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5 Best Corduroy Pieces For Men: Fall/Winter 2026

5 Best Corduroy Pieces For Men: Fall/Winter 2026

Published by Akaay Pradhan

Texture matters. Now more than ever. Alongside understanding layering and how to deploy colour effectively, learning to use texture to your advantage is a foundational cold-weather dressing skill. Mastering it will take your autumn and winter outfits to the next level, enabling you to create depth and visual interest without relying solely on patterns or bright hues. And whether you’re a novice or a seasoned pro, corduroy is one of the best fabrics to know. Fuzzy, three-dimensional and fun, this warming material has shaken off the undeserved connotations of stuffiness that plagued it for years and pulled up a seat at the cool kids’ table. The proliferation of roomier fits, heritage references and renewed enthusiasm for pieces once considered uncool or even nerdy has provided fertile ground for cord’s second coming, and we’re here for it. There are infinite ways to work some wales into your wardrobe, but we’d suggest starting with the garments below. From relaxed tailoring to autumnal layering essentials, these are the corduroy pieces to buy first. Unstructured Blazer Drake’s SIRPLUS Indigo …

7 Pieces To Get The Look

7 Pieces To Get The Look

Published by Akaay Pradhan

Italian men have a habit of making summer dressing look suspiciously easy. While the rest of us are negotiating sweat patches, awkward shorts and shirts that resemble collapsed tents by lunchtime, they appear to glide through the heat in soft tailoring, breathable fabrics and clothes that look better for being slightly rumpled. The secret is not some closely guarded Mediterranean gene. It is simply a better understanding of fabric, fit and restraint. Italian summer style is built around natural fibres, relaxed silhouettes and pieces smart enough for dinner but comfortable enough for everything that happens before it. You do not need a wardrobe full of clothes to replicate it. You need a handful of well-made staples that work together, age gracefully and can be worn in more than one setting. These are the seven worth owning. The Linen Shirt Nothing captures Italian summer dressing quite like a linen shirt. It is relaxed without being scruffy, elegant without feeling formal and breathable enough to remain useful once the temperature moves beyond reasonable. The key is avoiding …

Orcas smash dead sunfish into bite-sized pieces

Orcas smash dead sunfish into bite-sized pieces

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. Despite the bloody picture painted in the movie Jaws, the real king of the ocean is not the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias). It’s the orca whale (Orcinus orca). These skilled hunters stalk their prey in a variety of ways, from hydroplaning onto the sand to grab seals to corralling fish into big bait balls for a snack.  A group of orcas in the Gulf of California appear to have an additional tool in their hunting toolbox—and it was caught on camera. One whale holds down the dead body of a large sunfish, which can grow over 6 feet long and weigh over 4,000 pounds. The whale then lets go, before another orca rams into the sunfish carcass at a high speed. The …

10 High-Summer Pieces Every Man Needs In 2026

10 High-Summer Pieces Every Man Needs In 2026

Published by Akaay Pradhan

There comes a point every summer when getting dressed stops being about looking good and starts being about survival. The sun is out, the air is thick, and anything heavier than a linen shirt begins to feel like a personal attack. This is the moment when the right wardrobe really earns its keep. High-summer style is not about packing more. It is about choosing pieces that do more. Lightweight layers. Breathable fabrics. Swimwear that works beyond the pool. Tailoring that does not make you feel like you are being slowly roasted. The sort of clothes that take you from beach to bar, terrace to terminal, lunch to late-night drinks, without requiring three outfit changes and a hotel room meltdown. That is exactly the territory BOSS is exploring with its latest summer edit. Built around linen, relaxed tailoring, refined beachwear and sun-washed neutrals, it is a wardrobe for men who want summer dressing to feel easy but still look considered. These are the pieces to build it around. The Linen Overshirt A good summer layer sounds …

10 Pieces You Need To Get The Look

10 Pieces You Need To Get The Look

Published by Akaay Pradhan

So your mother was right all along: “Don’t throw it away because it will come back in fashion, eventually.” Thanks for the prescient advice, mum. Like a broken clock is correct twice a day, you could be waiting a long time for those flared tracksuit bottoms to become ‘sought-after’ once again, but that said, there are a number of nerdy garments that seem to get revived every other season. To be honest, the 10 items below never really go out of fashion for anyone other than trend hounds. They have their fashion moments thanks to a certain show or photoshoot, and then pow, they’re back in the industry’s consciousness for another season. The preppy aesthetic is rooted in the collegiate dress of the 1950s, so it’s easy to call it ‘geeky’, but really it’s a sportswear-influenced amalgamation of casualwear and relaxed tailoring – an equation that has defined menswear throughout the ages. So with that said, let’s look at the pieces that we’re nerding out over right now… The Sweater Vest Velasca LEMAIRE Jacquard-Knit Merino …

Grandson of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups inventor is in pieces over missing milk chocolate

Grandson of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups inventor is in pieces over missing milk chocolate

