For Him

Buying for men isn’t difficult. It’s just made out to be. Hence the gift guides filled with novelty socks, branded bottle openers and everything else that gets tossed into a drawer for eternity before being quietly binned. Buying for him has never felt so low stakes to us, so we didn’t make it that way. These are gifts we chose because they’re truly worth giving. Not ‘gift-worthy’ in some halfway acceptable present sense of the word. Things that are worth giving because he’s going to use it, think about it, realise that somebody was paying attention to what he likes. That was our bar. Lots of products didn’t make the cut. We picked up a lot of things we know you’ll see elsewhere and put them right back down. Instead we hunted down gifts that actually fix, involve, or feel heavy enough to mean something. A gift thatsats in his kitchen and earns its place every week. We did our best to look for things that feel considered without crossing over to try-hard territory. Try-hard isn’t funny. It’s a gift-buying sin. Some of these gifts are for someone who’s easy to buy for and just deserves a really great thing instead of something that’s merely fine. Some are for someone who has everything – an exaggeration, they can’t have everything but someone will react whenever you give them the right thing. Some are for that person you haven’t had loads of takeaway coffee with yet and the gift has to speak volumes about who you are. The edit is small because we don’t want it to be huge. If we believe in something, it’s in here. We don’t want to toss products in just to make sure you can find something for every possible occasion. If you’re reading this wondering which ones to get them, that’s great. It means they’re all worthy of buying and you get to decide which ones are worthy enough for them. We did the hard work already.

Aftershave

When buying aftershave as a gift nine times out of ten you are doing it blindly. You know he wears something. You smelled it on him once in an elevator or over dinner. Now you are standing in Boots being bombarded by brand reps with zero clue what you are supposed to like. We’ve been there, it sucks. So we decided to flip it on its head. Rather than think of aftershave as just another fragrance category we approached it how you would any good gift; What does this say about him? Something that just smells nice is easy. You…

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Best Man

Being asked to be best man is epic. It’s also terrifying. You’re being trusted above anyone else by the groom. It’s an honour and a responsibility. Your gift to him should say something meaningful. That goes beyond ‘thanks for letting me come on the stag.’ You know what this friendship means. Your gift should reflect that. Wedding gift GuidesBest man giftsWedding presentsBuying GuideBudget Best Man GiftsHigh END Best Man GiftsIt should say ‘I know what this is and I want to commemorate it.’ The problem is that best man gifts are rubbish. Blobby engraved pens. Generic keyrings. Cufflinks in nondescript…

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Boyfriend

Buying your boyfriend something should be easier than it is. Don’t get us wrong, he isn’t hard to buy for, it’s just everything is so… obvious. Socks? A beer related gift set? Some novelty whatever that will sit in a drawer after a week. We’ve all done it and we’ve all handed over that something and watched it land with a dull thud, politely appreciated and instantly forgotten. > That’s why we took a different route with this gift guide. We asked ourselves what we’d want if someone was going out of their way to prove that they actually knew…

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Brother

Brothers are hard. We think that’s because they exist in this weird limbo territory. Tight enough that you feel stupid buying something vague just ’cause you spent time with them. But not usually brainy enough that you spend your time together pouring over the items on each other’s wishlists. You know them better than most people. But for some reason every birthday and Christmas comes around and you’re met with the same dilemma once again. We built this gift collection because we were bored of falling back on whiskies and novelty socks. Don’t get us wrong, we love a good…

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Cufflinks

There is a quiet satisfaction in doing cufflinks right. Small enough to be ignored but important enough that the right pair transform the feel of a shirt as much as the look, we spend a lot of time thinking about them. Probably too much. A poorly chosen pair of cufflinks is a small tragedy; a well chosen pair are among the most considered gifts you can buy for the man who has everything he needs. Wedding gifts and milestone birthdays sort of write themselves. Congratulations on the new job. Thank fuck for retiring. There’s someone, though. An acquaintance or better…

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Dad

Buying for Dad is one of the more quietly frustrating exercises when it comes to gifts. It’s not that he’s hard to love. Your dad’s just told you he doesn’t want anything for years and believed himself. At least a little bit. He already has everything he needs. Usually he bought it himself, decades ago, and sure as hell isn’t going to rush to replace it. Throw enough computing power at sniffing through Amazon and you’ll come up with something himatically appropriate eventually but odds are it’ll just be thanked warmly and buried in a drawer. Here we’ve tried to…

