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AllSaints' Tsuru shirt nods to the style's history while feeling just right for right now. If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser.       The $52 Shirt You Can Wear the Rest of Summer (And Then Some)   Ah, the aloha shirt. Once fraught only because your drunkest uncle had a propensity for wearing the most aggressively ugly versions of it, the classically summery button-front has a whole new narrative this year thanks to a bunch of gun-loving, anti-government (and sometimes-racist) turds who are trying to co-opt it as a symbol of the Boogaloo movement, which is, broadly, in favor of a second civil war. Fuck that. Don't let those idiots win. Get a great Hawaiian shirt and wear it with gusto this summer. Wear it to work for anti-racist causes. Wear it to vote for people who support common-sense, life-saving gun regulations. Or wear it just to hang out. I'll be doing the same. Wondering which one? Well, last summer, we sang the praises of a bright-red version from AllSaints, the UK-based label that has, however counterintuitively, been churning out some of the best aloha shirts on the market for a minute now. This summer, Esquire Style Director Jonathan Evans is singing the praises of its slightly more toned-down cousin. Here's why. Read More           Netflix's Fear City Hints at Trump's Mob Connections. The Real Story Goes Even Deeper.   Netflix's new documentary miniseries, Fear City: New York vs. the Mafia, isn't about political figures with mob-like tendencies—it's about the real-life mafia, which exercised huge power over New York in the 1970s and '80s, and the efforts by the FBI and the US attorney's office (then helmed by future Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani) to take it down. The series makes extensive use of the FBI's secret recordings from bugs planted in mob homes, cars, and hangouts, and on one tape, Trump's name comes up in relation to a construction deal. It's one of many Trump references in the doc that show how intertwined our president was with organized crime families. Read More           This Texas Tribune Story Describes One of the Most Chilling Non-Fiction Sentences You'll Ever Read   Wednesday's Hot Spot spotlight falls on the Rio Grande Valley in Texas thanks to remarkable reporting—and glorious writing—from Shannon Najmabadi and Miguel Gutierrez, Jr. at the Texas Tribune. You can lose track of the pure logistics of dealing with a pandemic in which the general government has lost whatever interest it had been able to muster up in the first place. And you can lose track of the people who work the jobs in which they have to cope with those logistics. It can't come as any surprise to anyone anymore, not when situations arise like the one from the TT story that is described. Charles P. Pierce explains why it's one of the most chilling sentences he's ever read. Read More           Celebrities Could Be Making Good Wine. Instead, They're Making Bad Wine for Good Money.   The world of wine can be as daunting as Hollywood. As a sommelier, Victoria James's experience with movie-making was non-existent until a few months ago, when her memoir was published and she was thrown into a storm of agents, producers, showrunners, and option agreements. The labyrinthine process of adapting a book for the screen made her a fish out of water, and with money as the only common language between parties, she came to understand why so many authors take the check and walk away from development. The same scenario is playing out in the wine world, where Hollywood's biggest winos seem fixated on turning celeb labels into multi-million dollar companies. Here, James explains why she knows that to be a burgundy-soaked red flag. Read More           15 Pairs of Shorts to Keep You Cool All Summer Long   We're living in one hell of a time for shorts, the unsung hero of summer style. Not only are temperatures ripe right now for wearing them, but with the office nowhere in sight, shorts are getting play during the workday, from the comfort of your home office, too. For many, engaging your personal style nowadays means finding the sharpest version of comfort in your dresser. As far as shorts go, these 15 options are well worth your pursuit, whether you're headed out for a socially-distanced weekend hang or banging on your keyboard on a Wednesday. Read More           Harry Styles Has a Mustache Now. And Yes, It's Glorious.   While traveling through Modena, Styles stopped by Villa Manodori, the Massimo Bottura-helmed olive oil mecca, in an outfit that excellently embodies the effortless, ah, style, Castiglione first referred to. In a cheerful striped tee, perfectly cut denim, scuffed sneakers (artfully mismatched laces and all), and a standout scuzzy 'stache, Styles looks like the second coming of sprezzatura we didn't know we needed. Posing amicably with a bottle of olive oil, the singer (perhaps expectedly) looks exactly how you should when you've been on lockdown in Italy—or anywhere, really—for who-knows-how-many months. 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