anything goes with emma chamberlain - fur coats, snake print, and lace, trendy or timeless [video]

Episode Date: February 20, 2025

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You know what? It's pathetic how addicted I am to YouTube shorts. It's pathetic. Okay? It's pathetic because I've taken extreme measures to manage my social media addiction and yet somehow I found a way to get addicted to YouTube shorts. Okay? I got two phones. One phone that has all of the social media apps downloaded that I keep in my office on the floor for moments when I need to post on social media. And then I have another phone that has no social media apps downloaded on it except for YouTube, because I have a soft spot for YouTube, that I carry around all the time that is used mainly for utility purposes, right?

And for a long time, this worked for me. My social media addiction was cured. But then I discovered YouTube Shorts. And over the last few months, my addiction to YouTube Shorts has now just completely erased all of the work I've done to manage my social media addiction. So yes, I did have to delete YouTube off of my phone

because I could not go to the bathroom without scrolling on YouTube shorts. I could not go to sleep without watching at least a few YouTube shorts beforehand. Like I fully became addicted. And so I had to delete it off of my phone I'm talking about my main phone like the phone the healthy phone that doesn't have all the social media apps on it It's still downloaded on the unhealthy phone, but I don't go on that one

So on my main phone, I got nothing. Okay YouTube shorts was the last chance I had to scroll. Or so I thought. I already found something else to scroll on. But this is a little bit healthier. And I don't think I'm gonna become addicted to this, but it allows me to scroll in a way that is mentally stimulating. And when I'm on the toilet, I open this app and I look.

This is the app Tag Walk. Tag Walk is an app that basically just shows you runway collections, like fashion runway collections. It's actually really an incredible app. You can look up a fashion show that happened 10 years ago from a certain designer and you can find it on this app and look through it. There's professional images, like you get to see everything, right? And so when I'm on the toilet, when I'm laying in bed, exhausted,

needing a little bit more dopamine from a scroll before I go to sleep, instead of going on YouTube Shorts Now, I go on this app Tag Walk and look at current runway collections. At a certain point, I'm going to run out of current runway collections to look at, and I'm going to have to go back into the archive. But there are so many runway shows happening all the time that there's a lot of stuff to look at. And I love analyzing that.

It's like, I'm actually having an incredible time. And I really don't think it's toxic. Like I actually think this is a valid replacement for YouTube shorts that is not unhealthy. Like I think I'm equally as satisfied from this activity, but I don't think it's destroying me in my attention span like YouTube Shorts did. Short form content is just not good for the brain.

It's over stimulating it Causes anxiety. I'm already anxious the last thing I need is Short form content in my day-to-day routine. So I'm loving this Okay, and I've been loving this for like the past week. We'll see how long it lasts But in this last week, I've consumed more runway fashion than I probably ever have in my life. And not only am I having an incredible time, but it's exciting because I'm noticing trends. Like, I'm seeing things happen. You know, when you're observing every

single runway show, you do start to notice the trends and the patterns and the things that are clearly in right now. I mean, I've gone to Fashion Week many times and I don't see nearly as much stuff because I can only physically go to so many shows. Sitting on the toilet and scrolling on Tag Walk, the app, has exposed me to more fashion than I've ever been exposed to in my life. And I'm having an incredible time. Anyway, let me get to the point.

Okay? Over the last week, I've really gotten caught up in current fashion. And I've noticed a lot of trends. And I want to analyze them with you. I want to analyze the trends that are on the runway now and discuss whether I think they're trendy or timeless. And this is actually a series here on Anything Goes called Trendy or Timeless where we take fashion and discuss together whether we think it's trendy or timeless. And you can't tell me because I can't hear you.

So it's sort of actually just one-sided. I'm just telling you if I think it's trendy or timeless. But I'd like to think that it's a conversation. It's not. It's one-sided, but it feels to me like a conversation. Without further ado, this is Trendy or Timeless. This is what I've been seeing on the runway. Let's get into it. This episode is brought to you by Roots. If you're a sweats connoisseur like me and looking to up

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So now the top is like a tube top, but the top of the tube top is actually where the neck of the shirt would normally be. Okay. And then the arms are tied around the waist. Okay. That's one example. Another example would be a shirt that has folded shirts, sewed onto the front. Okay, imagine you're at a retail store

and you see a bunch of shirts folded up on the shelf. Now imagine you were to take that shirt that's folded and sew that onto the front of a shirt. I've seen that. I've seen, you know, shirts that have another shirt sewn on the front of it, and it's kind of falling off. I'm just seeing a lot of this, like, weird deconstructed shirts, shirts reimagined. Okay, I'm seeing this everywhere.

I saw this at least in three of the recent shows that I looked at. To me, this is not timeless. Okay. This is absolutely not timeless. Do I think that it's sometimes interesting and cool looking? Yes. But I have a really hard time with something that truly serves no purpose. Right? Like, okay. something that truly serves no purpose, right?

Like, okay, so when the shirt is being worn improperly like this, or, you know, there's a double shirt element happening, like a shirt sewn onto another shirt, it's not making the shirt easier to wear. It doesn't make the shirt more attractive, right? Like it's not serving any purpose at all. It's not as comfortable, it's not as functional of a garment, and it actually doesn't look better. Like I think an alternative to

this that is timeless would be like layering three shirts, but wearing them properly. Okay, so an example of that would be like wearing a white long sleeve t-shirt with a beige short sleeve t-shirt over that with like a dark gray tank top over that. Okay, you're wearing three shirts at once. You can see that there's a lot of shirts going on, but it fits good.

You know, it looks clean. It looks cool. In fact, I love that. Like, that's something I really love right now is layering a fuck ton of shirts. And the only challenge with it is that sometimes it's a bit uncomfortable if you're not layering the right kind of shirts.

You need to make sure that things aren't too tight and the base layer is tight and then the middle layer is a little less tight and the top layer is a little less tight. It's not the easiest thing to do, right? But when done right and when you have the right-fitting pieces in your closet for it, it looks cool and it's actually quite comfortable. I think that that's great. But the idea of like sewing a shirt onto another shirt and it's like draping off and it looks kind of confusing and weird, it's not flattering. It's not structurally interesting. Like I haven't seen it done in a way that looks

really good. It tends to look a bit awkward. And so I don't think it's timeless. I think it's probably exciting maybe every few years. This is not something I know as a fact. I'm just assuming. It probably becomes a trend every few years to deconstruct and reimagine the shirt, deconstruct and reimagine the pants. Taking the mundane and deconstructing and making it into something brand new, using duplicates of itself to make it interesting. I get that. I get the vision.

