Lanachella and Microshorts

after school weekend edition

Welcome back to After School Weekend Edition, a weekly trend debrief for paid subscribers.💫

I have a lot of good stuff for you today! Today we’re talking about:

• Piper Sandler Taking Stock With Teens: my favorite data points

• Coachella micro trend report (and a digression about the last time I went)

• Archival Victoria’s Secret is the new Skims

• Dad bobs

• Clarks Wallabees

• Bikini charms

• Bronze drops

• What is a sundress? A viral debate

• Is Kylie Cosmetics OK…?

• The “I’m just a guy” workout trend

• “Metal is girlypop”

• Drizzle drizzle meme

Plus everything else that happened this week in youth culture and what I’m buying/reading/listening to. But first, my favorite TikTok of the week (you have to wait for it but it’s so worth it):

@jane.desmaraishuge indoor camper

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Twice a year, Piper Sandler releases its Semi-Annual Taking Stock With Teens report, a reliably great look into how young people are spending and what they’re buying. Their 47th annual survey of 6,000 teens was released earlier this week, and I jotted down a bunch of highlights — some of which I discussed on CNBC this past Friday, if you want to watch me nervously chat in my new apartment with a mostly empty bookcase behind me and piles of boxes just out of view.

the lighting in my apartment really did my hair dirty and i have no one to blame but myself