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Rom-Com Core and Frog Clogs

after school weekend edition

Casey Lewis
Jan 21
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Rom-Com Core and Frog Clogs

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Hi friends! Welcome back to After School ✨weekend edition✨. Think of the daily letter as the CliffsNotes; this is the extended version for paid subscribers.

Today we’re digging into:

  • The husband-and-wife-run eBay shop turned multimillion-dollar apparel business

  • Walmart’s efforts to be an “indie beauty hotspot”

  • The beauty brand that got 100,000 new TikTok followers from Christmas hauls

  • How Nordstrom is turning its stylists into influencers

  • The rise of weird girl style in 2023

  • The death of Y2K in 2023

  • The Gen Z star who is selling out Levi’s (not Emma Chamberlain for once!)

  • Why the Madhappy x Ugg collab (debuted yesterday!) is so smart

  • In other smart collabs this week: Porsche x FaZe Clan

  • And: Fear of God x Birkenstock

  • My personal favorite collab of the week: Vermouth and sodas

And so much more.

Oh, and also! I talked to writer Lindy Segal about some of my favorite things for her newsletter Gatekeeping (great name, right?). Have I told you about the shearling coat I got from a gas station in Pennsylvania? Or the only ballet flats I’ll wear? Or the massage pillow I can’t live without (not hyperbole!)? Lindy and I chatted about those things and more:

Gatekeeping
Casey Lewis on Levi's & 'Magic' Skin Tint
Happy last day of Mercury retrograde, Gatekeepers! If you don’t believe in the power of Mercury and its tendency to remain in retrograde, you should know that this is a Mercury-fearing house. How else do you explain why everything has felt so…off? I choose to believe the universe will correct itself on Thursday, when Mercury is back on its axis, or what…
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2 months ago · 8 likes · 4 comments · Lindy Segal

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