🍸 OFF-MENU 010 🍸: A Sudden Fit of Candor

What I'm loving this week: RIP Polly Mellen, elbow-length leather opera gloves, and the Luigi Mangione of it all

Hello, sailor. Welcome back to OFF-MENU, a Friday round-up of the seven things I’ve been thinking about this past week, from oyster rings to Robert Altman’s Nashville, along with new things I’ve discovered (as recommended by you!).

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It’s good to be back. NOW, for some of the things that have been on top of mind this week:

#1: Mid-2010s Grandma Florals

Do you know what I’m talking about? EXHIBIT A. Those ditsy, fin-de -iècle Laura Ashley florals that got really popular in the ‘80s by people in their 80s, and then, somewhere between 2012 and 2014, found a new life on the racks of Charlotte Russe and Wet Seal. (I know this because I was a tweenage girl flicking through the racks of Charlotte Russe and Wet Seal.) They’re hard to describe — they’re made to look as vintage as vintage can be, faded, hazy, usually pressed in corduroy or chalky denim. I think they’re due for a non-Reformation reappraisal. Might you consider these darling Sézane trousers? Or these vintage Guess floral shorts that I would’ve worn with razor-torn tights and Dr. Martens?