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Zen Threads caught our eye because their tees look strikingly similar to the styles you can easily spend $40 on, but they are available in a variety of color options for less than half the [...]

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Like it or not, the status of Valentine’s Day as a Hallmark Holiday is irrelevant. It doesn’t matter if we believe that because she doesn’t. Even the most frugal, “I don’t want chocolates and flowers” [...]

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There are few male accessories that add such a quick touch of class as the pocket square. One minute you're just another dude in a suit and the next you're being asked for champagne recommendations, smoking [...]

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If a lady were to open up your medicine cabinet, the last thing you'd want falling out of there are ultra feminine products like lavender scented facial scrubs and cucumber and fresh mist eye cream [...]

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TSOVET has, once again, managed to outdo themselves with their latest watch. The SVT-GR44 is a limited edition mechanical watch powered by the Valjoux 7750 movement. For your reference, that's like the Porsche of watch [...]

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We've seen and shared shirts for book lovers before, but never a brand that puts being a book worm side by side with a competitive sport. Novel-T creates t-shirts for folks whose heroes happen to [...]

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The big game generally goes down one of two ways: either you're the guy with the TV and the snacks, or you go to the house of the person that has the TV and [...]

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Do you ever spend your day wondering, "Gee, how could I possibly interact with more Google products today?" Neither do we. Between Chrome and Android and Gmail and Maps and Calendar and all their other [...]

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It's no secret that you have a lot of options if you choose to ignore the phone in your pocket and actually look at your wrist to figure out how late you are for that [...]

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Unlike dub monks or brogues or whatever new pair of high-fashion footwear just hit the ground, sneakers are something all men can get behind. Whether you prefer classic or high or low, sneakers are the [...]

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This is our third To A Tee Superbowl edition, so you can imagine that we're pretty happy we didn't start the feature back in 2008. If we had, this would be the same damn post. [...]

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Women aren't the only ones who complain about getting dressed up. While we might not spend the better portion of the day getting ready, tossing on a suit or a button down with some dress [...]

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Another day, another Vans Vault collaboration with a professional skater. Today's fresh kicks of the day come to you from Levi Maestro who is apparently known for his "wit, personality and charisma." We can't confirm [...]

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Here at Cool Material, we're writers and artsy fartsy, Etsy-loving types. Our knowledge of science is limited to what we learned from the nerds on The Big Bang Theory (You can't escape it.It's the new [...]

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Once you get to the point where a product you created is considered iconic, you don't do much to screw with that formula. Adidas Sambas and boat shoes are both pretty recognizable so combining the [...]

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