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12/13/11

Truly Gifted
A Holiday Gift Guide for Yourself

Congratulations. You’ve been nobly buying gifts for a bunch of other people. How nice. You deserve a little something. A gift to yourself. Or maybe five.

A Very Hollywood Travel Kit

It happens all the time: you visit Hollywood’s swankiest bowling lounge for a gin and tonic, and you come home smelling great. Good news: the Spare Room proprietors helped create a canvas-and-leather grooming kit stocked with products like... Gin Tonic bath salts. You’ll have to cut your own lime.

411:: $130, available at The Motley

An Old-Fashioned iPad Case

To bring a bit of pioneer spirit to the boardroom, wrap your iPad in this classic-looking lace-up from General Quarters, made with oil-tanned leather, copper rivets and burnished edges. Sometimes a quarterly status meeting just needs more of a Back to the Future Part III vibe.

411:: $125, available at General Quarters, 153 S La Brea Ave, 323-937-5391

Some Tasteful Holiday Nudity

You’ve been meaning to update your selection of coffee-table literature. Nothing too heavy. Just something like Treats!, a quarterly magazine filled with nice photos of beautiful (and naked) women. It’s important to stay current on matters like these.

411:: $80 annually, available at Treats!

Film Noir-ish Playing Cards

Over the holidays, you might find yourself destroying your uncles in poker. Do it with these dated-on-purpose black-and-white playing cards, which are meant to make your life look a little more like an LA noir film. BYO dame.

411:: $6.95, available at Dan & Dave

A Travel-Friendly Shoehorn

When traveling, it’s the little things that help you stay classy. Like these brightly colored Monocle shoehorns that come in a brightly colored leather case you can toss right into your luggage. Without worrying it will horn anything else in there.

411:: $78, available at Monocle

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