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What to Wear: A Weekend Away With Your Girl

By Ann Binlot Published August 6, 2021

It’s still a relatively slow time of the year, and you’re tired of hanging out at your apartment during the weekends — so why not plan a romantic getaway with the special woman in your life? Assuming the place you’re going to is a cabin in the woods and not a beachside resort, we say pack something comfortable, yet put together enough that your girlfriend will want to you know, hang out with you all weekend, and stuff it all into a nice weekender bag. Then you can just concentrate on the fun stuff.

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Ann Binlot is a New York-based freelance writer who contributes to publications like The Economist, Wallpaper*, Monocle…

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Cold weather game day outfits: What to wear to a football game when it’s freezing

These cold weather game day outfits will keep you warm all football season

A group of tailgaters enjoying the party.

As the summer begins to fade away into fall, we start getting hyped for the baseball playoffs and the start of the college football and NFL seasons. While you may be excited to watch your favorite teams in person, tailgating with friends and screaming at the referees, the weather doesn't always cooperate. Just a few weeks into the season, some stadiums experience downright frigid fall weather and only get colder as the winter settles in. By halfway through the season, fans in many stadiums are battling icy conditions and struggling to stay warm for the whole game. That is why ensuring you have only the best and most effective cold-weather game-day outfits is important.

Here is the trick to nailing the right outfit: mastering the art of layering. While you will be extremely cold sometimes, you are around upwards of 50,000 people, and the temps could elevate with all that body heat. Therefore, once you get the base layer set up with the all-powerful henley and jeans, it is on to the outer layer. Here is what you should be wearing at the stadium this fall.
Essential cold-weather game-day clothing
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What are dad jeans and should they be in your denim rotation?

Trendy dad or out of date jeans?

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Here we are. We've come full circle. Sit down kids, gather around the fire, and let me tell you a tale of yesteryear. The year was 1999. I know, ancient times are important. We in high school didn't have cell phones, mostly. We wrote notes back and forth in class. We walked home from school so we had time to talk to our friends. We knew how to get to places in town and there was no Google Maps. More importantly, Christina Aguilera came out of nowhere, Napster threatened to destroy the music industry, and Keanu Reeves was a relative unknown about to learn kung-fu from a computer. We also wore some awesome denim called dad jeans. What are dad jeans, you ask? well, let me take you back.
What are dad jeans?

The new dad jeans fad is inspired by the men's denim worn by the fathers of millennials and Gen Z back in the early aughts when The Sopranos was a must-watch, iPods were the size of compact cars, and brick-and-mortar stores were the only place to buy clothing.

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Now you can wear your favorite head coach’s jacket

Pick up a HOMAGE x Starter throwback

homage x starter people wearing coach jackets

If you are a child of the 90s, you don't need to be introduced to the name Starter. We all remember coveting our friend's jackets when they walked into the school wearing the Starter jacket of our favorite team. There is a list of iconic Starter jackets, namely the teal colorway for the Charlotte Hornets. You didn't even have to be a fan of Mugsy Bogues or Charles Johnson (Grandmama notwithstanding, obviously) to rock one of those. Every Christmas, kids everywhere flocked to see if they were lucky enough to land a coat with a zipper featuring the S and star logo. Now, vintage recreation expert HOMAGE has teamed up with Starter to bring you a new line of coach-inspired NFL jackets for your pleasure.
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There are seven jackets in this collection at the moment. The Kansas City Chiefs, because you have to have something for the Swifties, right? The Dallas Cowboys because it is America's team, or at least it used to be when Emmit Smith was there. The San Francisco 49ers because we all miss Joe Montana. The Philadelphia Eagles because something has to make Dallas fans angry every year. The Cincinnati Bengals because you need to have the color orange in there somewhere. The Miami Dolphins because the Southeast needs to be represented. And the Cleveland Browns because you have to be reminded there are two teams in Ohio. All jokes aside, these are some of the most storied and legendary teams in the NFL, and now you get the opportunity to wear the same jackets as their legendary head coaches did on the sidelines. Whether you are a fan of these teams or not, there is something for every sports fan to love with HOMAGE's throwbacks.
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