You haven't dropped the ball on Father's Day. (Yet.)

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Have you started receiving the barrage of "last day for Father's Day delivery!!!1!" emails, text messages, and targeted ads? Is it starting to make you break out in a mysterious anxiety rash? Yeah, me too. Dads are notoriously hard to shop for, and unless you've arrived at mid-June with a carefully saved notes app list of things your dad has mentioned wanting throughout the year (this is the best way, but not always feasible), you're probably knee-deep in the annual ritualistic hand-wringing about what to get him—and you're moments away from commissioning an ill-advised ID bracelet with your siblings' birth dates on it from Etsy. (Slowly step away from the "custom text" field, please.)

Sure, it's getting late in the game, but it's not too late. Here are some non-garbage things to get your dad, and all of them will arrive in time for Sunday lunch—plus, three things that won't, in case you want to get a jump on next year and never contemplate the monogram section of Etsy ever again.

1) YETI Rambler Vacuum-Insulated 64 oz. Pitcher, $80

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of YETI stuff. (I don't make the rules, I just report on them.) Dudes of all stripes, for whatever reason, are really into YETI. And when YETI recently introduced insulated pitchers in several colorways, it was a boon for all of those dudes. While it may not necessarily generate a Big Reaction on first glance, this is an eminently useful and somewhat elevated essential that sits squarely at the intersection of many Dad Interests. For instance: if your dad is a kitchen person, he will like this. If your dad is a camping person, he will like this. If your dad is a cocktail person? He will exclaim "hell yeah!" and immediately go comment on the Thirsty Whale's TikTok (or, let's be real, Instagram), weaving a character-count-straining epic about how thoughtful his kids are and how much he loves his new insulated pitcher and how it was able to keep his batched martinis cold for—"hand to god"—a week and a half (citation needed).

As an object to have around, this pitcher is great. But as a springboard to leave long, rambling comments on semi-famous internet personalities' posts? It's incredible. And really, that's the thing dads want most of all. (Remember, I work in social media, so I know.)

2) Comme Si Silk-Lined Twill Baseball Cap, $150
I know what you're thinking: "My dad is a guy's guy. He is never going to go for this." But y'know what? As much as masculinity is a prison that we must spend every day of our lives fighting to free our loved ones from...I think your dad actually would, in spite of himself, like this. Because dads are worried about a lot of things—the Roman Empire, whether you've changed the air filter in your car recently, microplastics—but amid all of that, they're also kind of worried about their hair. Even if their hair is fine! This handsome ball cap from Comme Si looks totally normal from the outside (and comes in several stately colors), but the silk lining is really good for their hair and scalp health—which is valuable, even if they will never admit to caring about such things. It's a self-care moment cleverly masquerading as streetwear. Go on, get it for your dad, and let me know how it goes. Oh, and pick up a set of boxers from their new Liberty of London collab for yourself, while you're at it—that's your summer pajama game, sorted. Note: Comme Si's shipping cutoff is tonight at midnight, so work quickly.

3) Manta Sleep Mask, $33
I'm not gonna say that all dads are big into napping, but I am going to say that many dads are big into napping. Manta Sleep has made it their slightly-obsessive mission to design a sleep mask that eliminates all the things people hate about sleep masks. The "eye cups" (a phrase I do not particularly enjoy, but nevertheless) have indentations that avoid that whole "my eyelashes are brushing the sleek mask and it's making me want to crawl out of my skin" phenomenon (just me? okay), and since they attach with velcro, they can be adjusted to any distance apart. (Nothing makes you feel like you are simply Built Wrong more than a mask without adjustable feature placement. Ask me how I know.) This is sort of the "entry level" version, but they also make a Manta Sleep PRO, which is optimized for side-sleepers and features cooling perforations around the eye cups, for dads who "run hot", which as we all know is a very common dad complaint. The Manta Sleep Pro does, in my opinion, look kind of stupid—the print is somewhere between Disgraced Mid-Eighties Workout Personality Tank Top and Airport Carpeting. But your dad will be asleep. He won't care. I own the silk version because I am—and this is true—bougie, and I can confirm that it is 100% blackout and very comfortable.

4) Craighill Desk Knife, $70 and Plinth, $40

I've been following Craighill probablyyyy since they began, or thereabouts, in 2015. As a design house, they're methodically moving through the everyday objects you probably touch and don't think about 25 times a week and redesigning them so they look, feel, and work better. They're interested in material and form. And since they're sort of gadgetry-adjacent, they're an especially good place to look for Dad Gifts. The Craighill Desk Knife is a multipurpose tool that's a great replacement for that unsightly Home Depot boxcutter he insists on wielding with abandon, and when paired with the accompanying cast concrete plinth, it becomes a sort of brutalist objet d'art for dad's deskscape, as well. People are going to ask him about it, and when they do, they're going to get a whole spiel about Japanese-inspired design and the lost art of letter opening. Your name will not come up, by the way.