I bet it happens every few years. But it seems to be back right now with tops and I'm just not obsessed. I'm not obsessed with it. And I do think it's trendy. I don't think it's going to last much longer. I cannot say this for sure, but I bet it comes in every 10 years. Like I bet 10 years ago, this was on the runway. And I bet 10 years before that, this was on the runway. And in between, it was not. That's my guess. I could be totally fucking wrong. So do not take that as fact. And I have no clue what I'm talking about. But I bet that this is something that just comes in like every 10 years when designers are feeling like they want to reinvent the basic, you know?

Okay, next, I have been seeing so many fur coats. It felt like every runway show that I looked at had at least one fur coat. And even the shows that didn't have full fur coats, at least had fur details. Fur around the neck, fur around the wrists, little fur details. I do think fur is timeless for the most part. I don't think there's any point in history over the last how many years where fur looked bad. I think there are times when fur looks bad, you know, if it's like a bright pink fur coat, that's obviously not timeless, but like a simple neutral fur coat,

you kind of can't go wrong. I mean, I'm personally not super into it. It's not really my personal style, but I think when it comes to classic neutral fur, I think it's kind of timeless, I do. Majority of the coats that I saw were pretty neutral, but I did see some more extreme ones. Some leopard print, some perhaps in weird colors.

I'm not remembering perfectly, but because majority of them were neutral and timeless, I'm just gonna say overall that the fur coat is timeless. Because I think, yes, it can be not timeless, but it's because it's deviating from the classic, right? And majority of what I'm seeing right now is classic. So I don't know. You probably won't catch me

wearing a fur coat anytime soon. I mean, if my stylist, Jared and I decide, wait a minute, we wanna wear a fur coat. Don't judge, okay, because we're unpredictable when we're together and come up with weird ideas. But when it comes to my own wardrobe, when it comes to what I'm wearing on a daily basis, it's not a fur coat, it's just not. But I do think that they're timeless. Okay, next. This is a

very oddly specific trend so just stick with me. Semi-realistic photographic faces and bodies printed onto clothing. Okay? Like a dress that looks like it's see-through and you can see the body through it. You know, a shirt that is printed in such a way that it looks like what a person wearing a cardigan would look like. Does that make sense? Like, okay, like the shirt looks like a 3D printed cardigan

with like the folds in it and like with the buttons sort of bent a little bit as though like a body is wearing the cardigan, but it's like 3D printed onto like a mesh shirt, okay? Or another example would be like a face, like somebody's face like printed onto a garment, very large, like very large face, like printed. I've seen quite a few variations,

but I would say the most popular is almost like, maybe we should call it X-ray clothing, where it's like a 3D printed naked body printed onto, you know, a shirt or a dress. So it almost looks like the piece of see-through and you can see body, but it's just printed on. That's the most common and I saw that time and time again, but there were other versions of this too

that I feel like are similar enough that I consider them to be the same. But that was the most common one. I think this is cool. I think it's smart. I think it's interesting. I think it's interesting. I think it's edgy. I think it's kind of tongue in cheek.

It's like a bit silly sometimes. It sort of can either fall under like cool, edgy, badass, almost like smart ass. Like it kind of has one of two vibes. It's either kind of cool, edgy, smart ass, or it's silly, funny, sort of sweet, quirky. And I quite like it. I'm not obsessed with it.

It's not like something I'm passionate about, but I like it. But I do not think it's timeless. I don't. Particularly the nude body, like the naked body, trend where it's like, it looks like an X-ray is showing through the clothes. And that I think is trendy because it's not like you can wear that everywhere.

Do you know what I'm saying? Like, it's not super functional. And it is very edgy in like a statement. And I think for that reason, it's just trendy. I also think it's trendy too because I feel like modesty as well kind of comes in and out of style. And it's definitely not like a modest choice, right? When it comes to bodies sort of being printed onto clothing

that are not nude, okay, like the example I gave of this sweater, where it's almost like you took a photo of somebody wearing a sweater and then printed that onto a shirt. I think that that's a bit less trendy than the nude trend, but I think what's truly timeless is the sweater itself, right? I think the concept of printing one type of garment onto another, making a long-sleeved t-shirt look like a long-sleeved cardigan, I think that sort of concept is a bit silly, is a bit tongue-in-cheek,

and I think even though it's, you know, maybe a bit more wearable than the nude trend, I think the fact that it is sort of a novelty, it is sort of like this sort of tongue-in-cheek, almost humorous sort of choice, I think the problem with a joke is that if you tell it over and over again, it gets old. And I think that's what happens with that. You know, it's funny the first few times you see it. Like, oh my God, I thought you were wearing a sweater, but then I just walked up closer and it's actually like a mesh shirt.

Like, that's so weird, like, because it was printed on, that's so cool. That's funny the first few times, but the more you see it, the less exciting it is. And then you're like, eh, I'm good. And then the last example would be just realistic prints of stuff on clothing. And the example I gave was of faces because that's what I saw. I don't know how I feel about this. I definitely don't think that it's timeless.

I think it's a bit odd. Like there's something sort of weird and unsettling about looking at a piece of clothing and it just has like a big face on it or something. I mean, let's even take it a step further beyond the runway. Like let's say there was a big realistic image of a dog on a garment or there was a big realistic image of an apple on a garment. That actually sounds kind of cool. You know that actually might just be so odd and unusual the concept of like printing something realistic and large on a shirt. That actually might be so odd that it's timeless if that makes sense. Like it's such a unique idea. It's so weird that it might always

sort of be intriguing. So maybe that's the most timeless of all of these examples in this sort of category of semi-realistic photographs and prints on clothes. But all the garments that I saw that had these big realistic looking photographs of people, I was like, that is one of the weirder things I've ever seen. I don't think I love it. I don't think I love it. It weirdly is so odd that it's almost like timeless. I don't know. I'm confused by it. Moving on. I've been seeing so many bod suits worn without pants. So like almost like a leotard. But I've seen them in many different forms.

