LAST WEEK I came across a thought-provoking quote by David Cain about work:
"But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours ... but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work."
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P WAS telling me about a terrible tragedy involving an uber-wealth couple who had it all. He was in real estate, and she was an lifestyle influencer who ran an Instagram account showcasing their vast wealth, traipsing between Manhattan and the Hamptons, and their home in Miami.
Have you been watching the Olympics? We saw Nadal lose today, which was disappointing. While we haven't caught many events, we did watch the opening ceremonies on Friday night, which somehow feels like a million years ago now for some reason.
I CAN’T remember the last time I was excited for a runway collection. Perhaps it was the pandemic, with its cancelled shows and digital presentations, that dampened my enthusiasm for fashion. But the Carven Spring 2024 Ready-to-Wear collection, by British designer Louise Trotter, has changed that.
THE TENNIS is on (as of today) and by some miracle, Emma is back on the grass. The Euros are still on, and I don’t really believe that I was meant to be watching this much sport. It will be a relief when it’s all over (the football, that is), but I am looking forward to the Wimbledon finals.
When we first launched our Substack, we used our current name but quickly abandoned it, focusing instead on TIG for over a year. In August of last year, we created a new Substack under a different name, only to realize we already had an existing one that readers were discovering.
WE USED to have a series here featuring a compilation of the things we loved in the past week, but it fell away about two years ago.
In the most recent instalment of our weekly newsletter, we shared these Pleated Barrel-Leg Chinos, and they were so popular, we thought we might post them here as well.
RECENTLY read an engaging book about the skin. In one particularly interesting section, the author described a colleague who had travelled to fashionable locations around the world to observe social behaviour.
This pink and marble bathroom that we found on Pinterest was the catalyst for this summery collage, filled with the things in our shopping cart at this moment, from a pair of handcrafted silk mesh mules in off-white to a delicate scallop shell charm, an engraved compact mirror and more…
A little glimpse of a typical London summer: fancy negronis on outdoor terraces, sailboats on the Thames, pains au chocolat, and the Tate; slow mornings and all the neighbours’ hydrangeas...
WE DID a survey at our Weekly Newsletter a while back and a longtime reader left a comment saying, “I began reading This is Glamorous back in 2009! It was everything a blog could be: glamorous, romantic, dreamy, and chic.
ON FRIDAY WE fit in all of summertime in a day. We pedaled to our favourite pub on the Thames and managed to find a much-coveted seat on the lower dock, right next to the water.
LAST WEEK, I read about a woman who left her life in New Orleans behind and bought a one-way ticket to Paris. She's been roaming France, Italy, and now Scotland for the past two years. Lately, I've been stumbling across quite a few stories of people ditching their usual lives to run away to Europe.
IT IS FINALLY and officially summertime! And it's been really hot. It's also the Euros, so there has been a lot of football on lately and P's been making marvellous food and snacks to go with the matches. As you know, I am a very girlie-girl, but as you may not know, I'm also very easy-going about watching sports with P.
