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This week, Jon Caramanica visits Garment District work wear shop Nepenthes New York, and though the items he favored are what men's Sartorialist images are made of, the real gem is Needles, the wackier line featured upstairs. Comprised of tie-dyed duds "for when Kings of Leon hit their acid phase", the multicolored shirts and jackets strike him as almost impossible to wear, until he finds out that Drake purchased one of the psychedelic pieces earlier that week. The design of choice? Tie-dyed sweat pants. Not impossible to wear at all, apparently. [NYT]

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