Welcome back to After School Monday Edition, a not-so-brief trends debrief for paid subscribers. 🫶
In today’s issue:
Camo shorts are back (whether Vanessa Friedman likes it or not)
The “my first war” meme :/
What cool kids are using in place of the crying laughing emoji
Girls are dating for dinner
Situationship vacations
The gold digger test
The Dior Saddle Bag resurgence
The 2010 gladiator sandal lives to see another day
The dress of the summer is…wool
Why girls are wearing Uggs in the summer (I know, I know, they were invented as a post-surf shoe, but these girls are wearing them on the streets of New York)
Labubu mania hits the beauty category
And so much more, plus everything I’m buying, reading, and listening to. But first, my favorite TikTok of the week:
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Books, as you’ve probably heard, are having a moment:
But what I’ve been curious about is whether it’s really just “a moment” (I mean, we’re talking about books here) or if it’s a larger and longer-standing behavioral shift. We got our first indication of an answer this week.