Tiny Thrills Tuesday: 16 Dec.
Quick fire inspiration to brighten your week, from a trick to avoid spam to street style from Milanese septuagenarians.
In this series, I love bomb you with hot takes making my week a tiny bit more thrilling, from “add to cart” to “food for thought.”
Popovers on the menu — I am a big fan of fur and faux fur jackets and vests because they harken to the “sciura,” which in Italian is a “powerful, affluent, and stylish older woman from Milan known for her impeccable blend of traditional taste and modern elegance” (according to Google’s AI function). I have this vest and wear it night and day, with a friend always asking to feel it and wonder where I got it. Now, this Marie Oliver “Cordelia popover” is on my wishlist as a sleeveless over-the-head alternative. I love the mock neck and want to pair it with everything from button fly jeans and ballet flats to clingy dresses for drinks out. So chic that it closes at the side with leather bows, too. It’s $375 and you get 15% off when you subscribe to the newsletter. Speaking of which…
My secret email address — Do you use this trick, where you have a specific Gmail account just to input when a website insists on capturing your information? Rather than relying on the spam filter or illusive unsubscribe button, try this: create an email address nobody but you uses. It’s perfect to grab that newsletter induced discount or when the kindly checkout lady wants to keep you in the know and you feel too bad to say no.
Fire it up — Charleston seems to be having a surge (resurgence?) in book stores with the recent additions of “The Archive” and “Sweeter Than Fiction.” Both are aimed to women readers, the former a dramatic and moody cappuccino bar featuring “dark academia” and the latter a candy land of rom-com and beach reads stacked against pop art stickers and canvas totes. For me, once I finish my current read, I’m going to charge up the ole’ Kindle and load it up with Conform and Mean Moms. I love holding a paper bound book, but I also love how the Kindle tells you how many more pages and minutes of reading are left to the chapter and novel. It makes me feel kind of competitive and I find I read faster!
So nice I bought it twice — These navy pants are a wardrobe hero, coming in off the bench when I need something polished but wearable, neither denim nor trousers. The hidden side zipper means the waist drawstring can remain less bunchy than otherwise, and that deep squid ink blue draws me in. I recently got them in this gorg ivory and was interested to see if the fabric would hold up in a light color. Bingo. They’re just as perfect and I plan to wear mine with a new winter white chunky cashmere sweater. You can size down in the pants and, because I’m just at a loss getting dressed lately, throw in the “sheer alpaca crew neck” sweater in “barley” like I did for a done-and-done outfit.
Lovely chatting with you — This week, you and I had daily chit chats about my happy place Christmas coffee mugs (two for $15), color sandwich outfits, a chartreuse obsession, some sciura worthy finds for under $200 from Mango, and why the leopard print cardigan jacket we nabbed for $50 is perhaps the best animal print rendering I’ve seen. LTK is a fantastic place for me to chat at you because, unlike Instagram, there is no algorithm keeping us apart; if you follow me, you will actually see my videos rather than “suggested content” or ads. How novel for you and thrilling to me. Come join 2,100 gals in the convo.