#114: disappoint me, box gaps & a shoe report
more fashion and music and genera musings
anyway, welcome back (okay, presumptuous of me!!!) to sent from my iphone with love <3
fame is a gun!
fashion girly pop up shoe report
on saturday lily and i went to the pop up of some fashion girlies from tiktok. the clothes were all the style that are very ugly; where capris are king, peacoats are celebrated and grey and black stripes are adored. neutral tones somewhere between dirt and khaki are staples and often offset with a neon pop of colour.
i have watched enough tiktoks recently with beautiful women wearing these ugly clothes that i now, too, think that they are kind of cool, by virtue of the beautiful women wearing them. i don’t know what this trend is called, but please let me know if you do.
when i got there i realised i was dressed the part. it was 25 degrees so i was wearing a white cami, 3/4 cargo shorts and my new tabi kitten heels - a look which in retrospect was probably giving some sort of busted lara croft/ carrie bradshaw amalgamation, but at the time felt sophisticated and interesting.
after flicking through the racks for a bit, finding nothing for less than £38 (the item in question being a raggedy t shirt), but more importantly nothing that i thought would suit me, i started taking notes of the shoes of the shoppers around me.
as a strictly ex sneaker girl, i have now indoctrinated myself to exist at an incredible intersection of capitalism and misogyny where wearing uncomfortable shoes makes me feel glamorous, and are therefore constantly on the hunt for new pedal torture devices. all that is to say, here’s what shoes the tiktok fashion girls are wearing.
the shoe report
nike air rifts (numerous pairs, both in black and white colour ways)
vibrams
loafers (in burgundies and distressed browns)
onitsuka tigers (in a variety of colours - but no yellow)
another pair of tabis (black, flat)
knee high boots (brown)
ballet flats (variety of colours and textures)
ugly shoes foreveer <3
charli
i can’t tell you what exactly it is (i may have been drunk)… but i saw this post and thought… now this is a culture shift. there’s a very 2011 tumblr quality about it, the box gap, the bikini pic from behind, the palm tree. i feel as though we are not far away from the return of dip dye, one teaspoon shorts and white girls throwing up the LA hand sign. something about a recession indicator something something.
disappoint me
i was halfway through listening to disappoint me by nicola dinan when i hit my spotify audiobook limit for the month. on re-examination perhaps not the coolest sentence, but i was really bummed because i was loving it.
max, the main character, lives in simultaneous extremes - she is trans but passing, queer but is in a hetero relationship, a poet but works as legal aid at a tech company, mixed race. the observations are deeply witty and i am lolling aloud frequently. at one point she describes someone she knows as “a poundland arca”. i am really excited for my subscription to renew so i can finish it <3
misc recommendations
i can’t stop listening to fame as a gun. i predict addison will be the fashion girlies halloween costume this year.
i watched louis theroux’s the settlers on sunday night when i was terrifically hungover. it was harrowing. you can watch it on bbc iplayer.
the fade into you cover by eartheater and sega bodega might be the most beautiful, romantic song in the world. chills.
baciiiii xxx
Im obsessed with your pop up report