Dressing for the dog days of summer is a singular sort of drag. Even worse, sometimes you have to pull it together and look like a respectable adult. We're here to help. Give our guide a read below and stop sweating your warm-weather look. —Jonathan Evans
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Even in the dog days of summer, you will need to put on proper clothes at some point.
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So you want to get dressed like an adult with a real sense of style, but it’s hot as hell outside. I feel your pain. And I’m going to tell you how to do it.
Some guys will reach for linen, and I’ve tackled the ins and outs of that decision in this story. Others, who are more casually inclined, will begin a strict diet of heavyweight cotton tees, which hide sweat and give your look structure when you’re paring down to the absolute essentials. Others still will bust out the tropical wool, which sounds counterintuitive until you’ve done your research and learned that it isn’t. (I’ve also covered that in the past.)
This leaves you with another question: What’s right for me? I’d say it’s best to take a holistic approach and grab a little from column A, a little from column B, and something from column C for good measure. Dressing for the dog days is not a one-size-fits-all thing. But each of these approaches to summertime style has its place in your day-to-day life. Put them all together and you might just make it to autumn.
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In 2009, author William R. Forstchen wrote and published One Second After, a speculative novel about the immediate aftermath of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the United States. Anything with a battery is dead. The book’s grim appeal is in how bad things get when modern society is suddenly thrust into a medieval way of life.
In 2027, movie audiences will see that all played out for themselves when One Second After hits theaters from Moving Picture Institute. The movie, from Scott Rogers in his feature directing debut, adapts Forstchen’s novel with Holloway in the lead role. Set in the real town of Black Mountain, North Carolina, the movie sees Josh Holloway playing John Matherson, a former Pentagon analyst who must protect his family, and his community, after North Korea sets off pulse bombs that disable all technology in North America.
“It’s a study about what to do,” says Holloway in an exclusive interview, “and how to survive.”
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Does it feel like, suddenly, everyone is talking about getting a sauna?
Let me put some numbers behind that feeling. The worldwide sauna industry has now crossed $1 billion in annual revenue, with the U.S. generating more than $206 million. It’s a small slice of the larger wellness industry ($2.1 trillion stateside), but all signals point toward accelerated growth in the next five years. High-end hotels and gyms are investing in top-line products, private-equity-backed chains and direct to-consumer lines are rapidly expanding, and celebrities like Glen Powell are touting sweating it out as the new chosen activity for him and his bros.
The best-known and currently most widespread version of the wellness practice here in the U.S.—the sauna—comes from Finland. (There, a staggering 90 percent of the population uses a sauna once a week, and the city of Helsinki just opened Saunasaari, which translates to “Sauna Island,” to the public.) New makers are clambering to become the brand to meet this moment for both home and hospitality clients. The Esquire team consensus was that infrared saunas that use infrared light to heat you—and don’t require the intense plumbing and ventilation of traditional saunas—make the most sense for the modern consumer. And of all the brands doing it, one tended to stand out.
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