spring / summer 2024 trends according to hot mushrooms
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Hello hot mushrooms readers! Is it spring where you are? It is almost summer where I am. What are you wearing these days? I spent all winter wearing my precious vintage wool jackets, but it is already too warm here in Barcelona for such fashions. So, I was contemplating what I can replace them with, to keep up my new aesthetic, Champagne Noir. Yes, I changed the name without telling anyone. I’ve settled on looking towards Lana Del Rey’s 2012 southern California aesthetic.
Very this:
While I was in that headspace I thought it would be fun, for me, idk about you, to give you dear readers my take on spring / summer 2024 trend forecasting. So, here it goes!
loose yoga clothes
Specifically sweatpants, or “joggers” if you’re allergic to the 80s flavour of “sweatpants”. Every moderately cool yoga girl I follow on Instagram has stopped wearing leggings and bicycle shorts. As soon as I noticed this, I immediately stopped wearing leggings. I put them on and they look… dated.
I had been wondering where yoga clothing trends would go next. When I started yoga, print leggings were all the rage. Of course, that slid into solid colours, bonus points for light colours on faux tanned skin. I’ve been watching and waiting for the trend pendulum to swing back to prints, but cycling back to looser bottoms makes more sense.
If you’re in the market for new athletic wear, I would highly recommend solid colour sports bras with uncomplicated straps, and solid colour sweatpants one size up from what you’d normally wear.
Trust me.
(this is the first and last actual styling trend I’m writing about here, so you can peace out now if you’re not into any silliness. ok ok ok, if you’re desperate for fashion advice here it is: 2012. Trust me.)
kate middleton conspiracies
Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales, is missing. His Majesty the King is taking herbs for cancer.1 His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, maybe killed someone?2 The Prince’s mistress, the Marchioness of Cholmondeley, might be pregnant.3 The Duke of Sussex, aka The Spare, is in exile!4 And unlike in times gone by, the whole world gets to talk about this on twitter and TikTok.
I cannot watch anything having to do with Kardashians or “real” housewives because all I can see is their terrible impact on society. But this royal mess? Yes. Yes. Forever yes. Because we need a low-stakes break from the global pandemic and the multiple genocides that we’re witnessing.
Because:
this one specific TikTok account; or how I stopped worrying about AI
(please enjoy my attempt at describing this very niche, very online bit of nonsense to you)
@earfquake3 is a French TikToker (I think he’s French, I’m not certain). He does a lot of comedy and parody videos and all the older ones I’ve seen are in French. The French part is crucial to why this guy’s account is on this list!
Sidebar info: for World Ballet Day 2022 someone posted a video of a French ballet master giving his class a rather complex combination. And a lot of professional ballet dancers made it a fun challenge to dance along with the audio of him giving the combination (in French, btw).
On 16 November, 2023, Earfquake posted his own version of dancing along to the audio. Earfquake is not classically trained. His moves are the literal translations of the French words for the steps. My mind hasn’t been so blown by a comedy concept since the first time I saw Monty Python.
Because it isn’t just one video of him doing this. He posted a second, different video that same day. These two both have (at the time of writing) over 1.5 million views, each! He posted more of his older style stuff after this, until 2 February, and since then he has only posted different versions of this video. They often feature his cat, and they often start repeating within the videos run time (no, it’s not just the video starting over).
I feel I’ve done a poor job describing this, probably because I’m not confident enough in my French language skills, so here’s my favourite one:
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I am NOT worried about AI taking over any kind of human activity requiring idea generation, aka creativity. Because AI couldn’t write Monty Python skits, and it certainly couldn’t do this.
Those were your spring / summer 2024 trend predictions. I’ve been Rachel Velebny.5 Thanks for reading along with this week’s hot mushrooms. Like, subscribe, share!
I’m not linking this within the text because the source, GB News, is an ultra-right wing infotainment site, but they did get some old man to say of the king that, “"He would not be one for chemotherapy. He's always argued against it. He's a great believer in natural herbs and potions and things like that.” Here’s the link in case you don’t believe me, but this organisation doesn’t deserve your click.
I heard one person say this once in a TikTok and I’m using the rumour here for comedic effect. Please don’t sue me. Thanks.
This is unconfirmed and probably not true and blah blah blah…
This one didn’t need a footnote for proof, but I didn’t want the sentence to feel left out of the party down here.
At the end of my favourite podcast the host always says, “This has been Sentimental Garbage and I’ve been Caroline O’Donoghue.” I love that. Like she’s not Caroline O’Donoghue anymore now.
And as a treat for making it this far down here’s the original TikTok of the ballet class:
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Yup. This was good. Enjoyed the read, the videos and oh so loved the footnotes.