Quietcations and Tweecore
after school weekend edition
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In today’s letter:
A plea/prediction re: a party reporting comeback (who’s going to be the Gen Z Cindy Adams?)
Alix Earle launched skinny jeans
Vintage White House Black Market as the new it label
“Shoes are over”
The LoveShackFancy to Isabel Marant pipeline
Has the blush craze peaked? (yes, I’m talking about Selena’s new launch)
Contour as a buzzword (yes, I’m talking about Hailey’s new launch)
The “you’re so funny” viral meme
The “cute winter boots” TikTok movement
“My New Year’s resolution was to finally get a reservation at Chili’s”
Plus everything else that happened in style, beauty, and culture and what I’m buying, reading, and listening to. But first, my favorite TikTok of the week:
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I’m predicting* a party-reporting resurgence
*desperately begging for
As a teen in Missouri, I devotedly read Gawker, Socialite Rank, Imaginary Socialite, Park Avenue Peerage, Guest of a Guest, New York Social Diary, and surely others I can’t remember the names of, desperate for glimpses into lives more glamorous than mine.
I suspect this obsession was a symptom of spending too much time watching Gossip Girl and reading Teen Vogue before my frontal lobe had fully developed, but it’s impossible to deny the voyeuristic appeal of reading the gossip and goings-on from parties you can’t attend, restricted by proximity both physical (I was 1,060 miles from New York) and societal (I was just some kid in the rural Midwest).