The Sunday Digest 049
Fuzzy sweaters, fuzzy feelings.
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Sunday Read: Before 'Quiet Luxury,' There Was Prep.
by Amy Odell for Back Row
There’s a certain, undeniable fuzziness to a nice cashmere sweater. Especially a well-worn (and well-loved) one. It doesn’t need to have a tag near the wrist still fixed to it, and there doesn’t need to be a logo anywhere signifying how expensive it is. But when you walk into a cafe and see the way the sunlight sits behind it, the way the fuzzies act as the trees along the horizon during a Texas Hill Country sunset… well, you just know.
We briefly discussed the concept of “quiet luxury” on Retail Therapy recently, but it’s suddenly become a quick conversation across Instagram and blogs alike. It’s mainly because Succession has returned, but everyone will try to force feed you their own take on it as if that isn’t the sole reason we’re here.
This week’s Sunday Read, however, was not force-fed at all. It’s from another Substack that I’ve become a regular reader of, and here’s an excerpt.
It can’t be an accident that the “American Ivy” podcast came out in the fall, shortly before everyone started going crazy for quiet luxury. How would you say the two connect?
I’m in Utah right now, looking at the outdoor recreation archive. It's actually so cool, it's an archive of thousands of outdoor clothing catalogs starting from the 1800s. Like the earliest Abercrombie & Fitch catalog. It's sort of incredible to really see — before there was old money, what was there? And they were all literally hunting catalogs, and they’re advertising Bean boots. What is subtly implied in preppy clothes and quiet luxury is: It's about having time.
In all these catalog images, they're all these gentlemen hunters, smoking pipes, and while they're clearly not woodsmen, they're out on their estates on the weekends. So it's really about, I think in a modern context, a sort of reclamation of values. To be like, I don't live online. I have a full, rich, outer life that's not about surface signaling. I appreciate luxury, I travel, and I enjoy a good, meaningful life.
Read in full here.
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