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Summer days. These two words go together like beer and baseball, Nantucket and sailing, convertibles and the Beach Boys. Summer days are long, hot, sunny, perfect. They can also be humid, mosquito-filled and unbelievably broiling. There are ways, however, to keep your cool, to look like you own this whole summer thing. The key is cotton and linen. Lots of it. Cotton will keep you cool. Linen always looks fresh. Yes, linen gets wrinkled but really, that just gives it soul. We wouldn't recommend a linen shirt under a suit if you're in say, the legal or financial world. However,...
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Sure. They just completed four years of higher learning and now they are about to launch themselves into the big grown-up world but that doesn't mean the graduation gift has to be boring. If you have a graduate in your life and you're looking for the perfect, clever gift, try one these items below that will make them as grateful as the day they finished their last final exam. 1. A toolbox complete with tools. When I graduated from college, my grandmother presented me with my first toolbox. I thought it was kind of hokey but it's turned out to...
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George Clooney always looks good in photos. So do Michael Buble and Don Cheadle. These are men who know how to dress. Whether it's a pale blue linen shirt worn with a pair of khakis or a tuxedo, these men wear clothes with ease. It isn't that every piece of clothing is tailored to them. It's that they know how to dress. Somewhere along the line, a costume designer, a publicist or maybe a fashion conscious significant other taught them that when a shirt fits like it was made for you, your confidence goes up and you feel like a...
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It seems easy enough. You shop online or you're browsing in your favorite store and you find "The Shirt." It's just the pop of color you were looking for. You know the cut of this brand fits you like it was designed for you. You slip it on, you go to work, out to dinner and then you toss in the laundry, right? Wait, or do you dry clean it? There really is an art to caring for a shirt and we're about to make it easy to remember. Start by reading the care instructions. The designer of the item...
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Creamy white Gardenias with trailing cornflower blue Sweet Peas in silver Mint Julep tumblers. A reclaimed wooden sign with you and your beloved's name carved into it. An ivory gown with delicate silk buttons that falls perfectly, gently off your shoulders. You thought of everything that will make your day special, a day that will make you smile every time you glance at the photo of the two of you laughing together, backlit by the setting sun. It will be perfect. The girls will be in their pale blue silk dresses that will catch the breeze off the Bay and...