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Southern Hospitality at Its Best

Fashion week is in full swing here in New York. Besides drastically improving the ratio of tall beautiful women walking the streets, it also means a lot of long nights and days for our staff as we check out what’s to come from major men’s brands. First up on our list of events, Billy Reid’s [...]

Update: The FLOTV Ultimate Tailgate Tour Blog has launched! We’ve also received some great tailgating photos so keep ‘em coming (send to: [email protected]) and make sure to visit the Ultimate Tailgate Tour Blog to see if your submission gets posted in the coming days. Sure, watching a video of Bradley learning a cheer from the [...]

A Positive Spin on Excess Baggage

We had the opportunity to interview the founders of Billykirk back in 2009 and ever since we’ve been in love with their products. All of their leather inspired wares are made with a sense of craftsmanship that’s sadly all too rare in most men’s products today and that’s why we’ve never felt any remorse paying [...]

Tony Hawk Meets Martha Stewart

Attitude, irreverence and pushing the boundaries are almost synonymous with skate culture. So doesn’t creating furniture whose express purpose is to be skated on seem a bit like playing Pin the Tail on the Donkey sans blindfold? Created by Jurjen Semeijn for Dutch Design week, the Street Furniture exhibit was first showcased at Area Fifty [...]

Welcome... to Jurassic Park (queue song)

Well not quite Jurassic Park, but this beast is based on a Ford (not a clear roofed Explorer?). It will also certainly take some degree of effort to tame one’s self at the wheel of the Hennessey VelociRaptor APV, a supercharged 6.2 liter 575 horsepower homage to unnecessary engineering. In case you’re wondering the “APV” [...]

A Year Ago on Gear Patrol

Tennis, as Imagined by the Master of Prep

With the U.S.’s biggest tennis tournament headed towards a conclusion, here’s a friendly reminder to both tennis fans and prepsters that you don’t have to have tickets to Arthur Ash to pick up Ralph Lauren’s 2010 line of official U.S. Open apparel. Distinguished by bold color patterns and classic athletic cuts, every piece is unmistakably [...]

Bond Junior

So you’ll probably never channel Sean Connery’s Thunderball coolness, sporting a classic Rolex Submariner dive watch and driving an Aston Martin DB5 while causing Ursula Andress to swoon. But you can, at the very least, upgrade the timepiece on your wrist, from the run-of-the mill quartz watch (which is more than likely sitting in your [...]

Enough With the Fake Fleece

Sometime in the 1980s, clothing companies discovered that plastic fibers could be spun to look like wool fleece. This polyester fleece had many of the same properties as wool but lacked the itchiness of wool. The rest is history and we’ve endured (and enjoyed) thirty years of fluffy jackets, many in garish colors, that have [...]

Subtly Skater

Fall and winter may be prime boot season, but if you love the feel of sneakers then these new for 2010 Supra Belay Slip Ons ($65) should work for casual occasions. Thanks to their slim low-profile and lace detailing, they’ve got a noticeably different look from the majority of sneakers found on every mannequin you [...]

A Year Ago on Gear Patrol

Send Actual Telegrams -(Stop)- To Actual People -(Stop)-

In a day and age where emails and texts have become de facto communication methods, it’s nice to know that there are services that, well, take longer. Once you draft a message (no morse code required), Telegram Stop ($6) will send your recipient a telegram that looks and feels like the classic right down to [...]

The iPad's Storage Hungry Sidekick

Steve Jobs may believe the iPad is magical enough to replace a laptop for most users, but even as fond as we are of the device, there are still several glaring issues with it that need to be fixed. For example, just the other day we were debating how effective the iPad might be for [...]