It has become the custom that when sporty types depart from the island, they leave their trophies inside the bus-shelter-like boat that gives One Boat its name, perhaps on the basis that they mean more on Ascension than anywhere else.

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Mark-Evan Blackman, an assistant professor of design at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology, says the bespoke proliferation may be tied to young Hollywood types becoming enamored with custom suits about a decade ago.

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