If there’s any time to take a risk with your wardrobe, it’s spring. After all, the winning combination of weird, temperamental weather, a full closet turnover and people touching grass for the first time in six months ensures that there are ample opportunities to reinvent your sartorial identity with a new pair of boots or a just-copped transitional layer.
What’s your new move? Do you dare to try the tracksuit? Interested in interesting eyewear? Let us help. We’ve highlighted four can’t-miss spring style trends to try, along with the staples you’ll need to pull ’em off. Confidence and preparation are key.
Running has gotten longer, cooler and more dangerous in recent years, as part of its multi-decade apotheosis into an adventure sport. But let’s remember how running spread across the States in the first place, and the surest way that the sport can engage with its community, raise lots of money for charity and encourage casuals to turn their practice into a passion: via the road race. There are some fantastic ones all across the country, with many of them turning 50 in the coming years, as America approaches a half-century since its love affair with running truly began.
Where it’s from: Named 2023 Worldwide Whiskey Producer of the Year by IWSC and Brand Innovator and Distiller of the Year at the 2025 Icons of Whisky, Bardstown Bourbon Company is part of a newly-reorganized Lofted Spirits parent company (which also includes Green River Distilling Co. and Lofted Custom Spirits, a custom whiskey production business). It is based in Bardstown, KY.
Why we’re drinking this: Bardstown is one of the more innovative and modern whiskey brands we’ve encountered (they also contract distill for up to 30 distilleries), so we were thrilled to meet up with Dan Callaway, head of new product development for Bardstown Bourbon Co., to discuss the inaugural entry in their new Distillery Reserve line.
