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These $228 Vintage NFL Hoodies Aren’t for Fair-Weather Fans
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These $228 Vintage NFL Hoodies Aren’t for Fair-Weather Fans
By Lanny Fuller
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We Did a Little Sole Searching for Pickup Season

Your basketball shoes might be ready for the court. But are your feet?

By Cool Material
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A Better Way to Bring the Shade

Shibumi Reinvented Beach Shade. Now It’s Coming for the Pop-Up Tent.

By Cool Material
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VESSEL Solved One of the Most Annoying Things About Your Golf Bag

The new Player VI Series gives every club its own space and rethinks the golf bag from top to bottom.

By Cool Material
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The Aperture Universal Wrench Is Inspired by a Camera Lens

There are a number of wrenches described as "universal." Most of the time, that means you're actually just getting a bunch of smaller wrenches or sockets built onto either side of a handle. Using the functionality of a camera aperture as his ideation starting point, Seattle-based designer Jordan Steranka has…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Turn Old Credit Cards Into Collar Stays With the Collar Stay Punch

Lose your collar stays and that crisp, clean dress shirt will look like a relaxed button-down made for the beach, not the boardroom. To make sure this never happens again, there’s the Collar Stay Punch. Like the Guitar Pick Punch before it, the Collar Stay Punch lets you take old credit…

By Mike Newman
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Tanner Goods Stowaway Boot Bag

Our favorite pair of boots has gotten us through everything from the glaciers of Alaska to mountain ranges in Germany we still can't pronounce, but damn if they're not a pain to travel with. You can stuff them with as many pairs of socks or boxers as you want, but…

By Cooper Fleishman
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​8 Field Jackets That Combine Utility and Style

Versions of the field jacket have been used in everything from military service to movie garb for decades. The same jackets that gave De Niro his signature look in Taxi Driver and was standard issue for US troops can also give you plenty of pockets for storage, clean lines and…

By Cooper Fleishman
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SILCA HX-One Toolkit

SILCA is a brand founded outside of Milan, Italy, almost a century ago (1917, to be precise). As of 2013, that made SILCA the oldest company in the bicycle industry to have been continually owned by the same family. That same year, the grandson of the founder sold the company…

By Cooper Fleishman
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