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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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For a year or so in my twenties, I had the pleasure of working at an outdoors store in Chicago. The store was called Uncle Dan's and it was basically a local version of an REI. I probably sold over 1,000 water bottles. Need proof of my expertise? Let's see how many water bottle brands I can still recite from memory: Hydroflask, Nalgene, Platypus, Snow Peak, Klean Kanteen, Stanley, Yeti, Katadyn, Lifestraw, Camelbak... I think that's enough. But ask me which one of these brands made the best water bottle, and I'd be hard pressed to answer, because they all had issues. The Hydro Flasks leaked; the Yetis were too heavy; the straw on the Camelbak was impossible to clean; and the Nalgenes, though adorable, were impossible to drink from. What I learned from the year I spent hawking water bottles is that there's no such thing as a perfect water bottle. At least there didn't use to be. Enter the Owala Free Sip. |
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Who says, "sun's out, guns out," has to be a real thing? |
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Thoughtful gifts that don't require a lot of thought. |
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I'll admit that one of the reasons that I got into running was for fashion. I dug the shoes. I appreciate Brooks and Hoka because both are so squarely focused on running, as opposed to Nike or Adidas, and both have loyal followings. There's a reason practically every running store carries Hoka and Brooks. If you want to go full fam on a brand, though, Hoka makes shoes in kids sizes. It makes recovery slides. Heck, it even makes hiking sandals for those days you just want to walk in the woods. Brooks does not. The brands themselves are extremely different, though. |
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