There's infinite body suits on the runway right now like this. Some of them are long sleeves, some of them are short sleeves, some of them have cutouts, some of them are lace, some of them are stretchy, some of them are like, there are so many, but I'm just seeing a lot of sort of body suits where it almost looks like a one piece swimsuit of some sort going down the runway. I find it fascinating because again, you know, this is not a trend that you can actually go out in wear, you know, you can't go to work, you

can't babysit your little cousin, you can't go to work, you can't babysit your little cousin, you can't go to church, you can't even really go to the grocery store in one of these leotards sort of body suit, sort of one piece swimsuit looking pieces. However, you can layer a body suit. You can wear a body suit with a skirt. You can wear a bodysuit with pants. On the runway, it's being shown alone, but I imagine that maybe they're doing that to just showcase the design of the bodysuit and they actually would recommend their customer to wear it with pants, of course, because that's kind of how you would have to wear it. But I don't know, I think the

concept of sort of a one-piece, leotard sort of body suit, I think that is a timeless concept. And a lot of the ones that I saw were simple and versatile and classic, like nothing too crazy. Versatile and classic like nothing too crazy So I would go ahead and say that the bodysuit is timeless however, I do not Love a bodysuit like in reality when it comes to styling a bodysuit For day-to-day life. I don't love a bodysuit. Okay number one. I find them to be very uncomfortable number two, I find them to be very uncomfortable. Number two, I don't actually like the look

of a shirt being tight. Like if I'm, okay, so like if I'm styling the bodysuit with pants because that's how you would have to style the bodysuit for it to be socially acceptable, I don't like the look of like a tight shirt tucked into my pants for the most part. I actually like the look of a a tight shirt tucked into my pants for the most part. I actually like the look of a slightly looser shirt where you can see the bottom of the waist of the shirt. Perhaps it's hitting at

a very flattering point where, you know, on the waist of your pant. And I like that. I don't love tucking in a shirt. And even worse, I don't love a bodysuit where the shirt is flat to the body. I just don't like how that looks. I actually think I probably like a bodysuit best being worn by itself with no pants, like a leotard. Like that's actually the coolest way to wear it, I think. But again, that's not really socially acceptable. But I kind of think sort of the pants-less trend that we've seen mainly in high fashion,

not as much in real life, over the past few years is fun and exciting. And I've participated in it a few times. I went to a runway show probably a year ago now, wearing sort of what I'm describing right now, like kind of like a bodysuit, a leotard almost, with no pants. And I absolutely loved it. I also like probably a little over a year ago wore no pants to an event. I wore sort of like a leather underwear to a red carpet

event. That doesn't really, doesn't really fall under the category of bodysuit, but it does fall under the category of no pants. And I quite enjoyed it. I thought it looked cool. I thought it was fun. But on both of those occasions, I'm wearing those outfits in very specific environments where I can wear whatever I want. Cause that's part of the point of the event is like get dressed up in fashion trends from the runway for this event. Right? So it's a very hyper specific, like if I, you know, didn't go to those events,

I would not have an opportunity to wear those types of looks. So I enjoy it. I enjoy a leotard, a bodysuit by itself for those types of rare occasions. But again, on a day-to-day basis, I don't get to wear that and I don't like the way it looks with pants. So like, I'm just not a fan. But I think the concept is timeless.

I think the concept of not wearing pants with it is not timeless because again, I don't think there will ever come a time where it's socially acceptable to go to school in a leotard unless you're a gymnast and you have gymnastics practice at your school. You know what I'm saying? And even then, I think your teacher is going to tell you to put sweatpants over it, you know what I'm saying? Like it's just, it's never going to be normal, I don't think. So yeah, the like whole pants-less trend I think is not timeless, but I think, yeah, a bodysuit itself, sure, it's timeless. Okay, next, lace. I saw so much lace on the red carpet. Lace is just the textile of the season it seems to me. I feel like every day when I wake up, I love lace a little bit more. But I just felt delighted every single time I saw lace on the runway. I was seeing lace tights, lace bodysuits, slash lace leotards,

if you will, lace gloves, lace tops, lace leggings, like lace everywhere, lace was happening. Lace could not be avoided. Everywhere I looked, I saw lace. Not only do I know that Lace is timeless, okay, I don't think it's up for debate. I think it is absolutely timeless. I think its recent applications are even more timeless. I don't think I saw one bad use of Lace at all. I looked at 50 runway shows. Not one use of lace was bad. I liked it in every single application. Now, there are times when I don't like lace. Don't get me wrong. In fact, up until recently, I didn't love lace. I really didn't love it. I was often disappointed when I saw it. It was often used in ways that I disliked. But as time has gone on, I've seen more and more uses of lace that I love.

And then over the last week, seeing it be used in so many beautiful ways on the runway, now I'm obsessed with lace, I love lace. Where's the lace in my closet? I don't have any, that's fine. If I find something beautiful that's lace, I might pick it up, but I'm not searching for it. I'll let it find me.

I am sort of manifesting a pair of little lace gloves, though. Because I saw some lace gloves on the runway, and I was like, that is really good. Also lace tights, though. I really enjoy lace tights. Personally, I'm less interested in like a lace bodysuit, even like a lace top. I really like lace being like a subtle detail, like a subtle texture addition. Like yeah, lace tights, lace socks, lace gloves, little peeps of lace here and there.

Perhaps like a lace turtleneck that could be layered underneath other clothing, that could be kind of interesting too. But I prefer it more as like a subtle detail. But either way, I even love it when it's a main detail. I just think it's great and I'm into it right now. And I just thought it was delightfully done time and time again.

So I guess in conclusion, lace is timeless and I'm manifesting Some lace gloves. I briefly pause this episode of anything goes to let you know that this episode is brought to you by Squarespace You know when a website looks insanely good and actually works. That's probably Squarespace It's how you build something beautiful that isn't just for show, it's function too. Their new design intelligence feature makes creating a website super easy, combining amazing design with AI to help you build something that feels so you. And with Squarespace payments, you can set up shop and get paid instantly. No stress. Start your free trial at squarespace.com. And when you're ready, use squarespace.com slash Emma for 10% off your first website or domain. Now let's get back to the episode.

Speaking of lace, I saw a lot of lingerie on the runway. Like lingerie being styled, I feel like, as clothing that you could wear out. I think lingerie itself is timeless. The classic sort of, here we go again with the lace, you know, lace, silk, underwear, you know, lace, silk, bra, bras in shapes that are classic and sort of beautiful in a way. classic and sort of beautiful in a way. The bras that I wear when I really have to wear a bra are absolutely hideous, okay? But they do the trick, right?

