STREETSTYLE: Brighten up the rainy days
JUST because the weather these days is dark and dreary doesn’t mean your fashion has to be, too. This sunny sartorial will inspire you to brighten up your look. Visit
July 22, 2016
JUST because the weather these days is dark and dreary doesn’t mean your fashion has to be, too. This sunny sartorial will inspire you to brighten up your look. Visit
Guilty pleasures are equal parts open secrets and inside jokes. They’re the things we enjoy but “shouldn’t” – the teleserye, the saccharine chart-topper, the recycled movie trope. But they’re also self-aware markers of a hierarchy that tells us some pieces of culture rank higher than others.
We often keep our guilty pleasures to ourselves, but if we do broadcast them, we make spectacles out of them. These Big Reveals, after all, shows that you totally get mass appeal without losing street/cool/hip/indie/etc cred. Jennifer Szalai of The New Yorker words it perfectly: “you confess your remorse whenever you deign to watch Scandal, implying that the rest of your time is spent reading Proust.” So it seems, then, that keeping your pleasures close and your guilty pleasures closer is a win-win situation.
By Teresa Naval Guilty pleasures are equal parts open secrets and inside jokes. They’re the things we enjoy but “shouldn’t” – the teleserye, the saccharine chart-topper, the recycled movie trope.
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