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The Watch That Proves Toughness Has Always Been a Kind of Elegance

G-SHOCK didn’t just evolve into refinement. It’s been quietly building toward it from the start.

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Bowl Season Gear by Nike
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Good, Better, Bezel: How G-SHOCK’s G-STEEL Keeps Toughening Up Beauty
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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

It's a Jordan Christmas miracle!

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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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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

It's a Jordan Christmas miracle!

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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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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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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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Proof’s Rover Pants Are Built for All Your Everyday Adventures

What if you took all the durability, technical performance and comfort of a work pant with a pigment dye that wears in like raw selvedge denim over time? Would that be enough to make you think twice about grabbing a pair of denim everyday? It's something you actually have to…

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Our 15 Favorite Items from the J. Crew Spring 2022 Collection

We are tantalizingly close to spring and with that comes the promise of some new clothes (if, like me, you finally took that bag of rags to Goodwill). J. Crew’s spring line-up provides a great template of basics to add to your existing wardrobe to freshen it up a bit…

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Nike’s Mountain Fly Low with GORE-TEX is Perfect for Spring 2022

Nike has unveiled a spring 2022 edition of its beloved ACG Mountain Fly Low. This latest release of the all-terrain sneaker features the addition of water-resistant GORE-TEX as the upper along with a wrap-around reflective hiking overlace. The React midsole, standard with the Mountain Fly Low, offers cushion and bounce…

By John A. Paradiso
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Victory Sportswear Speed Runner

The athletic sneaker's popularity ebbs and flows in modern menswear. This specific piece of footwear, halfway between an honest to god running shoe and a casual sneaker, has seen scores of designers attempt to make it cool through minimalist over-simplification or maximalist colorways. The Speed Runner from Victory Sportswear embodies…

By John A. Paradiso
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Sandgrain Studio Old Fashioned Poster

A stylish print, poster, or piece of art adds a touch of class to just about any room. And if you're looking to celebrate the world of mixology, Sandgrain Studio has you covered with a variety of classic cocktail posters. Each poster has a modernist, geometric rending of one of…

By John A. Paradiso
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