10 a.m. at the office
OOTD, Tradwives, Harris-Walz deer hunting merch, Jack Schlossberg, a stripper at the Ritz.
Hi all, I decided to edit a news roundup from my office. Things feel pretty lazy, which is only natural in the last drags of August. While I was biking to work this morning, it was cold! As you can see from the picture, I am only wearing a sweatshirt and a light scarf, it was the first time I’ve felt cold since summer started.
Weather: high 71F, low 52F.
Playlist: Demi Lovato, Bad Bunny, Beethoven
Work Outfit: sweatshirt from Pompeii, Uniqlo distressed jeans, Sebago suede boat shoes, Salomon socks, Ray Ban wayfarers, Ralph Lauren cap, Mois Mont necktie, bracelet from street vendor in Peru.
News:
Tradwives are making more money than you. (NYT)
When this 20’s decade started, a lot of us were wondering if fashion would shift into flapper-gear. Instead, the tradwife has seemed to cut through mid-decade in, whose “trollish genius is to beat us at our own dress-up game”, says the New York Times. Tradwives market a modern take on “stay home and raise the kids” vibe, which has turned into a war for the rights on the aesthetics of domesticity. Who gets them, ‘the post-feminist working woman with an eye for home décor or the gender-fundamentalist housewife’?
Hannah Neeleman, mid-30’s, started her career as a pageant model to pay for Julliard, and having amassed an Instagram following of 10M, leverages her social media presence as co-CEO of her estate, Ballerina Farm. The mother of 8(!) self-describes as “a lover of God and all things butter”, adding “I grew up thinking that’s what happens when you become an adult, you start a family and start a business”.
What’s interesting is that although Neeleman fits the model of tradwife, she doesn’t ascribe to the term, saying ‘it’s not quite her’. Instead she makes a hell of a lot of money from it, selling Ballerina Farm merch, meat products, and radish gingham aprons.
What’s thrilling about this debate is that it’s exactly the kind of debate we could see play out on Sex and the City, where Miranda might protest over brunch that women should not succumb to cottagecore. Still, where brat was revelry, tradwife is the reaction of a longing for that curl up with a book, a blanket, and a cup of tea moment that we love about fall.You may have already heard, but the Harris Walz merch is deer-hunting core. (Glamour)
The “Harris Walz” camo hat with orange letters sold out within 30 minutes of being listed online on the campaign merch online store (3,000 hats were made available and sold for $40). By this month, $1 million worth of campaign merch has been sold. While the camo moment is supposed to make you blend in, I can’t help but think that having presidential campaign merch overall is a little gaudy. Perhaps the most gaudy of them all though, the one that takes the trophy for gaudy-ness, is Trump’s MAGA gold high-top sneakers.
Vogue’s Political Correspondent, and politics biggest nepo-baby, Jack Schlossberg, gave a speech on Day 2 of the DNC. (Vogue)
The Yale and Harvard educated journalist, took the stage last night in Chicago to compare Harris to his grandfather John F. Kennedy. As you may have heard, his uncle Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is running for president as an Independent, and about to drop out from the race, claiming he was pushed out by Democrats. The NYT reported he’s planning to endorse Trump.
A stripper, an evening at the Ritz, and a lost boyfriend. (NYT)
Dive into the annals of a tricky relationship between a stripper and the guy who said, “It’s cool to date a stripper.”
OOTD (street style edition):
Sac du Jour, Saint Laurent ($3300) // Sleek Bow Slingbacks, Stuart Weitzman ($350), Lemlem Abira Tunic, J.Crew ($255) // Jewelry: Gold Chain Bracelet, Saint Laurent ($650), Kate Spade Shoulder Bag ($348).
At 7 p.m. it was time to go home.
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