Gear

What to buy, what to skip, and what the cheaper one actually costs you.

The BRO Gear GuideBuy once, fix it, pass it down: a cost-per-use calculator, a warranty decoder and a repairability checklist.Judge it before you buy

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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.

GuideStyleDean Shaw23 Sept 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 Brennan23 Sept 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.

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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.

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GuideStyleDean Shaw23 Sept 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.

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

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

The plaques are the visible part. The joint damage, the fatigue and the heart risk are what nobody warns you about at the walk-in clinic.

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GuideGroomingDean Shaw23 Sept 20265 min

What Your Face Stops Doing At Thirty, Fifty And Seventy

Oil output drops, skin thins, hair turns wiry. Three short routines that keep up without adding a shelf of bottles.

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Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

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

GuideStyleDean Shaw23 Sept 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.

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

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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Give me something to do with my kids this weekend

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GuideGroomingDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

Stop Pulling Your Shoulders Back, It Never Holds

Good posture collapses by 9:15 because you're holding a pose. Four minutes in the morning and one cue you can actually carry all day.

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GuideStyleDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

The clothes worth buying in your twenties, in the right order

Your body's still moving, your budget's thin, and the trend cycle is loud. Buy for your calendar, fix the fit, and the rest sorts itself out.

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GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Long-lived people don't work out, they just never stop moving

The shepherds and gardeners outliving the rest of us never did a single bench press. What they do instead fits inside a Tuesday with a job and two kids.