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Trends don't move so fast when you're a real one

Plus a 'xclusie early look at a hot drop, slept-on basics, fun gangster movies & more

Apr 09, 2026
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In today’s sletter:

  • A Slapper Swarm full of banger striped springtime tees for the fellas & ladies alike

  • Sick deep-cut cotton basics that we would call “affordable” if that wasn’t a term that’s been so debased it now implies lame s--t, which we would of course never recommend

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  • Two excellent gangster-movie recommendations to watch this weekend, one from the 1980, one from the 2000, courtesy of Spyfriend Patrick Radden Keefe

Let’s get to it —

People love to talk about how “trends move at lightning speeds,” and while this is in a certain objective sense true, how true is it when you are a real one?

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