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How to Size Workwear So You Can Move in It

Four moves in the fitting room tell you more than the tag does, and one of them will cost you a shirt.

GuideCity StyleTobias ReedSep 23, 20265 min

Dress Once for the Camera and the Conference Room

A 2 p.m. video call and a 4 p.m. client meeting want different things from your shirt. One outfit can do both if you choose right.

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GuideFitnessCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

You don't need an immune booster, you need a bedtime

Three colds a winter isn't bad luck. It's sleep debt, a kid in daycare, and forty dollars a month of supplements doing nothing.

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Country Style6 min read

How to buy a cowboy hat, crease it right and wear it right

Measure your head, pick a crease you can live with for ten years, and learn the handful of rules that separate a hat from a costume.

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GuideStyleDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

Build your fall outfits around the layer you take off at noon

A 38-degree morning and a 70-degree afternoon are one outfit, not two. Start with what you'll be standing in at lunch and add backward from there.

GuideFitnessCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

The Achilles warning signs men over thirty-five keep missing

It stiffens up in the morning, loosens by noon, and you forget about it. That pattern is the tendon asking for help before it stops asking.

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GuideCity StyleTobias ReedSep 23, 20265 min

Theater Nights and Gallery Openings Need Different Clothes

One room keeps you seated in the dark for two hours. The other keeps you standing on concrete with a glass in your hand. Dress for the right one.

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Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

GuideStyleDean ShawSep 23, 20265 min

Stop Dressing Like the Year You Peaked

Boot-cut jeans are a date stamp. At fifty-five, authority comes from fit, restraint and about four garments you probably don't own yet.

GuideFitnessCal BrennanSep 23, 20265 min

Your leg is screaming but the problem is in your back

Sciatica isn't a hamstring, a cramp or a bad hip. Here's how to tell, what to stop doing this week, and the signs that mean go now.

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Plan a cook for eight people

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GuideCity StyleTobias ReedSep 23, 20266 min

Bike to work and still walk in looking pressed

Ride slower, pack smarter, and keep half your wardrobe at the office. The rumpled part of bike commuting is fixable.

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GuideStyleDean ShawSep 23, 20265 min

Chelsea, chukka or work boot, and what each one goes with

Your pant hem decides which boot you can wear, and most men get that order backwards. Start with a tape measure.

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GuideFitnessCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

Glaucoma steals your side vision and you won't notice

It takes the edges first, both eyes cover for each other, and the damage doesn't come back. The exam that catches it takes under an hour.

GuideCity StyleTobias ReedSep 23, 20266 min

Wear a Trench Coat Without Looking Like a Detective

The coat isn't the problem. The length, the belt buckle and whatever you've got on underneath usually are.

Names.com — The name is the first thing you sell

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GuideStyleDean ShawSep 23, 20265 min

What to wear to the bid meeting when you work with your hands

The shirt that fits your shoulders strangles your neck. Fix that, fix the pants, and you can walk into any room straight off a job site.

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Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next two weeks.

Fitness6 min

Psoriasis isn't just skin deep and the treatments finally caught up

Men's Grooming5 min

What Your Face Stops Doing At Thirty, Fifty And Seventy

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Build me a 30-day training plan around two sessions a week

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GuideStyleDean ShawSep 23, 20267 min

Fold the knits, hang the wovens, and starve the moths

The sweater you lost to a pinhole was either clean when you put it away, or it wasn't. Almost everything else about storing clothes follows from that.

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Fitness5 min read

What your A1c actually measures and when it lies

One number covers three months of blood sugar, you can't cram for it, and a handful of common conditions make it read wrong.

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Where does your phone charge overnight?

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