Earl Earl

1 week ago | laurelpantin.substack.com | Laurel Pantin

I hope you had a great week! Mine was busy (in a fun way). Here’s what I was up to:On Tuesday I published a little shopping list on Your Mom of stuff for you, and cute stuff (including some of my favorite kids brands on sale) for your kids. Thursday was long post day, about nostalgia and longing and embracing the trends of your youth in middle age. I’m not sure what I was trying to say was expressed as clearly as I intended - or that it made sense, but it was fun to style and fun to write.

1 week ago | laurelpantin.substack.com | Laurel Pantin

Molly!!!!! The dream - she started her career in the buying office at Barney’s in the 90s, then went to Céline under Phoebe Philo, and now runs ByGeorge, a true fashion institution in Austin, and where I got a taste for the retail world. Molly and I talked about finding your style influences in the pre-internet era, discovering new brands, identifying the things that make you the most you, AND! I forced her to talk about this, but transitioning your hair to natural silver. Hers is GORGEOUS.

1 week ago | laurelpantin.substack.com | Laurel Pantin

I wrote a few weeks ago about struggling to get dressed in the summer, and what I talked about there was a piece of it - I like clothes with structure, I don’t identify as boho, I like navy and menswear, and those things are WARM. But the more I think about it, it’s a little more than that.

1 week ago | laurelpantin.substack.com | Laurel Pantin

Summer, baby! Here we go!Since I added opening a store to my plate, I’ve had…no time for things like nails. My nails and toe nails are are bare, but I still like to have my feet scrubbed and scraped sometimes! It’s been a very long time, and I started using this retinol hand cream on my feet to get rid of the scratchies on my heels and calluses in desperation (normal hand cream doesn’t do it) and it’s actually working. I liked the original Theraplush cream, but the scent wasn’t my favorite.

2 weeks ago | laurelpantin.substack.com | Laurel Pantin

Earlier today, my good friend and I were texting about what’s going on in LA and how scary things are right now, and we agreed that of all the nightmares we’ve experienced in the last few years, this feels different and worse because it’s so cruel. My wonderful, silly, fabulous dad is from Venezuela, and I took it for granted how I never worried about his safety growing up.