Hillary I’ve been following you since you launched WWW (I was a college student then) and have continued to follow you ever since. It’s SUCH a delight to see you on this platform! Keep up the great work (and the exceptional recommends - carting alllll of the rare beauty).
Your recs make me so happy. This is the week that my eyes decided they need readers (Caddis rose aviators from a few posts back ✔️) JCrew cashmere is the best weapon against unhinged air conditioning so 🤷🏼♀️ 50% off sounds reasonable to me
I finally ordered the loafers (and rare beauty and did some J.Crew damage)! Your recommendations are always so solid and today was a day for splurging. After two weeks of being on the edge in Southern California I needed a little shopping escape. Thank you!!
Oh I am so excited for you!! The loafers legit changed my life and I it seems that is a universal experience! And hooray for Rare too! I'm truly always pleasantly surprised by how much I like the brand. It's truly a staple.
Returns are bad, they often end up in landfills. It’s part of our culture of waste and we shouldn’t be encouraging a culture of online shopping and returning items.
I just think it normalizes the culture of returns. It’s not just you, I just think it’s important to have it sung from the mountaintops that this is a bad strategy. I’m tired of fashion and fashion culture getting excited for no buys and sustainability for one moment and flip flopping back in the next. I think we need to be careful about what values we reflect.
Are you saying it normalizes because of the title? That's a joke, which I assumed readers would pick up on. If anything, I think the stories I write are trying to help people shop smarter for their closets, budgets, and to have fewer returns. Which is why I give details about sizing and fit, in addition to the details that exist on a retailer's site. And finally, most of the pieces I recommend sell out, which means they're ending up in folks' homes, not landfills.
The whole intro doesn’t read like a joke it just reads flippant. I just don’t think it’s a helpful framing. Where we are at as a culture with the return policy is disgraceful. I blame the companies more than the users. I made a comment because I felt like it’s an important point to make not to get into an argument. I think using returns as an out is a bad idea. I think if one can avoid it then one should. I think in store shopping should be encouraged for experimentation or suggesting alteration or some other form of creative reappropriating of an item that doesn’t make the cut. I think it’s appalling that companies can make so many items that fall short or that it’s a telling sign that we require brick and mortar to determine our needs.
I’m plus sized and companies like JCrew may carry my size but not in store so I have no choice. Same with shoes. I wear an 11 and most brick and mortar stores sell out.
I hear you, the stores often have paltry selections and I’m not suggesting that every online purchase should be avoided, it just bums me out to talk of shopping as if it should be an endless cycle of buying online to try on and ultimately reject and return. I would prefer people in the industry to try to reframe that notion, talk about alternatives. I want stores to be better, I want stores/companies to serve customers better.
I'm a bit no-buy for the last while. I work from home. I'm recovering from back surgery. I was looking to invest in comfy/chewy/baggy joggers. I'm a slave to a cuffed hem! I have 1 perfect pair of joggers I got off Amazon several years ago. I repurchased different colours and I never got a duplicate of the perfect ones they sent first!
i stumbled upon CMFRT. Never heard of it. Don't necessarily understand the differences between styles? I bought L. Hope I don't need to return for XL to get the space I want (in my hips and belly!).
Hillary I’ve been following you since you launched WWW (I was a college student then) and have continued to follow you ever since. It’s SUCH a delight to see you on this platform! Keep up the great work (and the exceptional recommends - carting alllll of the rare beauty).
Ahhh thank you so much that means the world to me!
Thanks for this. Hope this week has been at least slightly better than last week. Sending you, and everyone in LA, good vibes and hugs. 🤍
Thank you!!!
Your recs make me so happy. This is the week that my eyes decided they need readers (Caddis rose aviators from a few posts back ✔️) JCrew cashmere is the best weapon against unhinged air conditioning so 🤷🏼♀️ 50% off sounds reasonable to me
I recently bought the same aviators again, that's how much I love them. I hope they are as good to you as they are to me.
I am so excited for them to arrive.
I finally ordered the loafers (and rare beauty and did some J.Crew damage)! Your recommendations are always so solid and today was a day for splurging. After two weeks of being on the edge in Southern California I needed a little shopping escape. Thank you!!
Oh I am so excited for you!! The loafers legit changed my life and I it seems that is a universal experience! And hooray for Rare too! I'm truly always pleasantly surprised by how much I like the brand. It's truly a staple.
Thanks for the recommendations! I grabbed the Jamie Haller patent leather loafers- they are amazing!! Sending lots of positive vibes to LA.
I'm so glad you love her loafers as much as I do.
Returns are bad, they often end up in landfills. It’s part of our culture of waste and we shouldn’t be encouraging a culture of online shopping and returning items.
I don't know how you could read this and think I was literally encouraging returns.
I just think it normalizes the culture of returns. It’s not just you, I just think it’s important to have it sung from the mountaintops that this is a bad strategy. I’m tired of fashion and fashion culture getting excited for no buys and sustainability for one moment and flip flopping back in the next. I think we need to be careful about what values we reflect.
Are you saying it normalizes because of the title? That's a joke, which I assumed readers would pick up on. If anything, I think the stories I write are trying to help people shop smarter for their closets, budgets, and to have fewer returns. Which is why I give details about sizing and fit, in addition to the details that exist on a retailer's site. And finally, most of the pieces I recommend sell out, which means they're ending up in folks' homes, not landfills.
The whole intro doesn’t read like a joke it just reads flippant. I just don’t think it’s a helpful framing. Where we are at as a culture with the return policy is disgraceful. I blame the companies more than the users. I made a comment because I felt like it’s an important point to make not to get into an argument. I think using returns as an out is a bad idea. I think if one can avoid it then one should. I think in store shopping should be encouraged for experimentation or suggesting alteration or some other form of creative reappropriating of an item that doesn’t make the cut. I think it’s appalling that companies can make so many items that fall short or that it’s a telling sign that we require brick and mortar to determine our needs.
I’m plus sized and companies like JCrew may carry my size but not in store so I have no choice. Same with shoes. I wear an 11 and most brick and mortar stores sell out.
I hear you, the stores often have paltry selections and I’m not suggesting that every online purchase should be avoided, it just bums me out to talk of shopping as if it should be an endless cycle of buying online to try on and ultimately reject and return. I would prefer people in the industry to try to reframe that notion, talk about alternatives. I want stores to be better, I want stores/companies to serve customers better.
I'm a bit no-buy for the last while. I work from home. I'm recovering from back surgery. I was looking to invest in comfy/chewy/baggy joggers. I'm a slave to a cuffed hem! I have 1 perfect pair of joggers I got off Amazon several years ago. I repurchased different colours and I never got a duplicate of the perfect ones they sent first!
i stumbled upon CMFRT. Never heard of it. Don't necessarily understand the differences between styles? I bought L. Hope I don't need to return for XL to get the space I want (in my hips and belly!).