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More news from French retail: A.P.C. would like $165 for a hooded sweatshirt. The article of sweat gear is just like the one you generally reserve for the gym, post-breakup sartorial choices, and the deepest and darkest of style ruts. Yup, same "rather loose" fit, same "elasticated ribbing at wrists and hem," in the words of the brand's product description, but this one has the number 87 silkscreened on the front, because that's when A.P.C. began. So there's that. [A.P.C.]