Published by Sam Flores

For the grandson of the inventor of the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, all it took was one bite of a Valentine’s Day Reese’s Mini Hearts to leave him, well, heartbroken. “It didn’t taste like milk chocolate,” Brad Reese told NBC News. “It tasted cheap.” Reese said he looked at the front of the package and saw the words “peanut butter,” but not the words “milk chocolate.” And when he flipped the bag over and read the list of ingredients he was, as he put it, “horrified.” Hershey’s, which makes the beloved butter cups and seasonal spin-offs like mini-hearts, had replaced the milk chocolate with a chocolate-flavored coating “that definitely was not chocolate,” according to Reese. Make Reese’s Great Again “For most of my life I ate at least one Reese’s Butter Cup per day, and sometimes something seasonal like a Reese’s heart or a Reese’s Christmas tree,” Reese, 70, said. “But this was inedible. I threw it in the garbage.” Then Reese, who is so enthralled with his grandfather’s sweet creation that he often ventures …

15 Best Smart-Casual Clothing Pieces All Men Need

15 Best Smart-Casual Clothing Pieces All Men Need

Published by Akaay Pradhan

‘Smart casual’ garments are a hard sell because they rarely come with bells and whistles. They are the clothes we often take for granted precisely because they are so versatile. They don’t grab the attention like a contemporary piece of fashion or a logo-rich, cachet-dripping luxury product. But maybe that’s their secret power. Because when the latest trend finds itself in the graveyard of hype, the classic smart-casual aesthetic continues to do its thing. These pieces are the glue that binds our wardrobe together, so if you ever catch yourself thinking, “I’ve got nothing to wear”, chances are you need to stock up on the following… Unstructured Blazer Velasca Velasca Carloforte wahts CORBYN Tech Stretch Travel Blazer SIRPLUS Blueberry Cotton Linen Blazer COS Relaxed Double-Breasted Wool-Blend Blazer The fully canvassed suit jacket still has a place in sartorial menswear, but for versatility and ease of wear, the unstructured blazer is king. This is especially true in the spring and summer months when tailoring becomes altogether more casual. Bereft of any internal structure, this tailored jacket boasts …

8 Workwear Clothing Pieces All Men Should Own In 2026

8 Workwear Clothing Pieces All Men Should Own In 2026

Published by Akaay Pradhan

If you don’t own any classic workwear staples, you’re missing out. These versatile, hardwearing, utility-inspired garments can do it all. They can be smart, adding a rough-and-ready edge to tailored clothing, or casual, naturally combining with streetwear and off-duty attire. We’re not, of course, talking about ‘work clothing’ you’d wear to the office. Rather, ‘workwear’ is a catch-all term which refers to functional garments that would have originally been worn for blue collar jobs – think factory work, mining, carpentry and other, manual occupations. Workwear is often made from denim or cotton twill for durability, features handy pockets and compartments for storing essentials, and comes in comfortable, relaxed fits so as not to restrict movement. All practical qualities that appeal in today’s non-stop world. Not only that, with many of the designs unchanged for generations, they’re among the most timeless menswear pieces around. In short, you need some. If you’re not sure where to begin, here are nine items you should consider. Work Boots Velasca &SONS The Drover Boot Black Velasca Pastissee Kleman Oxal Oak …

Chess isn’t fair—so rearrange the pieces

Chess isn’t fair—so rearrange the pieces

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The arrangement of the 32 pieces on a standard chess board has remained the same for centuries, but a forthcoming study suggests an overhaul is in order. Based on recent statistical calculations, the fairest and most balanced setup for both players can be found among the 960 possible starting positions popularized by former world champion Bobby Fischer over 30 years ago. What is Chess960? The standard rules of chess grant most people a lifetime of dynamic and challenging matches, but that’s not always the case for the world’s best players. To reach the top, grandmasters memorize mountains of opening strategies, midgame variations, and tactical endgame attacks that often result in predictable—even boring—showdowns.  It’s also well-known that playing as white offers at least a slight (but sometimes decisive) advantage during any given match. Amid decades of discussion and chess theory into the subject, the principal reason is simple: white goes first, and the first move often offers an extra bit of momentum …

Chess can be made fairer by rearranging the pieces

Chess can be made fairer by rearranging the pieces

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Chess can be improved by rearranging the positions of the starting pieces to produce a more difficult or fairer game, a physicist has found. A standard game of chess always starts with the pieces at the back of the board arranged with an element of symmetry. Starting from the outside, for both white and black, are pairs of rooks, knights and bishops, with a king and queen in the middle. But because this arrangement is fixed, top chess players can memorise the best moves to open a game of chess, which can lead to predictable and boring matches. In the 1990s, the late chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer proposed a variant of the game that reduced this reliance on memory. Fischer suggested effectively randomising the starting positions of the pieces at the back of the board – apart from basic rules dictating where the bishops, rooks and kings must be relative to each other – with both white and black pieces taking on the same random arrangement. This format, called Chess960 for the number of possible …