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Can I Take My Shirt Off in This Public Place?

A very important summer flowchart for men

By The Editors
May 25, 2017 9:00 am EDT

This is just one installment of 37 Things a Man’s Gotta Do This Summer, our annual compendium of everything worth seeing, doing, eating, drinking and generally making time for in your neck of the woods between now and September.

For most of the year (fall, winter, spring), you don’t think twice about putting a shirt on in the morning.

Then summertime hits, and all bets are off. But not every summer situation is a time for bare-chested exploits.

So below, we help men tackle a simple question: Can I take my shirt off here?

Read carefully.

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