UNIFORM | Summer Weekends

Memorial Day weekend is a common sartorial indicator of when to break out the summer colors (although we've always believed in white all year round!), but it's also around the time when the aroma of charcoal BBQs start to fill your day and the sun shines longer into the night. Here are a few picks from The Reed to celebrate and gear up for the greatest season of the year.

Lifeguard Hat ($24); Armor Lux Passarele Fair Trade Marinere ($125); N'East Paper Lobster Notecard ($4.50); Joshu+Vela Key Hook ($35); Vintage Nantucket Beaded Souvenir Belt ($46); Chambray and Indigo Bandana ($65); Drawstring Camp Shorts ($125); Joshu+Vela Canvas Boat Tote ($265).

GEAR | Solid Denim by Mosevic

Have you ever liked a pair of jeans so much that you wanted to wear them on your face? No? Just me? OK, well, regardless of next level denim-face interactions, the technology being utilized by the UK brand Mosevic to make a hard solid from our beloved textile is pretty unreal (when you click here you get a visual of how layers of denim are infused with resin). They call it solid denim, and have spent the last four years perfecting the process. Right now they're raising funds on Kickstarter, but soon, hopefully this summer, they'll be putting denim on your face. Solid. 

MOMENT | Summer Road Trips

As part of an ongoing series on The Reed, we're creating travel guides for destinations all over the world. The first two to launch were a road trip from Boston to Mid-Coast Maine and an Escape to Santa Fe. The idea of the guides is to point out some of the most distinctive and unique spots that help define a place and let you get a real taste of something the destination has to offer, maybe that's an ice cream cone or a spiced hot chocolate, maybe it's a rug shop or the L.L. Bean HQ in Freeport.

The next two guides will launch in just over a week, but I wanted to see if any of you guys were planning road trips this summer or if you've gone somewhere over the summers that you just can't get enough of!

Along with the guides we produced American-made Jungmaven t-shirts ($39) that are super classic and super soft for each destination (New England and New Mexico). We wanted the shirts to be like your favorite summer camp shirt or college tee. Hope you guys enjoy 'em and we'll let you know when the next two travel guides drop!