When a rare 50% off Glossier discount was leaked a few weeks ago, social media went into a veritable meltdown. Friends feverishly passed the code around Whatsapp group chats; friends of friends retweeted it to their followers on Twitter. The code in question, aptly titled ‘friendsofglossier’, got you 50% off everything at checkout – unheard…
Fashion
Buy Now, Pay Later: the dark side of credit schemes
It is estimated that £4 in every £100 spent in the UK is now carried out via a buy now, pay later scheme and it’s not difficult to understand why. The quick and easy checkout process is, of course, incredibly convenient. For those unable to pay large sums upfront it is a way of making…
Fashion
The Velour Renaissance: Juicy Couture’s inclusive reworking of the Y2K aesthetic
It is around 1 am and owing to my boyfriend and I’s terrible lockdown-induced sleep schedule, we are wide awake, watching television. Our programme is buffering, as it does every night, my laptop practically huffing and puffing with the effort of trying to get things up and running. Our wifi isn’t terrible – not at…
Fashion
Influencers, Gossip Forums and Press Scrutiny: the Modern Culture of Bullying
On a dark corner of the internet, individuals who find themselves increasingly frustrated with influencers gather to share their grievances. Under the guise of anonymity, these individuals vent and unleash the rage that has been seething within them. Sometimes the discussions are productive, picking apart questionable decisions, words used or comments made that they find…
Arts, Venue
Art that makes us love ourselves: portrait of Bunny Yeager
There is a particular self-portrait of a bikini-clad Bunny Yeager (Yeager being the pin-up model-cum-photographer responsible for that 1955 Bettie Page Santa hat Playboy cover) perched on a stool on a beach, head thrown back in glee, which never fails to supply me with a healthy dose of self-confidence. At first glance, the image seems…
Fashion
Ode to the nightie
Pyjamas. Jim-jams. Jammies. Or, if you prefer Cockney Rhyming Slang, Simon Schamas. Whatever term you opt for, the practice of wearing anything to bed at all is a fairly modern phenomenon. It is surmised that designated sleepwear was largely non-existent before the early sixteenth century. Up until then, men and women alike slept starkers –…
Fashion
The long lost brands of yore
There is something rather ghostly about sartorial memories; our recollections of cherished items that have long since been passed on or given away assume a sort of uncanniness when remembered. They belonged to a past version of our self; they would no longer fit us could we access them; their exact colour or texture is…
Travel
How to eat your way around Norwich
My stomach and I have had the pleasure of munching and sipping various food and beverages at many Norwich establishments over the course of my time here. I look upon the map of Norwich as a sort of tasting map now – areas associated with memories of savoured meals gone by. Here is a glimpse…
Fashion
Learning to heal: tattoos and me
I have always found it hard to describe my relationship to my tattoos. For a long time, though they were carved into me, embedded deeply in my skin to adorn my body for evermore, I struggled to articulate how it felt on a personal level to be decorated by ink in this way. I felt…
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