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June 5, 2026

Today: Our style expert’s ideal summer pants. Plus …

The perfect summer pants, according to our style expert

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Style writer Hannah Frye says these cotton-poplin tie pants check all of her boxes for quintessential summer attire: They’re lightweight, airy, and “a dream to style.” Perhaps most important, they feel breezy, even in the stickiest summer air.

“I’ve worn them pretty much everywhere,” Hannah says, “to the Wirecutter office, on vacation in Europe, while running errands in New York City humidity, and on nearly every single flight I’ve taken.”

Cute, comfortable, and cooling pants→

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Plus: Flip-flops you can walk miles in

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These bouncy sandals are made from a supportive foam and flexible straps that glide with — not against — the skin. They’re so comfortable that Hannah once walked eight miles in them and reported “no blisters between my toes, no sore ankles, nothing.”

Really good flip-flops→

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Your daily deal: The blush our beauty expert wears almost every day

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Our favorite cream blush is smooth and saturated, gliding over skin with a glossy sheen of color. Its dewy, long-lasting formula converted beauty expert Neha Tandon from a blush hater to a lover. She says: “I’ve worn it almost every single day for the past four months.”

It’s $15 off right now→

One last thing: We ate a lot of candy

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Spicy gummy bears? Key lime pie chocolate? Wasabi candy? On this week’s episode of Wirecutter Taste Test, we traveled the world via the candy aisle, taste-testing 12 international confections in a head-to-head bracket-style tournament.

Meet your international candy champion→

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