After School by Casey Lewis

After School by Casey Lewis

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Casey Lewis
Aug 04, 2025
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Welcome back to After School Monday Edition, a not-so-brief trends debrief for paid subscribers. 🫶

In today’s letter:

  • Hot girls summer? More like crash out summer

  • The power of AI manifestation

  • What everyone wore at Lollapalooza

  • The skater shoe making a comeback

  • The “go-see” outfit trend

  • The collab sorority girls will sell out

  • “Carolyn Bessette blonde”

  • “Read dating” is coming for Tinder

  • The “performative man” final boss

  • “Tired girl” makeup is the new “clean girl” makeup

  • The girls are turning on “woo woo” deodorant

  • Fitness culture is “making us sad and boring”

  • And the drink of the summer is a colostrum maca smoothie

And so much more, plus everything I’m buying, reading, and listening to. But first, my favorite TikTok of the week:

@hoped.supersecreti was born in the wrong generation #2000s #hollister #fyp #xyzbca #teenager
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For Gen Z, “it’s the summer of the crash out,” Glamour declared in a headline on Thursday, a sentiment that’s been reflected on my FYP for weeks:

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