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Remember being told to take off your hat indoors? My, how times have changed. According to Josh Reed of Gents, a lifestyle brand best known for its lux (and surprisingly affordable) baseball caps, that rule needs to be revisited. He proposes that men can wear caps with everything from suits to tuxedos. Of course, that doesn't give men the gold pass to grab any old hat from their closets -- there's an art to mastering the look. We sat down with Josh to talk about how to pull off the look, the most common cap-wearing mistakes men make and to learn more about Gents. Check it out! Continue Reading

Ever since I took the plunge and moved to Australia, I've had to deal with a lot of things, but nothing prepared me for the toughest of all: meeting girls in this city in the middle of nowhere, 2,500 kilometers away from the next big city. I am talking about Perth, the capital and largest city of Western Australia, a tiny dot next to a vast desert land right on the Indian Ocean. The original plan was to maintain a long-distance relationship, but after a few months and a couple of misunderstood Facebook likes, I was loveless and back on the market. Trouble was the game in Perth had new rules. Well, let me start with the basic problem: the...

You know those awesome late nights, when you meet some stranger at the bar and you get to chatting and together develop the best invention/website/TV show ever, that you're both totally going to collaborate on starting the next day, and then you never even follow up because you can't read his email off the beer-soaked napkin stuffed in your wallet?Well, that totally happened when Ken Grier, director of malts for Macallan Whisky, shared a few drams one night with Colin Baden, CEO of Oakley Design (as in the sunglasses). Ken thought Oakley could (and should) design a completely ...

Draught Dry Goods releases its collection for Spring/Summer '13 unveiling new bag additions and accessory pieces as well as a new piece of apparel. The apparel piece is a new Varsity Jacket in collaboration with Odd Fellow Co, a slim-fitting, water-resistant jacket that's made of 10oz Waxed Canvas and has a floral lining throughout. Other items of note is their cowhide backpack and leather sunglass cases which can also be embossed free of charge. Draught Dry Goods

Malted Madness is a celebration of beer. Largely, we've glorified suds through our favorite medium: bloodthirsty head-to-head competition. Now, though, we pay homage to the most foundational of beer's values... enjoyment. We asked our staff to remember the most memorable water, malt and hops they'd ever had and recorded their misty-eyed reminiscences. What we found -- unsurprisingly -- was that the true measure of beer is often when and where it's enjoyed, and who with. ...Read More »