They're smoothing, they smooth everything out, but they're not sexy by any means. They're absolutely hideous. I feel honestly, I don't feel hot when I wear them. So, you know, when we think of these bras that are on the runway, it's like a beautiful bra, right? Not as comfortable and definitely doesn't look as good under clothes, but it's beautiful on its own. You know, it has underwire and boning that like makes it look really structured

and you know, beautiful and like, again, you know, the materials they're using, lace and silk, it's really luxurious. And then the colors tend to be classic, white, black, red. I mainly saw white and black. But yeah, that is timeless. I think that type of lingerie is timeless. To be honest with you, I've never owned lingerie.

To me, it gets in the way. That's my opinion. To me, it gets in the way. I prefer less stuff going on. You know what I'm saying? Like, oh my God, I'm about to TMI so much. People are gonna judge me, and they're gonna be like, Emma, do you forget that people listen to this?

Yes, I do forget, because I'm just alone in my office right now, so I'm just saying shit. I, I didn't wear underwear for like three years, and I fucking loved it, okay? And no, it wasn't some sort of sexual thing. It was just, I liked the feeling. In retrospect, I have no clue how I did that,

because it seems so uncomfortable to me now because now I wear underwear again. I wear granny panties now. Full ass, full ass covered granny panties. I avoid wearing a bra as much as possible. My point of this is, lingerie to me is like constricting. I feel constricted by that. It's not comfortable. It's not sexy. It's not fun. It doesn't feel good, it's getting in the way and like, I'd rather just be nude. Like, do you know what I'm saying? Anyway, I went on a little TMI tangent, which happens sometimes, but let's go back to the point, okay?

Styling lingerie is in, okay? Styling it as clothing, not as lingerie. For wearing out, is this trendy or timeless? It's trendy. The concept of wearing undergarments as clothing, I think inevitably is trendy because again, I think that modesty goes in and out of style. I think there are periods of time when it's more trendy to be sort of risque. And I think that's fun.

Like, there's nothing wrong with that. But I think being risque ends up feeling like what's fun about it a lot of times, I'm not saying all the time, but I think a lot of the times what's fun about being risque is that it's edgy. It's going against the grain. And then at a certain point when it becomes trendy and everyone's doing it, I think then it's like, wait, I don't really feel like not as really drawn to this anymore. And then, you know, it kind of falls out of

favor for a bit. And then it comes back in. Although I'm thinking about it now and I'm like, because lingerie itself, right, like just lingerie in general is timeless. Like the design of it is timeless. I am sort of conflicted on like whether or not just wearing it is timeless. Like even, even though it's sort of risque and that goes in and out of style because lingerie is timeless. Is it sort of timeless? I don't know. I'm kind of conflicted. I'm going to go ahead and say, no, I'm going to go ahead and say that the actual design of lingerie itself is timeless,

but styling it and having it exposed is not. And I'm not fully sold on that, but that's what I'm gonna say. Okay, moving on. I saw quite a few 60s mod patterns, okay? Kind of like quirky retro looking patterns. quite a few 60s mod patterns, okay? Kind of like quirky retro looking patterns. Like if you were to look up on Google right now, quirky retro patterns,

you would see a bunch of 60s mod patterns. And I saw a handful of those on the runway. I saw it enough times to be like, to me that's a trend. I'm seeing a trend here. I do not Think the patterns are timeless every few years They're cool again, and they're in again, but then so quickly they're out and

Wearing a 60s mod pattern looks like a Halloween costume It looks like you're dressing up like a 60s mod girl, like you're being Twiggy for Halloween or something. Twiggy, the iconic 60s mod model queen. I don't know. I do not think that it's timeless. In fact, I think it's one of the only elements of the 60s mod aesthetic that is not timeless. I think the 60s mod silhouettes, you know, sort of boxier clothing, you know, simple silhouettes, timeless. But the 60s mod patterns, I'm sorry, not timeless.

I think a lot of patterns are trendy. Not all, there are a few patterns that I think are timeless. I think patterns definitely come in and out of style. Patterns will have their moment. But I think that there are some that even when they're not having their moment, are not repulsive. Let me give you an example of another trendy pattern and then I'll give you an example of a timeless pattern. Okay. Another trendy pattern would be checkerboard print. When it's in, it's all anybody wants. And then the second it's out, it's actually repulsive. And even looking at it will make anybody who remotely likes fashion or cares about it, nauseous, nausea.

Like I loved checkerboard print in 2019. By 2021, it made me sick. Now, some timeless patterns would be stripes, polka dots, plaid. I mean, it depends on the plaid. There's definitely some plaids that are not timeless, but I would say like classic plaid. I'm sorry, you can't go wrong. That's timeless.

Those are a few examples. Those always work. You can always make those work. I mean, I predict that stripes and polka dots this year are going to be massive. I think that they're going to be the patterns of the year. Like when we look back on 2025, we're gonna remember polka dots, we're gonna remember stripes. But I think that they're timeless.

Plaid, come on, it's plaid. You know what I'm saying? Like it's plaid. You can't hate it. You either hate it or you don't. Like plaid was really trendy a few years ago and I really loved it then. And then it sort of maybe went out of style a little bit.

I still love plaid, you know? Whereas like checkerboard print, I really loved it. And then I fucking hated it. I don't know. Anyway, back to 60s mod sort of retro-y patterns. Hell nah. Okay, next. I cannot tell you how many pairs of flip-flops

I saw on the runway. It was unbelievable. how many pairs of flip-flops I saw on the runway. It was unbelievable. There were so many flip-flops. There were pairs of regular flip-flops, just normal average flip-flops. There were little high heeled flip-flops. There were little wedged flip-flops. There were flip-flops that were almost like a boot flip-flop, like where I've actually been seeing those for the last few years. That is not new. But alas, I saw it on the runway, where it's like a flip-flop,

but then the top extends up the leg. Does that make sense? It's okay if it doesn't. They're kind of weird looking anyway. You're not missing that much. You probably wouldn't buy them anyway. It's all good. I just kept seeing flip-flops over and over and over and over again. And it's funny because for

many years, I absolutely hated flip-flops, like despise them thought that they were hideous, would not be caught dead in a flip-flop. And then I got reintroduced to the idea of a flip-flop when I sort of had this epiphany that a flip-flop might actually be cute during the summer. It might. A little classic leather rainbow flip-flop, okay? The not rainbow like color rainbow but the brand rainbow. If you don't know what the brand rainbow is, it's a brand of classic surfer flip-flops. They're just classic. They have a little rainbow tag on them. It's super cute, super California surfer vibe, Hawaii surfer vibe.

