Expert Opinion

This season, do your friends and family a favor: get some guidance on your gift-buying. Style asked the owners and managers of 20-plus local shops what they're buying for the folks on their lists. We figured, if it's good enough for them, it's good enough for us.

• By Carrie Cross and Mary Murphy • Edited by Laura Wexler • Portraits by John Davis

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