Mankeeping and Heirloomcore

after school monday edition

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:

@annaotwellwe are clearly tourists

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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.