Very nostalgic for me. I dreamed of having a pair of rainbow flip-flops when I was young, and I eventually got a pair, and I absolutely loved them. I think I got a hand-me-down from my cousins. They had rainbow flip-flops, and then pass them down to me. They were a pinkish-beige color, and I was obsessed with them. They were so cool, so surfer girl,

California surfer girl vibes. I adored it. And a few summers ago, I was like, wait, that's kind of a vibe. And so I wore rainbow flip flops the whole summer. I don't know, like kind of in like a wannabe surfer girl way. You know what I mean? I cannot surf,

but I can wear cute little leather flip flops. And I did. And so that kind of got me back into the world of the flip-flop. Okay, because I was really against it. I thought that they were unflattering. I thought that they were like impossible to style. I was super closed off to them beforehand. So that kind of wore me back up to them. And then recently I bought a pair of like plain black flip-flops. I was on a trip to my hometown and my dad's a surfer actually.

He's actually like a good surfer. Like not like, he's not like surfing big, huge, huge waves, but like he's a surfer. He surfs almost every single day. And on this trip home, I decided to surf with him. It went terribly. And I had like a mental breakdown every single time that we surfed because I was so overwhelmed and scared and I hate the feeling of a wetsuit, but I didn't bring any flip-flops on the trip. And so I had to buy a pair

and I bought a pair of just like plain black ones. I wear these flip-flops so often. I mainly wear them to my hot yoga classes because it's just like not fun to put a sock on in a shoe after you just sweat for an hour, like that's disgusting. But I've actually ended up styling them as well. Like I think that they look quite cute

with like a little Capri or with like a little yoga pant, like a little, like a sort of chic athletic pant. I don't know, they can even like weirdly look cute with jeans, like I'm kinda into it. I'm kinda into the flip-flop. And if you would have asked me a few years ago if I thought a flip-flop was timeless, I think I would have said no.

But I actually do think a flip-flop is timeless. I think the concept of the shoe, right, is timeless. Do I think every single pair of flip-flop shoes are timeless? No. But I would say the concept of the flip-flop, okay? A little post going between your two big toes and then a strap, two straps going over the top of your foot. Like that as a concept is timeless. That will never go away. And I think when styled in a cool way or when designed really well, it is a timeless shoe. Do I think that there were a lot of really trendy flip flops going on on the runway? Yes. I think the flip flop that is sort of like a boot

flip flop where it goes up the leg a little bit, that to me is trendy. Again, it's a bit weird looking, it's a bit funky, and I actually think it's kind of cool. It's okay. Again, I'm not obsessed with it, but I'm also not against it. I definitely don't hate it. But I just can't ever imagine that being anyone's staple shoe. Usually when you want to expose your toes, it's because the weather's warm. The weather's warm, you wanna slip your shoe on and off easily, and like, a lot of times shoes that are easy to slip on and off have an open toe. But now if you turn it into more of a shoe,

more of a boot, half the reason why you would wear an open-toed shoe to begin with, a flip-flop to begin with, is now kind of ruined, because it's now a boot, flip-flop. Yeah, it's just sort of like a pointless shoe, right? It's like half winter, half summer. You're exposing the toes but you're covering the leg. If it's a hot summer day, it's 90 degrees and you want to put on your flip-flops but you have flip-flop boots, that's not very comfortable. You know? I don't know. But I think like a little kitten heel flip-flop is for the most part timeless.

I think like weird flip-flop wedges, like let's relax. That's trendy. That is not gonna last, you know? I think majority of flip-flops are timeless, but be careful out there. Okay, next we have another shoe. Knee high sneakers. I saw this multiple times on multiple runways.

To me, these are an absolute catastrophe and they are unforgivable. Yeah, they are. Yes, they are. They are unforgivable to me. They are atrocious to me. And I don't say that about a lot of stuff. I really don't.

Like, I don't know. It takes a lot for me to call something atrocious. A knee-high sneaker to me is one of the worst things I've ever seen. And I never liked it, right? Like back in the day when I was a kid, like when I was eight, it was trendy to, you know, get the knee-high converse. Remember that? I hated them back then, I hate them now.

I'll tell you why I hate them, okay? I'm not just like, oh my God, it's ugly, I hate it. No, I genuinely have like reasons for hating it. Number one, from a functional standpoint, you cannot get your foot into a knee-high sneaker without a zipper. But there are laces all up the front. So it's an illusion. The point of laces on shoes are to fasten the shoes once you get your foot in there. But you know, you usually loosen the laces and then get your foot in.

So it's already a little bit silly in that way. But to give the shoe the benefit of the doubt, I'm gonna look at it as though it's like a boot. You know, there are sometimes lace-up boots that also have a zipper, but the idea is that you put your foot in, zip up the shoe, and then tighten it even more with the laces.

So even though sneakers are more of a utilitarian shoe, like the laces are for tightening the shoe, fastening the shoe, if the shoe doesn't need to be fastened or tightened, it usually will have a little bit of elastic, so you're slipping your foot in to a shoe that has elastic and there is no laces. There's never like a zipper to zip something up

and then faux laces. Like if a sneaker doesn't need a lace, it's not gonna have laces. It'll somehow fasten or close in another way. Elastic, Velcro, something else. But like a sneaker is a functional shoe, okay? A boot is more of a beautiful shoe. Like it's also more is a functional shoe, okay? A boot is more of a beautiful shoe. Like it's also more of a complex shoe, right? Like it's made often out of a

stiffer material. The idea of zipping up a boot in the back and then tightening it in the front to me doesn't feel as ridiculous. But I think it's because that's the nature of a boot. It's just a more complex shoe, right? And in order to fasten it, it's just more complicated. But like, the whole point of a sneaker, I feel like is that it's like a functional shoe, right? So if now you have a knee-high sneaker

that you could never possibly get on unless there was a zipper, now it's just making the whole concept of the sneaker goofy. It's just extreme and now it's a gimmick to me. Okay, in addition to that, it is perhaps one of the most unflattering shoes on the planet. A sneaker is pretty narrow, right?

So the foot is pretty small on a knee-high sneaker. The foot's small. And the shoe comes all the way up to the knee. But it looks imbalanced because when you have a shoe that comes all the way up to the knee, it sort of brings attention to your calves, right? It takes up a lot of space, you know what I'm saying? Like it's bulky, it's there.

And that sometimes looks good, like in the case of a boot. But it looks good in the case of a boot because a lot of times the base of the boot is a bit more robust, is a bit stronger. Whereas a sneaker is like small and weak at the bottom. And it just, there's something about like whereas a sneaker is like small and weak at the bottom. And it just, there's something about like a small and weak little foot in a little sneaker. And then the entire calf being covered with fabric.

