The Sunday Digest 074
And I like cream in my coffee, and I like to sleep late on Sunday.
Welcome to The Sunday Digest — a free Sunday newsletter featuring long (and some short) reads, original columns, things I’ve saved over the last week, relaxing playlists, episodes releases, exclusive product drops, and more. Yes, you can reply to this email. I’d love to hear from you. Or, if podcasts are more your speed on Sundays, we’ve got that too.
Sunday Read › Nothing Says Status Like a Hotel Bathrobe
by Carson Griffith for The New York Times
An Everything Shower™ can’t be an Everything Shower™ without one very important thing: a good robe for the afters.
It wasn’t until 2019 that I began to experience everything that a robe can be. Warmth on a night when you didn’t realize the temperature was going to dip and you didn’t adjust the Nest. A security blanket after a hungover sit-down shower. But most of all? A way to feel bougie within the confines of your home without really having to spend that much.
It was in that same year that I bought the robe I am still wearing to this day. Hailing from The Goring hotel in London, it’s a plush white robe with the hotel’s coat of arms embroidered on the chest.
It has a small rip where one of the belt loops used to be — and while I’ve considered getting it sewn up, I simply can’t part with it.
As it turns out, I haven’t been alone in adopting hotel robes. If anything, I may have even been a little ahead of the curve when I recorded this episode of The Sunday Scaries Podcast:
This week’s read is the perfect Sunday Read. Here’s an excerpt:
Branded clothing and other merchandise are nothing new. And from your corner cafe to the local mechanic, slapping a name and logo on a T-shirt or a baseball hat and selling them for additional revenue has never been easier. But over the past several years, some hotels — luxury properties, in particular — say they have seen greater demand for hotel memorabilia, with hats, T-shirts and towels bearing the insignia of properties becoming sought-after swag among the “stealth wealth” set.
Whatever the items might imply, actually staying at the properties is not required. “Nothing sells as fast as the great hotel merchandise,” said Brett David, who owns Spring Street Vintage, a company in New York City that sells secondhand hats, T-shirts and sweatshirts from $50 to $140 from places like the Beverly Hills Hotel and Chateau Marmont.
Read in full here.
New Episode › Retail Therapy 066: Conscious Cowboy Consumption
A note about this week’s episode — As it currently stands, video for this episode is only available through Spotify. For reasons we’re unsure of, our YouTube account was suspended last week and we’re in the midst of attempting to get it back.
The vibes shifted this week to The Great American West. Inspired by Beyonce's pivot to country, we go through the various reasons cowboy fashion simply won't go away. We also take the first part of today's episode to discuss The Rule of 5 — a way of consciously consuming by only buying five items for your closet per year. To round things out, we discuss some Kevin Murphy hair products, the viral caviar martini, Lorde's $170 water bottle, hotel robes, bogcore, and more.
Here’s a preview of one of today’s topics, the caviar martini.
Listen to Retail Therapy on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and anywhere else podcasts are found.
The Sunday Haiku: The Reason My Pant Leg Is Wrinkled At Work Every Single Monday
Too tired to get up,
if it sits, it’ll wrinkle,
one more spin cycle.
Things I Saved This Week
Supplemental Reading
These “100 Small Acts of Love” made me want to sit on my couch and watch every single Nancy Meyer’s film — Read
The Cut jumped the shark for me a while ago, but this week’s financial advice column solidified that I can delete it from my bookmarks bar — Read
I gave my personal answers to The New York Times questions about health in 2024 — Read
I’ve just always really enjoyed Jenny Slate — Read
Don’t forget to read last week’s Sunday Confessions before this week’s confessions get released tomorrow — Read