The Best Suit For Under $300

Before y'all shame me, I know how crazy this sounds. Advocating for a mall brand suit in Esquire. I should be debating lapel widths, shoulder styles, and fabrics with fellow menswear guys. I should be telling every man the value befriending a tailor. But hear me out. I'm young, broke, and have amassed a small collection of too-nice-for-my-income vintage suits at estate sales, eBay auctions, and consignment stores. But wearing those suits felt like a schtick. I needed a Level One suit, something cheap that I could beat up and incorporate into my way too casual wardrobe. This Collins suit from Abercrombie & Fitch is exactly what I needed.

View in Browser  SHOP EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIBE Long Live the Mall Suit Before y'all shame me, I know how crazy this sounds. Advocating for a mall brand suit in Esquire. I should be debating lapel widths, shoulder styles, and fabrics with fellow menswear guys. I should be telling every man the value befriending a tailor. But hear me out. I'm young, broke, and have amassed a small collection of too-nice-for-my-income vintage suits at estate sales, eBay auctions, and consignment stores. But wearing those suits felt like a schtick. I needed a Level One suit, something cheap that I could beat up and incorporate into my way too casual wardrobe. This Collins suit from Abercrombie & Fitch is exactly what I needed. Read More Um, When Will My Baby Sleep Through the Night? You asked, Dr. Harvey Karp answered. And while every baby is different, these techniques will hurry yours along to more restful evenings. Read More The 17 Best Swim Trunks You Can Score on Amazon From Adidas and Nike to Calvin Klein, consider this your one-stop shop. Read More Read Robert Towne's 1991 Essay About Screenwriting Several years ago my five-year-old daughter bounced into my study and found me hunched and miserable over my typewriter, feeling like a housewife who couldn't get her stove to boil water. Kate wanted to know why I wouldn't play with her. "Because I'm stuck." She wanted to know why I was stuck. "Because it's hard." She thought about this for a minute and said, "Then why do it, Dad? Why don't you cease this activity and become an artist?" By artist she meant painter, of course, but despite its surprising diction, her question was not an unfamiliar one. It was, in fact, a question I'd heard posed all my life, and not just to me. Read More Alleged Democrat Jared Golden Did All but Endorse Trump with His Stupid Op-Ed Don't worry, he tells an anxious, tottering republic. Be not afraid of a second Trump term. Read More Esquire's First-Ever Watch Lover's Tour An exclusive tour with Creative Director Nick Sullivan. Read More The 30 Best Movies of 2024 (So Far) 2024 is shaping up to be a very exciting year—from the biggest blockbusters (Dune: Part Two) to the smallest indies (The People's Joker, Free Time). June saw the release of two wildly different yet equally superb family dramas—Janet Planet and Last Summer—that I think will go down as classics. That's to say nothing of all we have to look forward to in the back half of the year—Gladiator 2! Anora! Megalopolis!?!? Until then, here's a list of the best movies we've seen so far this year. Read More How satisfied are you with the content of this newsletter? Follow Us Unsubscribe | Privacy Notice | CA Notice at Collection Esquire is a publication of Hearst Magazines. ©2024 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This email was sent by Hearst Magazines, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019-3779