It just, it's unflattering. It makes the foot look small. It makes the calf look wide and it makes the leg look short. I'm not sure exactly why, but it does. Whereas like a boot with a strong, you know, boxy toe perhaps and like a strong sole and like, you know, a thicker sort of heel and then a strong sort of situation on the leg, either something really tight or something more rigid that purposefully gapes a little bit.

Like, I don't know. It just, it's a more balanced shoe. The knee high sneaker is so unbalanced and it looks horrible to me on everyone. No one is safe. Literally the hottest of the hot. To me doesn't look good in the knee high sneaker. Bella Hadid, you're so hot. Don't put on the knee-high sneaker. You know what I'm saying? Like Kendall Jenner, so hot, don't put on the knee-high sneaker. Like no one is safe. No one should put on the knee-high sneaker. I don't care how hot and how beautiful and how tall you are. It doesn't matter. We're not ever gonna wear a knee-high sneaker. Moving on. I saw a lot of cowboy boots with a pointed toe.

I wasn't seeing like cowboy boots like, oh I just went to Boot Barn and bought a pair of cowboy boots. If you don't know what Boot Barn is, it's like a cowboy store and I just went to it for the first time because over the holidays, multiple of my loved ones had weird, like unique reasons to go to Boot Barn. Like there were multiple people around me who were like,

wait, I wanna see if they have any like just plain black boots. And then like someone else was like, wait, actually this is weird and I don't even know if I want one but I kinda wanna look at a cowboy hat because blah, blah, blah, this is weird. And I don't even know if I want one, but I kind of want to look at a cowboy hat because blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It was very random.

So I ended up going to a place, I never thought I would go, Boot Barn. They sell cowboy boots, they sell cowboy hats, they sell cowboy, cowboy, cowboy. I actually have sort of a cowboy in my family. My grandpa on my mom's side is kind of a cowboy and used to make horseshoes, like he was a blacksmith. So like, this shit's in my blood, okay?

I should be going into Boot Bar and like, I'm home. It didn't feel that way. I was very overwhelmed. It smelled like leather. I found a pair of boots I actually did like, like a plain black pair of, I don't know, like kind of motorcycle boots. They're just classic, but I decided against them.

I was like, you know what, Emma, you already have something similar and you just don't need them. But anyway, just went to Boot Barn. What I saw on the runway over the last week is not what I saw at Boot Barn. Okay. The boots at Boot Barn are like classic cowboy boots. You know, a lot of them are beige. You know, there's like sort of this classic, almost floral looking embroidery that a lot of cowboy boots have.

A lot of times they have the notch, like the sort of not notches, but I guess like zigzag embroidery on top of the toe. Like there's a lot of similarities between cowboy boots. They have a lot of key characteristics. Majority of those characteristics did not show up on the runway. However, enough of them did that I would consider these boots to be cowboy boots. Okay, number one, pointed toe. Okay, not all cowboy boots are pointed toe, but a lot of them are.

So that's number one. Number two, sort of the part of the boot that is on your calf, right? I don't even know what you'd call that. Like the neck of the boot, like the top of the boot, I don't know what you'd call it. On the runway, a lot of them had that sort of rounded shape at the top that is very much cowboy. And the seams were sort of in the same places. However, the colors on the runway were very different. A lot of them had elements that sort of

made them look not cowboy, like they were all black leather or all white leather or they were painted or whatever. But that shape I saw multiple times, particularly for men. And to be honest, I do think that this is timeless, okay? Some people might disagree with me because a pointed toe boot, you know, it can be hit or miss, but I'm gonna go ahead and say it's timeless

because I do think that at any point in history, you can style a goddamn simple cowboy boot and make it happen and make it fucking happen you know weirdly enough I think the sort of pointy toe almost cowboy boots that I saw on the runway to me because they're more simple and more versatile than the classic cowboy boot you know they aren't as Western feeling. They're vaguely Western, but they're actually more simple in a way. They don't have the embroidery.

They don't immediately read as cowboy boots, which kind of makes them super specific and niche immediately to what they are. I actually think that because of that, they're even more timeless than a classic cowboy boot because a lot of the ones I saw were like very simple, almost like a modern, simplified, more neutral take on a cowboy boot. Although I do think I saw a neon yellow pair,

if I can remember correctly, and those are not timeless. And neon yellow anything to me is a catastrophe and I do not like, actually no, there are moments when it works, but for the most part I'm not into it. And yeah, like something like that is not timeless, but I actually quite like these boots and I think that they're pretty versatile and flexible.

And so I'm gonna go ahead and say for the most part, timeless. I love a little vaguely Western looking pointy boot. Okay, next I saw a lot of skinny little dainty belts. Okay, I've actually been seeing these for a while now, but I just kept seeing them. So I feel like it'd be weird if I didn't mention them. I'm gonna keep this short and sweet, okay? Just like Sabrina Carpenter, short and sweet.

Skinny little belts are timeless. They just are, they're timeless. They always look good, they always look chic. A belt oftentimes overpowers the waist area. I really love the way that a little thin belt looks. It's just chic and it's elegant I really love the way that a little thin sort of belt looks. It's just chic and it's elegant and it's not overpowering. And I don't know, I think when it's done right, it looks so good. And I've been seeing it time and time again, and it's still happening.

But I think for good reason, because it just, it allows you to sort of cinch the waist in a delicate way. And most belts are not delicate, are not sort of precious, but I think a skinny little belt can be so precious and so elegant as well. Like belts are not often elegant, in my opinion. In fact, like it makes sense that they're not elegant, right, a belt is used to, you know,

make pants that maybe don't quite fit properly, fit properly. And when I think of elegance, I think of every single seam being perfectly placed on the body. I think of clothing fitting absolutely perfectly. And so the concept of like, oh, actually something does not fit properly, therefore one must wear a belt.

That is the opposite of elegance. Is that bad? Is that ugly? Is that ugly? Is that, no. No, I don't think so. I think there's moments when belts look super cool. There are moments when belts are actually serving a purpose and they look super cool.

Like pants are too big and you're wearing a belt with it. And like that's sometimes the vibe. But nobody's ever saying it's elegant. It's definitely not. And I think it's cool how a little, you know, dainty belt can actually be elegant. And it's kind of the only belt that can, which I think, in my opinion, that can.

