Another Father’s Day, another tie headed for the silky graveyard of roughly 112 others he’s accumulated across birthdays, holidays, and every other gift-giving occasion imaginable. Fathers are notoriously difficult to shop for – not because they wouldn’t appreciate another navy-and-cream stripe, but because they’re specific. Painfully, wonderfully specific.
Some dads spend their weekends chasing lower golf scores (a custom ball pouch should bode nicely). Others have devoted decades to explaining the plot of Top Gun (1986) to people who already understand it (a valet tray for their aviators feels only fair). Some never met a gadget they didn’t like (nothing like an indoor hydroponic garden). Others can turn a casual dinner conversation into a TED Talk on Civil War history, national parks, or the peculiar fact that Death Valley’s Badwater Basin sits 282 feet below sea level while Mount Whitney rises 14,505 feet above it in the very same state (perhaps a set of Eames playing cards to keep that brain occupied).
They're one of a kind – so why are we still shopping as though they’re the same person? Ahead, 28 things he’ll actually use this year.
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