What if your button-down regulated your body temperature? Your socks were “robotically knit” for supreme comfort? Your pants water repellent—and dashing to boot?

Nike on Newbury Street is reopening with a brand-new design befitting a city as sports-obsessed as Boston. The new “multi-category brand experience” store is only the 12th of its kind in the United States.

London-based heritage brand L.K. Bennett recently joined the ranks at Copley Place Mall with a 2,350-square-foot pop-up shop on the first level. (They plan to move into a permanent location in the mall within the year.)

With the 118th Boston Marathon just a few months away, runners are kicking into high gear with their training—and now they’ve got something new to wear while running.

 If you still haven’t quite wrapped your mind around the fact that there are now printers that can print in 3D, head down to the new MakerBot store on Newbury Street to see some in action.

Boston is now home to one of the biggest—and most unique—Chanel stores in the country.

Take one part vintage cookbook store, one part chef-grade subterranean kitchen and a sprinkling of gourmet kitchen ephemera, and what do you get? Farm & Fable, a new South End shop.

Next time you’re walking down Newbury Street, consider this: About 150 years ago, you would have been underwater. The popular shopping street and the surrounding Back Bay was comprised of tidal flat