And so I just, I love a little dainty belt. I don't own any, but I like them. That leads me to neon yellow, okay. I saw a lot of neon yellow and I already said earlier that everything that is neon yellow, I almost hate. There actually were a few things that were more of like a booger yellow. Like they were less neon yellow and more like neon booger yellow. For some fucking reason that I cannot explain. The only neon color that I weirdly kind of like is like a neon booger yellow green. More leaning towards green, but could read as yellow, but like technically is sort of like a neon green. Booger yellow green.

It's the only neon color I don't hate. There's something about it that I like, like sort of alien green, okay? And I saw some of that as well. So there's kind of a mix between like neon yellow and neon booger green, alien yellow, and green. Yellow green, it's hard to say. And I do kind of like that.

So like, but I don't think any neon is timeless I I have a hard time with that like full neon. It's not timeless to me It's just too loud. It's too loud. And if it becomes too popular, it just gets annoying You get to a point where you're like neons not even fun to look at anymore Like at first it was fun to look at cuz it's so bright and wow, that's so beautiful But then you get sick of the saturation and you're like, this is just becoming annoying. I don't know, at least that's what happens to me.

Anyway, neon is not timeless, but I do enjoy like a neon alien booger green. Have to say it. Moving on, a lot of mesh in sheer sort of synthetic fabric. Okay. a lot of mesh in sheer sort of synthetic fabric. Okay. I do think that mesh in general, and I'm talking about like mesh that's like, not like wide mesh, but like really narrow mesh,

like just like a shirt that's sort of see-through, but it doesn't have like holes in it. It's like mesh in a way where it looks like one solid piece of fabric, but you can see straight through it. Right. That's what I'm talking about with mesh. I actually saw mesh used in some very beautiful ways that were very elegant, very beautiful. My only concern is that mesh does tend to defeat the purpose of clothing, right?

The purpose of clothing is to cover your body, stay warm, you know, express yourself as well. But first and foremost, you're covering up your genitalia and you are staying warm depending on the weather or cooling off depending on the weather. So that means wearing less. But either way, it's usually about function first. And the challenging thing about mesh is that you can see your nipples through it, you can see your belly button through it,

you can see your butt crack through it, you can see everything. And on the runway, a lot of times you do see nipple. And again, you can't wear that very many places. So that sort of makes it challenging. But I do think overall, despite that red flag, it is timeless because I think that there's always a way to utilize mesh.

Like at any given moment, you can figure out a way to make mesh work. You know what I'm saying? I think unlike say something that's a wider mesh, like a fishnet tight, you know, unlike a fishnet tight that I think is more trendy because it's just, it's such like a statement. It's so, it's very, it's a loud sort of piece.

Mesh is so versatile and it's so buildable that I do think that it kind of always works. But I do think that there are moments where it's super trendy and I think right now is one of those moments. Next, I saw a lot of snake print. I hate it. I really don't like it.

I saw a lot of snake print and I just couldn't stand it. Every single time I saw it, I said, wow, that's a shame. That's a real shame. Cause it just, it's just not good. I think I personally don't like it because I don't know. I find like this sort of exotic, like animal prints, like snake, alligator, zebra, leopard. It feels so, I don't know. snake, alligator, zebra, leopard.

It feels so, I don't know, to me, like an exotic fabric or pattern feels sort of gaudy, flamboyant. You know, it's loud and it's like, look at me and look. I mean, those patterns, though now for the most part, you know, being faux, right? Not actually coming from a snake. Well, I guess it depends on the brand, but you know, not actually coming from a snake,

not actually coming from a leopard, not actually coming from an alligator. You know, a lot of these things are often faux these days. I mean, it depends, again, it depends. Some of the high-end brands still do use the actual animal. But when it comes to going to Urban Outfitters or Zara or something like that, of course it's not real, right? And these trends tend to carry into these places.

So anyway, but this sort of concept of exotic furs and stuff like that, it goes back to the way that people showed off their wealth back in the day, long time ago. Like hey, look at this rare animal that I'm wearing. That's how fucking rich I am. And I just think that because it's rooted in goddiness and flamboyance, it's rooted in being like, oh, look at me, very wealthy in my snake skin.

And that sort of flexing, flexing is not timeless. There are times when flexing is in and showing off know, like showing off is in and there are times when it's out. And I think right now even it's out, which is kind of ironic because, you know, I'm seeing a lot of snake pattern all over the runway. But it doesn't, it's not necessarily being used in like a super gaudy way. Like it's not being paired with like, you know, it's like a snakeskin boot and like a big, you know, puffy leopard print jacket and like big gold earrings. You know, it's not like being styled in that way, but it's still like reads like that to me. Like it, even when it's paired with things that are more simple and subdued, I still feel like, this just feels,

I don't know, it feels icky to me. There's something about it that's just icky to me. It gives me bad vibes. Yeah, I just don't love it. And I don't think it's timeless. I don't think any exotic animal patterns are timeless. This episode is brought to you by Uber One. Going back to life after the holidays

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move around with a fully different shape. It's very cool. Like the idea that like you could wear a dress that has beautiful, you know, puffed up shoulders and like a beautiful wide skirt, right? And now when you walk around you take up this space and you're, and you're, you know, you're demanding the attention of the room. Like there's something very cool about that. I like it. It's a great example of using fashion to express yourself. I don't know, I think it's a cool concept. So I'm into it and I think it's timeless.

Moving on to non-athletic leggings. I'm talking about knit leggings, leggings that maybe are in some sort of synthetic material, but wouldn't be worn for working out. They're fashion, fashion leggings. Not timeless, I don't think so. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. But in the same way that like wearing lingerie feels like you're kind of wearing your undergarments

outside of the clothes, like how can that be timeless if it's like not like socially, like it's not really socially acceptable like you can't really wear that around. Same thing with like leggings like leggings I think up until somewhat recently leggings were worn underneath clothing and you would never wear your leggings out you know what I'm saying? And I don't even think leggings fully existed until recently, but like a version of leggings existed. Right?

You know, whether it was tights or long johns or whatever for keeping warm. I don't know. I just think it does sort of feel like an undergarment. And I'm not, I promise you, like I'm not somebody who is super, like I don't care. Like if somebody wants to walk around with their nipples out, I don't fucking care.

I'm not super traditional, like, oh, well that's an undergarment and that should not be worn out. I'm just, like, looking at it from, like, a societal standpoint, not like, I wore a bodysuit with no pants to a fashion show. I wore leather underwear to a red carpet event. It's very clear that I don't give a fuck.

