On My Mind: Museum Merch and Zip-Up Nikes
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I’m trying to be less of a laptop goblin this spring. I’ve been dutifully breaking in theseperfect hard-denim jeans from Icon. They are extremely high-waisted and so tight that I have to wear them in increments — an hour at first, then a break, and then another hour. I wore them to the pub with a friend the other night and was delighted with my progress until I realized the toilets were up a steep flight of stairs. I creaked up the steps one by one. Elsewhere, I threw my grotty pink suede Gazelles into the washing machine to freshen them up — a quick 30-minute cycle, and they were the cleanest they’ve been since I bought them eight years ago. On the topic of skin care, I’ve fished my NuFace out of the bathroom cabinet, bought two types of face masks (one moisturizing, one brightening), and even started testing amelasma-reducing vitamin C serumfor theBeauty Brief. An aside — I need posing lessons; while taking weekly update photos of my melasma fading, I increasingly find myself making expressions similar to a haunted doll. I slackedbeauty editor Crystal Martinfor some advice, but she just laughed. The de-goblinification doesn’t stop there — I suggested to my book club that we read Olga Tokarczuk’sDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Deadthis month. I’m tucking into that at bedtime, rather than watching 45-minute grocery-haul vlogs on YouTube. The end result? Well, it’s too soon to tell, but my hope is that I will shed the carapace of this winter and stride forth into spring refreshed, renewed, and not quite so full of brain rot. If not, there is always season two ofDoctor Odysseyto look forward to.
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Here’s everything else I’ve seen recently …
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It was Mother’s Day in the U.K. last weekend. I got two perfect gifts — a Miffy tee and a giant 5 p.m. feast at our local Turkish restaurant.
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We spend a lot of time at theYoung V&A at the moment,so I picked up this exhibition poster the last time we went. Gonna frame it and hang it in the kitchen.
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In other museum news, the cap fromThe Faceexhibition at the National Portrait Galleryis the hottest piece of merch in London. It’s so popularthat it’s sold outonline (you could probably swing by the gift shop in hope, though). I prefer the Kylie tee.
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My almost-3-year-old has had a growth spurt in her … torso? All her leggings are fine on the legs but now too short around her waist. I bought a flurry of options from Mini Rodini, some on sale, some secondhand. I know they’re expensive, but they hold their resale value well, and I like that I can rely on them to be decently high-waisted.
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I will gab to anyone who will listen about Rita Ora’s hair-care line. It is fantastic — I’m on my second bottle. I havefine, bleached, oily hair— and I prefer it to Crown Affair. It’s well priced, and a bottle will last the better part of six months.
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I’ve been testing out a cloudlikewool mattress topperfrom Piglet in Bed for the past few months. I Slacked Amelia Jerden, our sleep writer, effusively: “I don’t like a marshmallow-soft bed. However, this topper makes my perfectly firm mattress into a cloud that I lie on top of, rather than sink into. My husband — who was incredibly ambivalent about this topper — didn’t want to take it off to put it on our guest mattress. ‘Why should they get it, when we want it,’ he said.”
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One of my most stylish friends has ditched her Salomons in favor of these zip-up Nikes. She has them in all black.Kinda snoafer-y!
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