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Sheffield Revives a Classic: Crafting Quality, Technology, and Affordability Into Every Timepiece

The microbrand making watches the old-fashioned way. By overdelivering.

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The Winter Olympics, But Make It Wearable
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Good, Better, Bezel: How G-SHOCK’s G-STEEL Keeps Toughening Up Beauty
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Bowl Season Gear by Nike

If you’re gearing up for the most wonderful, chaotic stretch of the college football calendar, start here.

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There’s Nothing Cool About Being Cold

Signature Innovation Group hid a flannel in this corduroy jacket.

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When a Dress Shoe Trend Turns Out to Be a Classic
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The Winter Olympics, But Make It Wearable
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Bowl Season Gear by Nike

If you’re gearing up for the most wonderful, chaotic stretch of the college football calendar, start here.

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There’s Nothing Cool About Being Cold

Signature Innovation Group hid a flannel in this corduroy jacket.

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When a Dress Shoe Trend Turns Out to Be a Classic

The monk strap’s journey from blog-era favorite to modern classic

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The Winter Olympics, But Make It Wearable

Nike’s cold-weather era is peaking, don’t miss out.

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Feeling the Burn

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The Handsome Fan’s Style Guide to the NBA Finals

The Best Wheated Bourbons That Aren’t Pappy Van Winkle
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The Best Wheated Bourbons That Aren’t Pappy Van Winkle

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Hypershell X Review: The Future of Hiking Has Legs

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The Story You’ll Tell When Someone Compliments Your Shirt

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G-SHOCK’s 10-Year Pursuit of Perfection: The Fine Metallic Series Delivers Unseen Innovation

50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50
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50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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150 Years of Bulova: The Watch Documentary You Didn’t Know You Needed

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I Went Down a Nixon Watch Rabbit Hole. Here Are the 4 Most Surprising Details I Found

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Krautmotors Custom Made a BMW F 850 GS Motorcycle in Honor of the 100th Anniversary of Bauhaus

This year is the 100th anniversary of the Staatliches Bauhaus, aka Bauhaus, aka one of the most influential art schools and design movements of all time. In order to celebrate that influential centenary, Krautmotors custom-built a BMW Motorrad F 850 GS motorcycle that is best described as out of this…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
Whiskey Peaks Grand Canyon Whiskey Glasses

We could go on for days about our favorite bottles of whiskey, their mash bills and the distilleries that produced them. While we love diving into our Whiskey Bucket List whenever the opportunity presents itself, the glass you're drinking that whiskey out of is just as important for the experience.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Accessories
adidas Y-3 Raito Racer Triple Black

If Ninjas wore sneakers, they might just don the Y-3 Raito Racer. As part of a collaboration between Japanese avant garde fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto and the three-stripe brand, the Y-3 Raito Racer gets mostly black coloring this time around after two previous models, a black/white and an all-white version.…

By Amos Kwon
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SEMA High School Vehicle Build Program Jeep Wranglers

Customizing our own ride with our own two hands and some fierce skills is our personal dream. The fact that some high school kids got to do that very thing makes us both happy and a bit chapped around the ass. Five high schools have taken advantage of SEMA’s High…

By Amos Kwon
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Otis Lets You Invest in a Portion of Famous Art, Sneakers and Collectibles

While we certainly consider ourselves aficionados and even collectors of contemporary art, music albums and sneakers, we're still regular guys that don't have the kind of coin to outright own pieces like KAWS artwork and Nike Air Mags. Or do we? With the new "alternative investment app" Otis, it's a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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