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Marriage begins in a lie. And yet there may be nothing sweeter. [View in Browser]( [Esquire Sunday Reads]( [I Think You're Fat]( For Better and Worse I was married ten years ago, on a brazenly warm day in January, from my father's house, in a dress my mother made, with the same blithe blindness that sends a bungee jumper off a bridge. I was thirty-four—not a young bride but about right for my narrow slice of the world: baby boomer, middle class professional, exquisitely self-referential. My kind didn’t marry young. In our twenties, marriage was about as hip as Tupperware parties. Driving around in my parents’ car the day before the wedding, I felt feverish, slightly inauthentic, immensely proud, awkward, and unaware, like a toddler on her maiden voyage as a biped. I married the man I married because I liked his version of myself better than my own. I married him because I loved him, because I felt more real with him than I had felt with anyone else. I’m not sure what, at the time, I meant by real. I suppose I was pleased by the person I saw reflected in his eyes. There were a couple of different versions of me in those days: the addled girl in love with the romance of self-destruction and the woman my husband saw, the one who gazed with an archaeologist’s interest over the precipice but was in no danger of falling off. I married him because he loved Ford Madox Ford, because he made the perfect martini, because we could fight and the walls did not fall down, because he was more at home with being a man than any man I knew, because he shouldered responsibility with deceptive ease, and because his eyes welled up with tears elicited by the everyday grace of ordinary people. [Read the Full Story]( [MORE FROM ESQUIRE]( [The Movies You Shouldn't Watch With Your Kids]( It's Time to Admit That Seattle Is a Style Capital When we talk about U.S. style cities, New York casts an incredibly long shadow. It’s the only American city with a fashion week that matters, for instance, and a hub for both industry and media. From a global perspective, it’s often seen as the single stateside generator of fashion. But that oversimplification cuts out a lot of regional scenes, some with rich histories and long-lasting impacts. And with that in mind, one American city that deserves its flowers right now is Seattle. [Read the Full Story]( [The Rise and Fall of Planet Hollywood]( The Best Jeans Under $100 to Snatch Up Immediately The thing is, we all need jeans. As much as we love [chinos](, [trousers](, and obviously [sweats](, no wardrobe is truly complete without some denim in the mix. It's the backbone of fashion. And while getting the perfect pair could be an exercise in [expense]( and effort, it doesn't have to be. It pains me to admit this (as someone who owns a lot of expensive pairs), but there really is no need to shell out the big bucks. Really! Nowadays, there's a lot of high-quality, great-fitting denim on the market at a considerable bargain. And, this incredible denim I speak of comes in [all sorts of styles and shades](—cuffed, slim fit, dark wash, distressed—the options truly are endless. [Read the Full Story]( [Whither Jon Stewart?]( 'Dialed In': Your Essential Video Guide to the World of Smartwatches To our minds, mechanical watches have been pretty damn smart since as far back as the 16th century anyhow. And frankly not being bugged, on an hourly basis, about how many steps you didn’t do today is a definite bonus. Yet smart watches are here to stay and for those who like the convenient and sophisticated functionality, the brands that will continue to win are those that can fuse the technology and the aesthetics into one compelling package. Streaming in the link below, we check out a few highlights of what’s out there right now in smart watch land. 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