Where to Buy Paper Planes in Los Angeles Metro

Two shops in the LA area carry Paper Planes: Drip LA on Hollywood Boulevard, and Men's Land down in Carson in the South Bay.

Year-round sun makes truckers and bucket hats the sensible asks, mesh backs and no structure, built for the weather rather than suffered in it. The Original Crown, the founding 9Fifty, is the piece both are most likely to hold in any season.

They are twenty miles and one enormous county apart, with nothing in between. That is an honest picture of how thin the brand's LA coverage is next to New York's.

Hollywood Boulevard is the obvious stop if you are visiting, central, walkable, already on the itinerary.

Carson is the more interesting one. It serves the South Bay and the harbour cities, Torrance, Long Beach, Compton, Gardena, which are a long way from Hollywood in traffic terms and are covered by nothing else on this list. For a lot of people down there this is the shop, not the second choice. It also stays open until 9. (310) 527-7901.

One practical thing: Men's Land also trades as Metro Fusion. Check both names if you are calling ahead or reading a plaza directory.

And if you are further east, do not drive to Hollywood. The Inland Empire has two shops of its own, about forty miles out.