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hasan minhaj had a very strange year

Jacket ($4,595), shirt ($1,325), trousers ($1,645), and shoes ($875) by Dolce & Gabbana; sunglasses ($870) by Jacques Marie Mage; ring ($4,500) by Title of Work. Tank by Hanes; trousers by Loro Piana. Jacket and shirt by Gucci.
Jacket and trousers by Fendi Men’s; tank by Hanes; necklace ($3,950) by Bulgari.

STANDARD & STRANGE IS A STORE IN MANHATTAN THAT sells $95 Japanese T-shirts and $435 corduroys. It’s classic, straightforward menswear—stuff with substance and weight. The prices are high, but the shop’s motto is “Own fewer, better things.”

This is one of Hasan Minhaj’s favorite stores.

On a Thursday afternoon in August, after lunch at Wayan, a French-Indonesian restaurant whose menu Minhaj knows by heart, he has taken me

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