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Lord of the Springs

What You’ll Wear While Spring Is Happening

It’s ending. Our long national nightmare of a winter is finally almost over. In its place: budding flowers, baby birds and white canvas shoes from Japan. Now here’s everything else you’ll want on your person this holiday season. That’s right, new holiday.

THE SHOES

Look, It’s the First Sneakers of Spring

What: A pair of hand-sewn, white canvas high-tops with rubber soles that have undergone the process of “ka-ryu.” Which is a fancy Japanese way of saying they were fired in a giant industrial oven to get extra soft and flexible.
Why: No more boots. Ever.

THE SHIRT

A Shirt with a Great Many Anchors on It

What: A slim-fitting button-down bedecked with hand-drawn anchors of various shapes and sizes. You value diversity in your shirt anchors.
Why: There’s going to be an early weekend on the Cape. And when that weekend comes, you’ll need to be wearing nautical references on your person.

THE RAINCOAT

When Adidas Met Barbour

What: A no-nonsense, water-repelling love child of Adidas and Barbour, featuring a long body coated with eight-ounce beeswax, leather trimmings and a detachable hood.
Why: Lest we forget, this is still New England. There will be cold snaps. And you will defeat them. With this. Goodbye.

THE BASEBALL JACKET

Spring Doesn’t Exist Without This

What: A cotton-blend baseball jacket with a plaid lining and interior pockets. Interior pockets: the trap doors of the jacket world.
Why: It’s red and white. Which reminds us of a certain team that will soon be swinging bats around. And that team is not the Philadelphia Phillies.

THE SUNGLASSES

“I Like These Sunglasses” —Your Face

What: Handmade, polarized sunglasses in a shade that’s called “Brown Havana” but may as well be called “I’m Sitting on a Patio and Yes I Will Have Another.”
Why: Remember the sun? Well, it’s back. And you still can’t look at it directly.