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Father's Day

Father’s Day has a bit of an image problem. And we don’t mean that fathers are difficult to buy gifts for. We mean that, when most people remember Father’s Day is coming up, that’s pretty much where their brains stop. June rolls around and they head to the same aisle as everyone else and load up on tin filled with baking stuff they’ll never use, novelty socks, and bad poetry magnetized to a mug that promises to call them the best world champion at something they’ve never once claimed to be. We find all of that sort of embarrassing, to…

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Grandad

Finding the right gift for grandad is trickier than it seems. He’s probably had enough years on this earth to already own any given object, he’ll tell you that he doesn’t want anything and he genuinely means it in a way that nobody else does. He’s also the one person who will really notice if you’ve put some consideration into it. Those three things combine to make a lot of people reach for socks or a tin of biscuits and we get the thinking, but he deserves something better than that. We built this shop because we’re over seeing grandads…

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Hip Flasks

There’s something quietly excellent about a well made hip flask. We’re not talking novelty ones shaped like a guitar. We mean proper flasks. Ones with substance to them. Ones that mean something when you hand them over. These are the ones we’ve curated here. The occasion is usually the same. The best man who already has cufflinks. The dad who buys himself whatever he wants. The friend who drinks good whisky and would immediately know the difference between something you’ve put thought into and something you grabbed from the shelves. The hip flask fits here perfectly. It’s useful but not…

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Husband

Buying for your husband is harder than most people like to admit. You know him better than anyone else in the world and somehow that makes picking something perfect more difficult, not easier. You know him too well to risk spending too little time or money. He’ll accept whatever you give him and smile and say it’s what he wanted. It’s your knowledge of his that will let you know how little you wanted him to want it. Each category in our shop has been curated with care, but Husband is especially close to our hearts. Gifts for men tend…

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Man Cave

Every man has a place that is his own little sanctuary; his corner of the house that he retreats to without apology and often doesn’t come out from. Maybe it’s a garage with a dartboard and a beer fridge. Maybe it’s an extra room with a projector screen and shelves upon shelves of nerd treasures. It doesn’t matter where it is, it matters that it is and that he’s made it feel like somewhere you’d want to spend time. Buying gifts for that place is one of our favourite kinds. Gifts for man caves and similar places don’t suffer from…

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Shaving Kits

Most men spend decades shaving with whatever razor came with their loyalty card and some gel that smells like a swimming pool. It works. Ok, it works. But working fine and being good are two different things. And the difference between shaving feeling like a chore you do every day and something that takes thirty seconds longer but feels vastly better is a good shaving kit that someone has actually spent some time thinking about. That’s the gap we wanted to fill when we put this together. We’ve only included stuff here that we’d fully gift to somebody. We don’t…

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Son

Buying for your son should be easy. It’s one of those things that you should be able to crack straight out of the park, but for some reason never is. It’s simple when they’re little. It’s stressful when they’re teens. It’s existential when they’re adults with opinions and lives of their own. You stand there sweating in the middle of the shops wondering when that happened and whether he’d technically accept a gift card. He would. We have confirmed as much. That’s why we put this together. We get it, we know how tricky it can be that point between…

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Tie Clips

Most men that wear a tie have one clip. Maybe zero. Either given at some point or picked without trying half a dozen. The space between what most men have and what a truly well dressed man has is where this edit fits. Tie clips are detail that people understand on a subconscious level. Get it right and your whole outfit feels anchored. Lose it and your look feels off in a way no one can quite identify. This collection was built with one man in mind. Often. The man that cares how he looks but doesn't do jewellery. The…

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Uncle

Uncles are an odd little bunch. Weirdly wonderful, collecting people that don’t fall into the normal corners of a family tree. They’re not parents, so there’s none of that pressure. They aren’t strangers, so there’s none of that oddness. The best of them slip you twenty bucks when they come around at Christmas, take your side during arguments they really shouldn’t be taking sides in, and they actually have opinions on things nobody else in your family cares about. They are specific people though. Truly, deeply specific people and that’s what makes buying for them wonderful, and really, truly difficult.…

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