Holiday Gift Guide 2013: A Little Something for Everyone In Your Life
Some people can’t be categorized, you know? They like off-beat, one-of-a-kind things that no one else has. Well, luckily, we’re in Brooklyn, and so there’s lots of stuff just like that.
is this 70s textile art from Richard Sweet? So great! It (along with lots of other great stuff) is available at You & Yours Fine Vintage, located in the shops at 240 Kent.
LL Bean Hudson Coat: $250 This vintage men’s coat is the kind of perfect, one-of-a-kind find that the fashion-savvy, hard-to-please man in your life will love. Plus, it’s lined with red shearling. RED SHEARLING!MAHPs Vintage; 110A Nassau Avenue, Greenpoint
used to do…well, anything really. Hold files! Hold receipts! Hold your iPhone! Make you look like you have your shit together even if you literally have shit in them! Except, no. Don’t literally do that. They’re too beautiful. Use them to hold your iPhone.
Caron Callahan at the Wythe Hotel;
80 Wythe Avenue
Modern Key Necklace available at Article&: $92 Key necklaces can feel cliche, but this one is great because it’s not some scrolling, antique-looking thing, but instead looks like something a person could actually use. Don’t use it! But appreciate that it’s different, and give it to someone who appreciates modernity and cool ass keys.
So, who wouldn’t want to smell like a burnt up barbershop from a hundred-years ago? This off-
beat cologne by Brooklyn-based D.S. & Durga is
a great gift that also serves as a reminder of how perversity and destruction go hand-in-hand with beauty.
Pocket Man Friend: $11 Sometimes people are lonely and need someone to talk to. Enter the Pocket Man Friend. This is an important gift to get someone, because the last people to but it for themselves are the ones who really need it the most.
of things. But maybe Boy Bands are more their speed? Or Mad Men? Or even
Canadian Wildlife? Well, no worries because this Etsy shop has you covered.
