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by Megan Baldwin

Men, you might just want to brace yourselves. Or as the Financial Times has it, you probably already have. Yes lads, according to that bastion of all things buttoned up and Tag wearing, the latest accessories trend to hit the mannery market: Bracelets–in all their beaded, bangled and charmed glory. “Not to be confused with the charity wristband fad started by Lance Armstrong’s Livestrong campaign in 2004,” the paper reports–pointing to a surge in popularity among well-togged hommes, “these accessories are instead an update of the backpacker souvenirs and friendship bracelets of adolescence.”

And by update, they mean a more expensive version designed to represent an man’s inner irreverence as tokens of the life that happens outside of one’s Gucci suit and tie. “I used to be a sailor, and each year my mother would give me a red bracelet for luck......

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