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This week's Critical Shopper column takes Jon Caramanica to Leisure Life NYC, a Clinton Hill shop that "offers a savvy read on what a mature hip-hop aficionado would want to wear in middle age." This seems best exemplified by the Leisure Life house line, which features a varsity jacket with goatskin armbands, "the exact right sort of varsity jacket to wear to let everyone else wearing a varsity jacket know that you see right through them." [NYT]