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Get ready for April showers and spring cleaning.
Aigle Wellingtons
Rediscover the joys of splashing through April’s muddy puddles in these French boots, a “Parisian rainy-day staple.”
$109, aigleboots.com
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Over Our Heads Umbrella
When the rains hit, take shelter under a bespoke umbrella. Artist Lauren Briere hand-paints whimsical, customizable designs on the undersides.
From $60, overourheads.com
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Vitra Uten.Silo II
Satisfy that spring-cleaning urge by organizing the contents of a drawer out in the open. This reissued wall storage system is “quite a splurge,” but that’s the price of ’60s retro.
$350, allmodern.com
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Diva Watering Can
Even if all your gardening is the indoor kind, welcome the season of renewal with a stylish new watering can, created by Eero Aarnio for Alessi.
$48, alessi-shop.com
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Burberry Prorsum Brogue Trench Coat
Celebrate Mother Nature’s annual awakening in green—her favorite color—with this chicest of all possible trench coats. It’s
fashioned from heat-sealed leather.
$6,000, burberry.com
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