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This Season, the Gift Is in the Initials

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A gift box with a wooden house plaque for Mother's Day celebration on a red background.
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A new roundup counts 22 monogrammed gifts built around a single idea: let the initials do the talking rather than a card or a bow. The picks range from the everyday to the more considered, each one meant to read as personal because a name, or a set of letters, is stitched, engraved, or pressed into it. It is a small case for restraint — one detail standing in for the whole gesture.

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With reporting from Veranda.

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