Levi’s New Under-$100 Jeans Are Proof They Still Write the Book on Denim

The latest riff on the denim icon blends history, durability, and just the right amount of throwback style. If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser.       The Levi's 501 '93 Is Proof the OG Jeans Remain Undefeated   Here's a very abridged version of denim history for you: In 1873, Levi Strauss partners with Jacob Davis to file a patent for the process of putting rivets on work pants for the first time. A few years later, and voila: blue jeans as we know 'em are born. The rest is all commentary. To this day, the Levi's 501—inarguably the most iconic pant style produced by the brand—remains the standard-bearer by which all other denim is judged, and whether you're looking to buy your first pair or your fifteenth, the recently tweaked 501 '93 more than upholds its storied legacy. Avidan Grossman explains how for this week's Esquire Endorsement. Read More           Let's All Point and Laugh at Jeff Sessions (Remember Him?)   We have reached the sad end of the political career of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, who discovered far too late that there is no amount of spittle that you can lick that will save you from the inevitable career suicide when you ally yourself with Donald Trump. On Tuesday night, JeffBo tried to regain the Senate seat he'd given up to be attorney general in the president*'s punching-bag cabinet. He got freight-trained in a Republican primary by a former Auburn football coach named Tommy Tuberville. In the end, the president* submarined Sessions as though JeffBo were an Atlantic City glazier he could stiff on an invoice. He endorsed Tuberville. Charles P. Pierce explains why, for his part, incumbent Democratic senator Doug Jones still has a long, hard pull ahead of him to keep his seat. Read More           The Decades-Long History of the Washington Redskins Ignoring Reasonable Calls to Change Their Mascot   The two most important words in the Washington Redskins' statement regarding a nickname change are Dan and Snyder. The businessman and founder of Snyder Communications is still the owner of this football team, after years of tirading against the possibility of Washington's mascot being anything but a racial slur. This isn't the first time Snyder or the team has been pressured on the issue—in fact, the fight to remove the slur has been decades long, dating back as far as 1968. The unfortunate difference is, none of that pushback was tied to advertising revenue. Read More           What's the Best Summer Hat of 2020? One of These 10 Styles.   The summertime cap isn't so much a style as it is a feeling, an abstract and often difficult-to-articulate sense of warm-weather goodwill tethered to memories of summers bygone. The six-panel may indeed remain the purest expression of the form, but the summertime cap can be any hat you choose to endow with that spirit. And if you're fed up with throwing on the same old snapback every day, there's a bevy of other styles vying for coveted front-of-shelf space in your closet. Here are 10 to (strongly) consider. Read More           12 Smoky Whiskeys You Can (And Should) Savor All Summer Long   Peat is divisive. Some describe its presence in whiskey as acrid, medicinal, kind of like a tar-and-iodine smoothie. Others can't get enough of it. So to peat or not to peat is at least a question, if not the question, when deciding what whiskey to drink. There is a wide range of smoky whiskey to enjoy, from light and crisp to assertive and heavy to whiskey that delivers a big, smoky punch to the face. If you think you don't like peated whiskey, perhaps you just haven't tried the right one yet. Here's a list of some recent entries into the smoky, peated category to hunt down and savor. Read More           The 29 Best Shows on Netflix to Fill Every Second of Your Free Time   At this point, you've reached old age in your long, storied Netflix-subscribing tenure. As a loyal, years-long subscriber, you may have reached a point where nightly binges start blending into your subconscious, your dreams indistinguishable from the stories beaming from your laptop. (Which tends to happen when you spend a weekend going: Wake, Netflix, sleep, rinse, repeat.) Was that you who owned an illicit tiger zoo in your youth? Maybe you're under the impression you can bake a sourdough loaf with the perfect crumb. Or, if you close your eyes and concentrate really hard, you can manipulate and bend the four elements. You think you hear a laugh track cackling from behind you every time you make a joke. Anyway. Imagined or not, this all sounds a hell of a lot better than real life. So keep it up, intrepid dreamer, with the best shows Netflix has to offer. Read More         Read More on Esquire.com       Follow Us     Unsubscribe  Privacy Notice   esquire.com ©2020 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Email Privacy, 300 W 57th St., Fl. 19 (sta 1-1), New York, NY 10019