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In Los Angeles, Kyle Ng visits hat maker to the stars Gladys Tamez, who whips up a creation for soul singer Mayer Hawthorne. Kyle flies to London to talk trilbies and rude boys with the locals.

Kyle travels from Los Angeles to New York to San Francisco to bring new meaning to fashion's most versatile invention, the T-shirt. RocNation's DJ RossOne drops knowledge about rap tees, and Kyle explores the trend of tall tees.

Kyle heads to Scotland to look into all things plaid and tartan, and then low-rides Pendleton Plaid in Los Angeles. Kyle travels to Nairobi, Kenya, to learn from the Maasai about shuka cloth.

With help from Trinidad James, Kyle gets his kicks treading the floorboards from Tokyo to Los Angeles for a look at the latest trends in sneakers.

Kyle travels to Japan to watch an indigo dye master create $800 jeans; in LA, he checks out a masked artist designing the next level of 21st-century denims.

Rodeo in Texas, line-dancing in Rome, and banging heads with some death-metalheads obsessed with cowboy boots in Botswana.