan sweater.

Based, religiously, on a 1940s Cowichan sweater.

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It’s like you salvaged it yourself from some ghost town train yard.

It’s like you salvaged it yourself from some ghost town train yard.

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It’s like you salvaged it yourself from some ghost town train yard.

It’s like you salvaged it yourself from some ghost town train yard.

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Turn-of-the-century denim served as the pattern for these jeans.

Turn-of-the-century denim served as the pattern for these jeans.

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Turn-of-the-century denim served as the pattern for these jeans.

Turn-of-the-century denim served as the pattern for these jeans.

You have to forget what you think you know about vintage collectors when you meet Larry McKaughan. Dismiss the Value Village warriors with their ironic ’80s sweaters; set aside, for now, the Mad Men-obsessed midcentury mods and their nipped-waist party dresses.

Even the New York Times acknowledges the cult-like heritage-brand hounds who fall in line…