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Welcome to Add to Cart, in which Esquire editors tell you about the clothes, shoes, watches, gear, gadgets, booze, and anything else we're coveting right now. - The Editors at Esquire |
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Nothing—and we mean nothing—finishes a fit quite like a jacket or coat. It is the top layer in all senses of the word. The one that brings the whole look together, the one that people see instantly. And there are many, many types: styles for winter, styles for spring, styles for formal occasions, and styles that you just want to wear all the time no matter the scenario. The best option, though, is relative. There's not one end-all, be-all. There are, however, 10 essentials, 10 types of jackets and coats that every stylish man worth his salt needs to have in his wardrobe—or at least be adequately aware of. |
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From Timex to Seiko, the shopping behemoth offers an extensive selection of affordable timepieces. |
| Peloton isn't exactly the beacon of hope it once was during the pandemic. It still might be the best option for you. |
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The new collab from longtime friends Chris Gibbs and Brendon Babenzien is all about fun, freedom—and damn cool clothes. |
| Invest in the room you spend most of your life in. |
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Your water really isn't as clean as you think it is. I know, I know, that's a scary thing to say, and I'm really not trying to spook you—it's just the unfortunate truth. If you want your water to be clean for any two things, it's drinking and showering. Water filters can (kind of) tackle the first one, but you can't really Brita yourself a shower every day. So, the Jolie Filtered Shower Head is my secret weapon for taking on the second. |
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 Brendon Babenzien and Chris Gibbs have been at this for a while. Now the creative director of J.Crew men's and the owner of Union Los Angeles, respectively, the two started out in the fashion world in the same orbit. In the mid '90s, Babenzien joined the team at venerable—and highly influential—skate brand Supreme. Right around the same time, Gibbs came onto the crew at Union. Downtown New York hotspots that quickly morphed into institutions, both managed by streetwear legend James Jebbia. Inevitably, some hanging out occurred. |
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In 1993, Counting Crows' debut record was the sound of premature disillusionment. How are we supposed to feel about it today? |
| This week, a sheepish headshot of the King of Queens actor resurfaced—and the Internet can't get enough. (Still.) |
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We delve into the mind of the rapper and fashion icon as he celebrates being the face of the Feels Like UGG Global Campaign. |
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| It was the first weekend in June, and I was sitting on a bench in the yard with Robert Lee Williams, who has long dreadlocks and a face with sharp features, almost too pretty for prison. He used to be a Blood, now he's looking to be a freelance prison journalist like me. He had recently published his first piece, about losing his friend in prison to a drug overdose, in the Prison Journalism Project. He hung his head, gloomy about the news of the new directive: the New York state prison system, with one stroke of a bureaucratic pen, had instituted an approvals process for creative work — paintings, poetry, feature journalism — so laborious that it would deter the most creative minds in New York prisons. |
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| Five categories, 20 options, one relaxed attitude. |
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| When I used to think of my boarding-school classmate Leon Jacob—before I knew about his convictions, before I learned he was serving a life sentence in a Texas prison—I'd picture him standing in the sunshine outside my dormitory. He was wearing a white polo, so he must've been on his way to golf practice. The sun tinged his dark-blond curls. He looked golden, all swagger and confidence as he shouted up for his sister, who lived in my dorm. Because it was the nineties, and no one had cell phones to communicate, visitors would usually walk into the dorm and ask a resident to go fetch someone. Leon, however, didn't bother. He just yelled from the path outside instead, sure that someone would hear him and do what he wanted. |
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