HeyJaredClose-reading the reruns with Phoebe Maltz Bovy
All the clothes, interiors, and cultural politics of TV shows very much not of the moment.
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Fashion clock stopped in 2024 (opens the original)
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There’s a line I’ve been stuck on (and shared, when I saw it) from a newsletter I read a couple weeks ago, about a particular look as seen on some rich Californian women evoking 2025 fashion Substack. I thought this was a pretty impressive burn, for its subtlety. But also, am I being burnt here? What is now and what is so last season? I give a lot of th… Read more
Pretendestinianing (opens the original)
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There’s the gossipy part, the Very Serious part, and then the part that captivated me: the media analysis one.A Philadelphia schoolteacher named (?) Hannah Gann went around claiming to be a Palestinian. She was, as some are, all-in for Palestine, but wore her keffiyeh for heritage reasons. Or so it seemed. Some fellow leftist activists wondered if she might be not actually so Palestinian after all, and did some digging. She admitted to not being Palestinian. This much makes sense.Where it stops
The tragedy of the century (opens the original)
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What we lost (opens the original)
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Shopped out (opens the original)
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I’m well aware that people mainly tune into this blog for updates on my attitude towards clothes-shopping at any given time. That’s why I will share the strange and mildly concerning fact that I don’t really want any of it at the moment. Normally I have some list in mind of items I’m either not buying immediately because it would be too extravagant or, … Read more
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