Category: Particular Pieces
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New Obsessions: Amundsen Sports
During my first downhill ski experience last year I managed to take a fall that was so hard I thought I died and went to heaven. It was… educational, and I was laughing so hard that I couldn’t see where my skis and poles had gone. Or maybe that was the snow now caked onto […]
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Rules of Adornment
I don’t own a lot of jewelry as a general rule (at least, not yet). It wasn’t something that I was overly confident in experimenting with in high school outside of a simple silver ring I used to wear on my pointer finger, so when I finally started to explore and look at what I […]
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New Obsessions – Nanushka
I have to be brutally honest. This post is filed under “New Obsessions”, but my infatuation with Nanushka has been running strong for about two years. Indeed, the first time I saw the brand was when I was stalking the website of a company that I have wanted to work with for quite some time. […]
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From Away – Todd Snyder x L.L. Bean
I don’t know what I expected to see when I opened Instagram a few days ago and had the usual torrent of ads pop up. I mean there were the usual things like terrible games and brands that I follow doing collection announcements, but I was completely unprepared to see the names “Todd Snyder” and […]
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New Obsessions – Ginew (Gih-noo)
Of all the companies I could choose to cover with this blog, this company stands proud as the only Native American owned denim collection in the world. Crafting what the owners call “Native Americana”, Ginew honors the familial legacy of Erik Brodt and Amanda Bruegl while at the same time looking forward and collaborating with […]
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New Obsessions – Imogene + Willie
Something I note about a website (or a store), often before I even start looking through the products, is the way that the owners or creators play with color. There’s more research surrounding the way that colors are put together and the way that those colors make you feel. So when I went to go […]
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Break(Down)
Now that I’ve started off this post with one of the worst puns of all time, let’s begin. There are three types of down that we have to become comfortable with first. Natal down, body down and powder down (yes, the word down will begin to lose all meaning soon. Please bear with me.) Natal […]
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Flannel’s Law(s)
Every man, regardless of where they live, where they work or what their “ideal aesthetic”is, should own at least one flannel. It’s the workhorse of the modern-man’s wardrobe, being accessible in so many cuts and finishes that it would be impossible to have a men’s blog and fail to mention the myriad of options that […]
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2020: Last Minute Gifts for the Modern Man
I know that we only have 6 days left until Christmas, but I figured that it wasn’t quite *too* late to write a quick little gift guide for the men in our lives. However, this isn’t the same sort of manly gift guide that a lot of other places will attempt to sell. I love […]
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Particular Pieces – Denim Jackets
If there’s something that’s more quintessentially American as a good, broken-in denim jacket, I haven’t found it yet. There’s just something so satisfying about putting a cute outfit together and tossing on a light jacket because the leaves are turning colors and some cute boy asked you to go pick apples with him at the […]
Rewriting Masculinity 