L.A.’s Coolest Doctor’s Sweater Collection
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This roundup of things we liked this week originally appeared in the February 13, 2025 edition of theSecret Strategistnewsletter, a weekly email where we share the stuff our staff — plus a rotating cast of writers, design-world people, and various others with very good taste — would otherwise keep to themselves. If you want to get our picks straight to your inbox each week, sign uphere.
A last push on sweaters for the year before we turn optimistically toward spring. —Katy Schneider and Simone Kitchens
This Week’s List
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* ThesePiavetoothbrushes are pretty and appealing.
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* Thisexpensive long-sleevefrom All Is a Gentle Spring seems like basically the perfect long-sleeve (unfortunately).
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* ThisInstagram-ad sweaterfinally arrived, and it’s great in person! (It does not feel cheap and fits really well; now thinking of buying in another color, “dusted purple.”)
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* And we unearthed atiny, useful $6 wall peg.
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There are a lot of interesting things to know about Max Goldstein — a.k.a.Dr. Max— a primary-care physician in L.A. who started his own family-medicine practice six months ago. He ownsGardenseal RanchinMendocino; is launching a line of family-focusedskin products, like diaper ointments and anti-inflammatory salves with herbs he grows on the property, this spring; and keeps his clinic inside his own home in Santa Monica. (Which happens to be Shirley Temple’schildhood home.) He decorated the space with an 1880s medical apothecary cabinet and Turkish rugs; there are chickens and baby lambs running around in the backyard. “My pediatric patients come hang with animals before seeing me,” he says.All that being said, we wanted to know about his extensive sweater collection. So we called him up.
“I worked for almost ten years at UCLA as a primary-care physician,” Dr. Max says. “I was seeing 20 to 25 patients a day, mostly just wearing scrubs every single day. And then when I opened up my own practice, I was thinking about what my new work uniform would be. I had already aggregated a collection of sweaters over the years. Since I don’t wear a white coat anymore, I was like,Well,I think a sweater is my new scrubs. I circulate through five of them.
*One of themis fromPaul James; it’s part wool, part silk.
* One of themis fromIndustry of All Nations; that’s my nice one.
* I have a brown alpaca-hair onethat I picked up when I was 24 years old traveling through Bolivia. All of these are undyed natural fibers.
* I have a standard vintageJ.Crew rollneck onethat I picked up from a vintage store in Mendocino.
* And another one,fromJoseph Abboud, I got at Goodwill in Santa Monica.
The sweaters all have varying thicknesses. I always wear a sweater, whether it’s hot or cold.”
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