5) ROVERLUND Airline-Compliant Pet Carrier & Leash, $175

If you have ever suspected your dad loves the family dog more than you, this is for you. ROVERLUND's airline-compliant carriers look more like rugged backpacking accessories than pet accoutrements, which is what I find appealing about them. Sure, the combination of camo and Duodess (I am told this is the trade name for the pattern on rock climbing rope. If this isn't right, please leave me a comment so I can stop sounding like an idiot!) is very...tactical-feeling, which might not be the right street style vibe for every dad. But it is definitely cooler than the random carrier he picked up at Petco a decade ago, and that's the kind of gifting upgrade I'm here to deliver. Note: Only the black-on-black option will arrive by Father's Day, so proceed with caution when switching between colorways.

And now, a couple things that will not arrive by Father's Day 2025, but would be smart to order now anyway so that you don't find yourself in this same situation next year. (We live, we learn, right?)

1) American Music Furniture "Hyla" Black Ash Guitar Wall Hanger, $175

Before discovering this beautiful handmade leather, brass and black ash wall mount, I had assumed that all guitar storage was divided into two camps: things that look nice as display but make it inconvenient to actually pick up and play your guitar, and things that look kind of utilitarian but make it easy to actually pick up and play your guitar. But just look at this thing. The brilliant swiveling mount makes it so it can accommodate both acoustic and electric guitars at a moment's notice, and since it's literally just using gravity, it's really easy to grab your axe when a spontaneous jam sesh strikes. (I'm trying to use dad lingo.) I own one of these and I love it. It's really stunning. These are made-to-order, so you'll want to put in your request reasonably ahead of your gifting occasion.

2) Things By Dan Piston Blade Pen, $76
This is, to put it mildly, a really cool thing for design-y dads. These brass ink pens are handcrafted one-by-one in the UK by (presumably) some guy named Dan, and the range of strokes you can create with them is truly something—wide, sculptural swaths of color, or thin, precise lines, depending on how you turn the nib this way and that. And yes, this is a true ink pen—the "piston" part of the name refers to a suction mechanism through which ink (like, yes, from a bottle or well) is sucked up into the body of the pen. (He explains it better here.) It's sort of primitively simple (one piece of brass, a hollow tube) and unbelievably refined. If your dad is into art, architecture, calligraphy, sketching, or just generally taking an edible and doodling for a couple of hours on a Sunday, he'll probably get a real kick out of this. Again, since they're made one-by-one, you should order now—especially since international shipping can cause delays up to sixty days due to customs and (~ gestures broadly at everything ~).

3) Sabahs, $210
Allow me to take you back in time a moment, if you will, to the summer of 2013. It was a magical time to be in New York: Vampire Weekend had just put out Modern Vampires of the City, and so for a brief period, every hip alternative ice cream purveyor that would normally be blasting "Horchata" was instead blasting "Diane Young". The digital landscape was crowded with newly launched apps that would tell you about cool and under-the-radar happenings across the boroughs—Inside Hook, if I remember correctly, started as a sort of Groupon-style deal aggregator app that also had in its functionality a "mustache camera," which is exactly what it sounds like: a camera function that superimposes a cartoon-style handlebar mustache on anything you photograph. (I have a very strong memory of this, but if it isn't right, please leave me a comment so I can stop sounding like an idiot!) There were so many questions during that time: why were we so culturally obsessed with mustaches? Why did an app whose sole purpose was to tell me and other broke recent grads where to get half-priced margaritas in midtown need to have a mustache camera? Nobody could answer these questions then, and nobody can answer them now.

BUT. One thing about that summer that I have never needed to question is why, when I learned about it through the aforementioned app, I braved the radiating pavement and omnipresent "hot garbage" smell on a weekend to go to some guy's house that he had rejiggered into a sort of popup storeroom to try on Sabahs. Sabahs, for the uninitiated, are wildly versatile, very comfortable slip-on shoes from Turkey. At the time, you could only get them by sending a vaguely illicit-feeling request to "The Sabah Dealer" (hi, Mickey!) via email—a sort of speakeasy-adjacent schtick that was also very Of That Era. Today, you can get them in stores in a handful of hip cities, including London, which is where I finally caved and bought mine in a multi-day-photoshoot-induced haze of blisters and panic.

Okay. Enough about me and my hero's journey to fulfill the dreams of my broke younger self. Here's all you really need to know: Sabahs, and their backless cousins, Babas, are an almost universally appealing gift if you know your recipient's shoe size. Their ease and lack of "break-in time" accommodates even the most particular giftee. They come in tons of colors, and even some special-edition patterns and weaves (I'm seriously considering adding these to my collection). The quality is such that they hold up to my generally unrelenting promenade through any number of cities both domestic and international. (Seriously, I tend to destroy shoes.) And they're ideal for dressing up or down, especially if you are a dude, which chances are, your dad is.

Sabahs usually take about a week to arrive if they're in-stock and ready to ship. But picking them out is quite fun, too, so a gift card might not feel like a cop-out in this case. Better still: if you and your dad are located in New York, Austin or London, make a day of it and go pick them out together. Doesn't that sound nice? I think it does. It doesn't even feel like you forgot Father's Day until today.

Happy gifting!

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