Monday, September 21, 2026
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Today is the last day of summer, which means that the best time for menswear is upon us: autumn. As such, Esquire style director Jonathan Evans rounded up the five garments every man needs in his wardrobe to make the most of this unfortunately much too short season. The usual suspects are there—sweaters, jackets—but Evans makes the case for a few other pieces, too, which may not have been so trendy in recent years, but endure as classics. Read below to find out. —Chris Hatler, deputy editor
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Menswear is getting back to basics. That’s very good news. Here’s how to stock up for the chilly season ahead.
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If you’ve been keeping a close eye on your social feeds—and your social feeds are dominated, like mine, by people who think way too much about the way guys get dressed—you might have noticed a theme emerging recently. Menswear is experiencing a recalibration. The “anything goes” mentality is retreating into the background, replaced by an impulse to gear up in clothes that are nice. Normal. The sort of stuff that you can mix and match, wear and not worry about.
Some folks posit that this is a consequence of the resurgence of preppy style. I’m not so sure. More and more men are indeed looking at the wardrobes their fathers and grandfathers cultivated and thinking, “Hey, maybe that could work for me.” However, I don’t think that the preppy thing was the instigator for this reevaluation; it was the other way around.
Exhausted by the churn of social media, the questions about what shoes or pants or what-have-yous are cool right now, men first started to think about a return to normalcy. So, the cause was actually the desire to invest in and wear clothes that make our lives easier. The effect? Embracing an archetype built on long-lasting staples and versatile pieces that can pair with pretty much anything in your wardrobe.
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Jon Bon Jovi is an American entertainment institution. He rose to prominence in the eighties as the frontman for his band, Bon Jovi, and has remained there ever since. His band has released sixteen records during its tenure, and he’s released two solo collections. Jon Bon Jovi has starred in feature films as well as TV series, and owned and operated an arena football team. This summer, he returned to touring with his band for the first time since he underwent vocal-cord surgery four years ago.
"I was never the best at anything. I was never the great athlete; I was never the guy that the girls liked the most. But I was the guy that was like, “Why can’t I be on the team? Why can’t I be that guy?"
"My mom was a Marine and a Playboy Bunny. Talk about juxtaposition. She was like, “Boot camp didn’t scare me none.” So when she said Camelot was real, and you can go to the moon, that’s good enough for me. She passed a year and a half ago. She was tough, she was a pain in the ass, but we were really at peace."
"You don’t know when you’ve written a great song. There were many times where I’ve gone, “Got it!” Wrong. And then other ones, I didn’t hear. “Livin’ on a Prayer” was completely written. The lyrics, the chord structure, and the melodies, it was all finished. But the high note at the end of the second chorus, the key change at the end, the bass line, which is what makes it really work, that happened in rehearsal. So I have no clue."
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The world is always in need of great retail. If that retail can be real brick-and-mortar locations, that’s ideal, but it doesn’t have to be. Since Covid and all the in-real-life closures that came in its wake, we’ve just been starved for places that feel like one person’s—or one group of people’s—real clothing curation. There are a million guys on Instagram Reels who are only curating bad outfits and worse tattoos. What this world needs—what Instagram needs—is fewer, more knowledgable voices.
Thankfully, we just got one back.
After the closure of its brick-and-mortar in 2023, legendary menswear store Oi Polloi has launched a new website. Co-founder Nigel Lawson has returned to a digital stall, slinging the menswear—most notably parkas and jackets—and camping goods that made the store a staple of menswear in Manchester (and around the world).
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