COTW#3: This feels like an era-defining summer.
Thick with tension, dripping with possibility.
Oasis tour, protests, hot ass days, sleepless nights, hope for the left, it’s cool to go to Mallorca again.
Summer 2025 feels era-defining.
She’s electric.
I woke up yesterday and read an instagram post about how the water system in the UK is causing irreparable harm to our bodies but its too expensive to fix.
Seconds later, I watch people sway in the crowd and slosh beer over bucket hats at Oasis’ first hometown gig since 2009.
I send £10 to a crowdfund campaign to help a family of six get out of Gaza.
I fill a lazy spa with cold water and sit in a rubber ring in my garden. It hits 32 degrees in Glasgow for the first time in years, and I hear the faint sounds of a trnsmt set that should’ve been Kneecap.
I drift around the tiny pool, phone in hand. Every time I scroll past a photo of a Kardashian I think of Jeff Bezo’s wedding and it leaves a taste like battery acid.
I ask ChatGPT why so many influencers are in Mallorca. It paints an idyllic picture of cerulean blue water that makes me want to go. It asks me if I want flight options.
I make that checkerboard watermelon and feta salad. The juice runs down my chin and the salt smacks my tongue and I wash it down with a diet coke so crisp the bubbles are almost painful.
The whole country feels like a pressure cooker. The humidity is suffocating. Take a stand, make a change, enjoy yourself, hug your friends, gig of a lifetime!!, recycle, invest, no - spend.
Unprecedented times are exhausting. I think about all of the things in that Billy Joel song. Maybe every generation needs to feel like the main character, so their moment in history feels like it means something.
Should I get an Oasis ticket?
My phone overheats.
I put it away.
A breeze rustles the roses.
I love summer because it feels like the only season with the power to change your life, while still being completely contained. Summer abroad. Summer of love. Summer camp. The memories are either washed in sunlight or crackling with rain and thunder.
You can’t plan the way these long days shape you.
You just tilt your head skywards and take it all in.
POLL PARTY
I’ve read a few pieces about ‘everyone watching Girls again’. I never stopped. If you are as chronically online as I am you might be familiar with this question.
STUFF
Sambas £48 Adanola top https://rstyle.me/+7yTeBHbnY895Q29VFBS-EA
Hunza G bikini 50% off!
Hunza G bikini 50% off part 2
Byredo fragrance my summer scent but all Byredo 20% off rn
Doc sandals half price-ish
Adanola top lots of Adanola in the sale if you need a gym top up
READ
Since I finished Moral Ambition not a day has gone by that I haven’t thought of it. Its non-fiction, It’s life-changing.
DO
As if you need any recommendation. July is bursting at the seams with social invitations.
Glasgow:
Merchant City Festival 18th-20th July - Music, market, theatre, and fun street food options.
Ponyboy Pride 19th July, The Art School - If i was partying this weekend, THIS is where I’d be.
Ryanos does “The Bear” 19th-20th July- Chicago Beef Sandwiches at Westside Tavern
Fantasy Book Club, ACOWAR + Onyx Storm, 20th July - For my romantasy fans.
Quick restaurant reccos:
Glasgow: Margot, Sears, Gaga, Celentanos, Five March, Gloriosa, Sylvan
Edinburgh: Noto, Chez Jules, The Palmerston, Tipo, Paz tacos,
BOOK CLUB
For July we will be chatting Skipshock by Caroline O’Donahue. Join the book club thread to share your thoughts.
AND FINALLY…
Thanks for reading Chic of the Week. I’d love to hear your thoughts and chat more, so please start a party in the comments.