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The Cool Material 2025 Holiday Gift Guides

From style and home goods to EDC and food and drink, we rounded up the coolest gifts of the year.

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Looks Like a Teddy, Wears Like a Grizzly
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The Watch That Proves Toughness Has Always Been a Kind of Elegance
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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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How to Give the Gift of Pappy This Year (Even If You Can’t Get Your Hands on a Bottle)

You don’t need a rare hookup to gift a piece of bourbon history.

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Review: Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot – A Game-Changer for Foot Pain and Recovery
By Travis Haley
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The Best Gear for Life on the Trail, According to the Couple Who Wrote the Book on It
By Lola Méndez
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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

Pack your bags...

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How to Give the Gift of Pappy This Year (Even If You Can’t Get Your Hands on a Bottle)

You don’t need a rare hookup to gift a piece of bourbon history.

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Review: Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot – A Game-Changer for Foot Pain and Recovery

Check out our CM product review of the hottest product in wellness right now: the Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot. Spoiler alert -- it’s a gamechanger!

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The Best Gear for Life on the Trail, According to the Couple Who Wrote the Book on It

They've explored 10,000 miles together. Here are their essentials.

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Editors' Picks

A curated selection of our favorite gear

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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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Watches
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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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Bugatti W16 Mistral

Just when a Bugatti Veyron or Chiron aren't special or pricey enough for you, the W16 Mistral comes along. It's the last car to utilize Bugatti's side-by-side V8 engines (W16), and what a swan song it is. The W16 Mistral is actually an open-top roadster, and the styling cues are…

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The Race of Gentlemen

If you're a fan of America's hot rod scene, we have the book for you. The Race of Gentlemen celebrates the eponymous event (abbreviated to TROG) where bikers descend on Wildwood, New Jersey's beaches for races, parties, and overall good times. Assouline put together this stunning coffee table book with…

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Levi’s Vintage Clothing: Introducing Jazz-Inspired “Blue Daze”

When people think of the Jazz age, they tend to think of tailored suiting with interesting proportions. Levi's, inspired by this period, wanted to look behind the stage, so to speak, and design a collection of clothing that was inspired instead by what those musicians wore off-duty. The Levi's Vintage…

By Brett Braley
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31 Classic Horror Movies Every Guy Should See

Horror movies are weird in that they can be both good and bad simultaneously. Scares can be served up with or without a well-crafted plot or a bevy of brilliant acting. These days, horror movies lean on being able to look incredibly realistic. But movies that are just a decade…

By Nickolaus Hines
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7 Gins For People Who Think They Don’t Like Gin

Gin inspires drinkers to fall strongly into one of two camps: those who love the spirit in all its forms, and those who despite it. A lot of that has to do with the piney juniper flavors that define London dry gin and those that style themselves after that most…

By Nickolaus Hines
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