When Esquire's EIC Michael Sebastian and I first started talking about doing a story on baseball caps, I thought I'd lucked out with an easy assignment. Turns out, there's a lot more nuance (and opportunity for confusion) than you might expect. As with so many things in menswear, digging into supposedly simple subjects can be a whole lot of fun—so that's what I did. Hopefully, it'll inspire you to try a few new headwear-based moves this summer. — Jonathan Evans, style director Plus: |
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From what to wear to where to wear it, here's what you need to know. |
It's baseball cap season. That's true in the literal sense; the MLB is currently going strong and we're not too far away from the All-Star Game in July. But it's also a philosophical declaration. Because even if the idea of hitting a small white orb with a piece of wood and then running around a field were to disappear from the popular consciousness, it'd still be baseball cap season. It's summer, baby! The sun is shining, the temperatures are soaring, and headwear that keeps the glare out of your eyes and the sweat off your brow is more essential than ever. Of course, the prevalence of the baseball cap during the warmer months raises some questions. That's where we come in. |
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It's Wednesday—the day before the big day—and the 1923 and It Ends with Us actor is returning to his home in Los Angeles when I catch him on the phone. He was just in Italy to attend Ralph Lauren's Spring 2026 Purple Label fashion show, which is already pretty glitzy. But he went one better by starring in a new video in which he talks tailoring while decked out in Purple Label. Ralph has famously dressed the best of the best in Hollywood—guys like Steve McQueen, James Dean, and Marlon Brando. It's quite the list, and now Sklenar can count himself among them. This summer also marks a significant turning point for Sklenar's career. 1923, the Yellowstone prequel that helped launch him in Hollywood, wrapped up its series finale this past April. Now he's off to film an action film with Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan titled F.A.S.T. before he charts a course toward his next big role beyond the Yellowstone franchise. |
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It was already shaping up to be a big year for Bruce Springsteen. This summer marks the 50th anniversary of his breakthrough album Born to Run, and the biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere opens in the fall, with The Bear's Jeremy Allen White portraying The Boss as he grapples with his daring and experimental 1982 record Nebraska. But if we weren't already evaluating and reevaluating his career enough, now a remarkable and colossal project has entered the chat—a box set called Tracks II: The Lost Albums. The new box consists of seven complete, unreleased albums: a total of 83 songs, which instantly increases Springsteen's lifetime recorded output by about 25 percent in one fell swoop. For fans, this is a historic, consistently impressive, and genuinely revelatory project. It's also overwhelming, a needlessly unwieldy way to treat this crucial body of work. |
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