You know, I've had my boobs almost out on multiple red carpets. Okay, I've had a one inch piece of fabric around my chest holding my boobs in, and that's it. On a red carpet, boobs fully out. Majority of the boob, you know, probably 70% of the boob out on a red carpet. I've done it. So it's like, I don't care. But when I'm trying to figure out if something is timeless,

I have to consider its history. Like, would this have been acceptable 50, 100 years ago? Leggings, no. And so then that sort of begs the question, what's gonna happen in the future? Is modesty gonna sort of come back in style and this will look chuggy and weird and unsophisticated? I don't know. But I do think overall a legging, a legging for exercise I think is timeless because it's serving a purpose,

but a legging for fashion, I'm not so sure. And I could be wrong and we could be sort of in a new era, and for the rest of time, you know, a legging might always be able to be styled properly, but I just feel like they're so, like, they're so tight in revealing, and like, hard to style and make look good. I just have a really hard time believing

that they're timeless. Like, I feel like I remember them being trendy in like the 2010s and then they went out in such a big way and nobody dared to touch a legging. And now they're sort of starting to come back. But like I really feel like everyone hated them for a long time. And yeah, I just, I don't know. I don't know about the legging. I'm going to say not timeless, except for for exercise. We got to wear our leggings. But yeah, I don't know about the legging. I'm gonna say not timeless. Except for exercise. We gotta wear our

leggings. But yeah, I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong about that one. And last but not least, painted fabric, okay? Painted fabric in the way that it's supposed to look painted. Okay, like, I'm not talking about fabric that, like for example, leather, which I guess is kind of a type of fabric being painted so that the leather is now a different color, but you can't see that it's painted. It looks seamless and smooth. I'm talking about paint that looks like paint, right? Like you can see smudges, you can see imperfections. There's clumps of paint, there's blotches missing paint, but then there's other parts with lots of paint.

Like it looks painted. I've seen that, but I've also seen like spray paint, where like something looks spray painted. But again, it looks like paint. Like the point of it is that it looks like paint. The point of it is that it looks like there's paint on it. But not in the way of something is distressed and so it has paint on it. Not like, I don't know, I had this pair of cargo pants for many years that I actually did finally donate, but this pair of like beige tan cargo pants had like fabricated paint on it

like fake paint like but like only just little dots as though I was a painter and I had gotten a little bit of paint on the pants right that is not the trend that I'm talking about okay I'm not talking about like manufactured organic distressing like that okay I'm talking about like it is a design choice to take paint and like paint all over the garment and then have it be imperfect And like that is the garment looks like it was painted by a person not like paint accidentally got on the garment So let's be clear about that To be honest, I quite like it. I actually quite like it. I don't think I own anything that is painted like that. Although

Absolutely insane story time that I'm like mortified to hell. And honestly, I don't know why I'm telling it right now. Maybe I should save the story for later, but I got a new laptop and I was like, I am so fucking bored of having the same exact design on my laptop, which by the way is the design that Apple created, okay? Which is a great design, by the way, big fan of Apple, okay, love the company.

But I was just sick of like, I've been looking at the same sort of laptop for so many years and I was like, I just want something different. I want, you know, to decorate it in some sort of way that's interesting. But I was sort of stumped for a bit because I didn't wanna go buy a bunch of stickers

and put stickers on it because that's, to me, it reminds me of like being a middle schooler because that's what I did with my laptop in middle school. It didn't feel right. I don't know, buying a snap-on sort of case, that's cool, but that wasn't personalized enough. I was like, I want to do something personalized. I want to personalize my laptop.

And I was online and I was on some sort of shopping website, I don't even remember which, and I came across these Margiela boots, right? And the Margiela boots were painted white. They were black boots with white paint on it. And you could see the black boot coming through because the paint was sort of imperfect. And I had bought the black laptop. So I was like, hmm, what if I painted all white paint on my black laptop and let the black sort of peep through sort of like this Margiela boot. And so I got out some acrylic paint. I Googled it, I was like, what paint works on a laptop?

And it said acrylic, which actually ended up not being true but that'll I'll get to that part of the story later anyway painted all over it with white I was like that looks actually not bad like I kind of liked it but then I was like what if I painted an apple on top of the apple logo that looks like a real apple so then I did that and then I fell in love with it. Then it started to chip off immediately and I was like, fuck. So then I bought a plastic case and put it on there and now it's safe. My painting on my laptop is safe.

It is so weird that I did that, but that was inspired by the Margiela boot that is all painted or whatever. So it's clear that I do like this, right? Do I think it's timeless? Probably not, no, I don't think so. Because again, I think like such a strong design choice like that, such a strong choice of material,

choosing to like paint stiff paint onto clothing choosing to make the texture that imperfect. Just the overall look of it i think is so extreme that it is not timeless but i like it enough that i fully painted on my god damn laptop so clearly i like it a laptop that like. laptop. So clearly I like it. A laptop that like I it's like a brand new laptop and I'm like I'm just gonna paint on it. It was crazy. It was a crazy thing to do. It was very weird. But yeah I like it but it's I don't think it's timeless. But I do think it's actually a cool way to potentially upcycle pieces of clothing that you have that you're bored of. Like if you have a pair of black boots that have like a big scuff on them and you're like, fuck, like I don't know how to fix this, like big scuff. Maybe you take it in and they're like, eh, like you should probably just buy a

new pair of boots. Like this pair of boots, the big scuff is kind of too big. Can't fix it. You know, sorry, but the boots are still totally good. You could take a bunch of paint and fucking paint on them and give them a whole new look and it'll look fucking cool. So, you know, I think there's a lot of value in that trend. I actually quite like it. I actually tried to do that once with jeans and I actually did wear them a few times, but I think my choice

of paint and my paint job was not great. And so they did not stand the test of time for me. So they did not stand the test of time for me. Anyway, that's all I have to say. That is it for today's episode of Trendy or Timeless. I hope that you enjoyed it. And if you did, tune into Anything Goes every Thursday and Sunday. I do Trendy or Timeless every once in a while, but I also do other fun stuff.

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I have no fucking idea what I'm talking about. What am I even saying? You know what I'm saying? I'm just fucking saying shit. I'm just yapping, yapping, yapping about God knows what. I'm pulling shit out of my ass, but let me tell you, there's nothing I love more. I just love it. And I appreciate you hanging out with me while I do it. That's all I got. All right, I love you all. I appreciate you hanging out with me while I do it.

That's all I got. All right, I love you all. I appreciate you all and I'll talk to you all very, very soon. Goodbye.