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I regret to inform whoever cares that I haven’t yet watched “Challengers”, nor have I started “Baby Reindeer.” My pop cultural currency this week is worth £0.02, and I’m spending those two cents on the Streisand effect 2.0. Ms. Barbra mistaking an Instagram comment for a DM to ask a celeb friend about Ozempic is easily forgiven. This type of entertainment may not be Broadway-worthy, but in some ways it’s better…because it’s free.

Welcome to Quality Sheet! This week’s is a shortie, but a goodie.

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Yay or neigh? Just weeks after The Four Lads swapped their skinny trews for loose fit jeans—and added this image to the official timeline of human evolution—a new denim shape is about to dominate the trend cycle. Get ready for horseshoe jeans, characterized by a cut that mimicks, well, a hoof. According to Fast Company, we have Alaïa to thank for that. The design house featured the shape in last year’s A/W show, from which the style is filtering down through the department stores and then trickling on down into some tragic casual corner where we’ll, no doubt, fish them out of a clearance bin. Related: In case you missed it from a few weeks ago, here’s why trousers are baggy these days.

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Meet three boundary-smashing “fashion influencers of the French Revolution.” Seven years ago, Barnard College professor Anne Higonnet unearthed a rare set of images from a French 18th Century women’s fashion magazine. The discovery sent her down a path to find out how women’s style “became an unprecedented force of cultural and social change” during the uprising.

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“Stamps provide ‘an amazing body of material to study the history of communication, art, design, but also humanity,’” Richard Morel, curator of postal history at the British Museum, tells the Atlantic. Here’s why the Victorian invention remains, in its original format, central to one of the ways we communicate today.

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Near-extortionate prices are grinding down our enthusiasm for takeaway coffee. As the cost of ingredients, labour and the climate crisis push the price of a large cup past £5 in London, it’s only a matter of time before the rest of the U.K. follows. The price shift is making both customers and café owners nervous, Sirin Kale reports in the Guardian.

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Have we reached peak filler? As our faces—and culture—become saturated with wrinkle-smoothing substances and injectables, Dazed optimistically suggests that embracing naturally aged features will be the next beauty standard.

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Isabel :)

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