SD enterprise: In the Age of Sweatpants, These are The Best

Make 2021 the Year You Join Our Club—We'll Send You Something (It's a Magazine)

But that's not all you'll get by joining Esquire Select, our new membership program. In addition to an annual print subscription, you'll also get unlimited access to all of Esquire.com—including Politics with Charles P. Pierce and every Esquire story ever published via Esquire Classic. Plus, we'll send you a weekly, subscribers-only email, and give you exclusive access to deals and discounts from our favorite brands. It's just one way your year is sure to be better than the last—we guarantee it. Read More

The Best Sweatpants Money Can Buy Right Now

Wearing the right pair of sweatpants—in high-tech fabrics or good ol' fleece—is still the easiest way to dress down any outfit. Throw on the comfiest pair you own and some camp socks when lounging around the apartment or treat yourself to a luxe take on the style in a super premium material with a sweater layered on top and a pair of slip-ons for a WFH fit that still feels office-ready. From tried-and-true classics to updated takes on the style from some of the coolest labels around, there have never been more options—or a better time to be in the market for a pair of today's breed of subtly tweaked, expertly cut sweats. Read More

The 15 Coolest Tech and Gadget Reveals of 2021 (So Far)

Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX tech billionaire, had been the richest man in the world for less than a week at the beginning of January when he lost the spot to the previous richest man in the world, Amazon and Blue Origin tech billionaire Jeff Bezos. That was just about the most riveting tech development from the very beginning of 2021—our minds were occupied by events rather more pressing—until mid-January, when the biggest brands (and quite a few tiny ones) virtually gathered to display their latest at the annual CES trade show. At the show, devices weird, innovative, and incredibly useful were shown off and bragged about. There was a neat little wireless charging dock, but there was also a flying car and a robot that plays the piano. There was a slew of 5G smartphones, versatile laptops, and luxury TVs, and quite a few inventions that reflect our desire for a cleaner, less diseased world, like a high-tech, transparent, light-up N95 face mask from Razer that'd make the wearer look like a character from the glitch-tastic Cyberpunk 2077. Here, we've gathered up the gadgets we're most excited to test out in our own homes, many of which are set to be released later this year. Read More

Todd Snyder's Latest Collab Is Yet Another Reason to Revel in Some Shopping

Todd Snyder and Champion have been working together for close to a decade. Now the duo are bringing a third party into the mix, collaborating with The Brooklyn Circus, the Boerum Hill-based brand that's dressed discerning Brooklynites since it opened up shop in 2006. Snyder and Brooklyn Circus designer Ouigi Theodore have been friends for years, and the fruits of their labor—a capsule collection of relaxed, vintage-inflected designs inspired by boxing and its role in shaping the Black experience—reflect the ease of that relationship. The limited-edition collection—which features varsity jackets, sweaters, sweat separates, and tees produced with the help of Champion's manufacturing expertise—also prominently spotlights the iconography that's become part of The Brooklyn Circus's aesthetic vernacular. Theodore attributes part of the inspiration behind the collection to an image of Muhammad Ali at his training camp in Deer Lake, Pennsylvania, in the '70s. But other design cues hit closer to home, including graphics that reference the birth year of his grandmother (1920) and the elephants, now a hallmark of the Brooklyn Circus brand, interspersed on select pieces throughout. Read More

Marvel Finally Gets Weird in WandaVision With the Meta Question: 'Who Is Watching Who?'

One can pretty much always guess the general outline of a Marvel—or any superhero—movie before actually seeing the movie itself. Some villain threatens innocent lives. The hero steps up to fight the villain. After a brief setback where it seems the hero has no hope, the hero will inevitably win. The good guys come out on top. And even when all the heroes die along with half the population of the known universe, you can be sure that in a superhero movie they will inevitably come back in one way or another. Victory is certain. The stakes don't exist. This is why Martin Scorsese famously said Marvel movies are not cinema. "Cinema is an art form that brings you the unexpected," he argued. And Disney's MCU rarely does anything unexpected. Even the death of Tony Stark and the departure of Captain America (who might be returning!) at the end of Avengers: Endgame had been expected for years. So that's exactly what makes Disney's first MCU TV show, WandaVision, so exciting: It's weird as hell, and there's nothing expected. The first two episodes, which will dropped today, are structured like a mid-century sitcom shot in black-and-white and taking cues from the comedic structure of classics like Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie. It's a breath of fresh air in the MCU, writes Culture Editor Matt Miller. Read More

Joe Biden's Peloton Bike Could Pose a Security Risk of Hacking in the White House

Back in the day, somewhere in mid-20th century time, people thought that in the year 2000 we would be driving flying cars. Jet packs would be the norm. You know, cool stuff like that. That vision... didn't quite happen, but that doesn't mean technology hasn't made giant leaps. We have little computers in our pockets that can access practically any information in the world. We can order stuff offline and have it shipped to us day-of. We can also work out on a trendy smart bike at home, so long as someone doesn't hack it, causing a national security threat that tugs at the somewhat frayed seams of our ever-fragile democracy. That seems to be the predicament that President-elect Joe Biden and his famed Peloton bike currently face as he makes his transition into the White House next week. As CNN reports, "Past presidents' high-tech gadgets have typically required security vetting and retrofitting—especially when they connect to the internet or cell networks." While that has worked in the past with things like the golf simulator Trump had installed, the Peloton may prove to be a bit trickier. Read More

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Friday, January 15, 2021

In the Age of Sweatpants, These are The Best

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