• The making of a traditional Alfred Dunhill briefcase [Just So on Vimeo]
• Celebrating great American photographer Walker Evans [Florence Griswold Museum] [Pictured]
• The world of LVC (who is a P+W client) is finally online [Levi's Vintage Clothing]
• Upon returning to earth the Apollo 11 astronauts had to go thru customs [Space.com via Coudal]
• Papa. [The William Brown Project]

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• Probably the best 160 second video history of a 160 year old company you will ever see. [Bally] [Pictured]
• An auction full of amazing pilot’s watches [Hodinkee]
• American Apparel makes 53,000,000 garments a year in L.A. [American Apparel Factory Tour]
• MN-based Duluth Pack drops a tasty looking bag exclusive to Barneys [Selectism]
• That shit cray. Nike is getting after the military boot thing. [SlamxHype]

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• Rosé watch continues with Alan Richman’s wine guide [GQ]
• A gentleman’s guide to London from your French friends at LV [Louis Vuitton] [Pictured]
• FujiFilm has another X series up its sleeve [FujiFilm]
• Mr. Guido Wongolini advocates for ACL’s “grown man jeans” [Most Exerent Brog]
• Houston’s TexMex scene just got El Real. [The New York Times]

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•  The world’s most badass hand-machined bottle opener [J.L. Lawson & Co.] [Pictured]
• Will Welch to street style: Drop dead. [GQ]
• Related debate: Has globalization ruined street style? [The New York Times]
• This is what all barber shops should be like. [The Standard Edition]
• Nothing is worse than showing up for this at 10:31am. [Covenger & Kester]

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• Esquire’s Nick Sullivan talks us through his “stance” [Junctioned] [Video pictured]
• The New Yorker proclaims Jay-Z and Kanye West “out of touch with the streets” [The New Yorker]
• Everything a man needs in a Tumblr #NSFW #Daywrecker [Cinabrio]
• Jay McInerney gives nod to Tavel, France, the “motherland of rosé” [The Wall Street Journal]
• Filson made a blaze orange canvas carrier for a Stanley thermos and it is awesome [Filson via Acquire]

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• Bill Owens captures ordinary people doing ordinary things. [San Jose Museum of Art] [Pictured]
• Tony and Pete from Tellason call out SF’s best spots. [Refinery29]
• If you haven’t checked out James Wilson’s visit to Stanley & Sons, please do so immediately. [Secret Forts]
• Don’t Mess with Texas Bespoke: The Journal profiles the Hamilton Shirt Co. [The Wall Street Journal]
• Public bathrobe wearing is nothing new (Brian Wilson, The Big Lebowski), but meet the world’s first sport-utility bathrobe [Winnifred Beach via Kickstarter]

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• Design, manufacture and installation of the Piccadilly Circus Coca-Cola sign c.1954 [Creative Review] [Pictured]
• Jack Kerouac’s On the Road has been released as a pretty amazing iPad app [iTMS via L.A. Times]
• Fun fact: Louis Vuitton owns two factories in California. [The Wall Street Journal]
• Bon Appétit has a little product round-up of coolers, which I will use only for beer [Bon Appétit]
• The perfect 1949 summer vacation to Canada’s Malibu Club [LIFE]

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• Tumblr has a #menswear tag and apparently I’m on the board. [Tumblr Menswear]
• I witnessed the hard work that goes into getting these photos. [STREETFSN]
• The next America’s Cup will have some pretty innovative TV coverage. [The New York Times]
• Speaking of Tumblrs, have you seen Evel Knievel’s? [House of Evel.]
• Humble and earnest with massive photos of U.S. made goods. [Simple Threads] [Pictured]

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• You can have every issue of Playboy dating back to 1953 on your iPad for $8 a month. I personally subscribe for the articles. [iPlayboy] [Likely NSFW]
• These folks do just about everything right. Much respect. [Schoolhouse Electric]
• Like a battle-hardened Native American JJJJound. #daywrecker [Them-Thangs]
• A week later and I no longer secretly hate Eric Yang for having an X100, as I now have my own. [The Material Review] [Pictured w/ friend]
• So so so good… a blog that is “for the ladies,” but I think it is just for me. [Tomboy Style]
• UPDATE (BONUS): Bergdorf Goodman has a Tumblr. The future is now. [The Bergdorf Goodman Swipe]

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• Gear Patrol co-founder Eric Yang got his hands on a Fujifilm X100 and I secretly hate him for it. [Gear Patrol] [Pictured]
• Fellow Clevelander Eric Kvatek found a congressman’s old Vietnam-era field jacket in a thrift store. [Dispatches]
• Foster Huntington started a new site that I would have named “My Favorite Stuff, Which When Neatly Laid Out in a Photo, Happens to Coincidentally Look Like A Less Violent Version of Everyday Carry but With Homeowners Insurance” [The Burning House]
• Things I recently learned: Valet has a new column and Sid Mashburn wears a Rolex Explorer to the beach. [Wants & Needs at Valet]
• American-looking (but actually foreign) college students entertaining themselves with nothing but a phone booth c.1959 [LIFE] [Thanks Andy]

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• E-tailers are using “editorial content that shepherds visitors through the corridors of male personal style.”  [The Wall Street Journal]
• Shameless plug for our Tumblr of material pursuits. [The Material Review] [Pictured]
• Valet gets in on the EDC action with pocket knife recommendations [Valet]
• Mark McNairy’s wife interviews him while he is trying to watch Dirty Harry. [House of McNairy]
• David Pogue reviews the Fujifilm x100…thereby making it even more elusive. [The New York Times]

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• Guy Trebay’s insiders guide to Milan. [The New York Times]
• Mesmerizing video of the making of a Marc Newson for Ikepod hourglass [Nowness]
• Images from the Civil War in 3D [LOC on Flickr] [Pictured]
• Blue jeans and a white button-down. Lunch with Natsumi from Lark [Sokokashiko]
• Calling cards are undergoing a bit of a revival. We like it. [The Wall Street Journal]

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