2025 Ins and Outs

ties, blues, & ponchos + a little game

Before the clock strikes midnight, this letter arrives to you in a wax-stamped envelope sealed with a crimson kiss. This ins and outs list is but a postcard from the spirit world: I’m simply a medium for the information.

Call it tapping into the collective consciousness, call it delusional aspiration — these aren’t so much predictions as they are a written record of whispers in the wind and singing telegrams from the moon. I recommend reading by candlelight. (Or the blinding blue light of your phone, same same.)

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IN:

• Approach shoes

• Guinness

• Yves Klein blue

• iPod shuffles

• Dark wash denim

• Y2K surf core

• Frequent self-imposed no-buys

• Harlequin core

• Undone hair

• Longer shirts for femmes, shorter shirts for mascs

• Fingerless gloves

• Playing Clue

• Befriending your tailor

• Mint (especially paired with pink)

• Capes/shawls/ponchos

• Beetlecore

• Year-round plaid

• Checking out cookbooks, magazines, and coffee table books from the library

• Birdwatching

• Kiwi

• Clubbing as a form of exercise

• Shopping IRL

• Ties

• Making a Partiful for the most casual of occasions

Because old school games are so in this year (see: Clue), I made a little game for us to play at home. I’ll be crossing a square out when I do or wear it myself, and/or if I see it in a major campaign or as part of a widespread trend. First one to BINGO wins a big kiss!

OUT:

• Sad beige

• The word “influencer”

• Impulse purchases

• Buying online when you have the ability to buy it in person

• Filler

• Barrel jeans

• Pet brands that only cater to dogs and not cats

• Embarrassment

• Saying no to plans so you don’t have to leave your house

• Google

• Carnivore diet

• Foundation

• Second guessing yourself

• Taking food and coffee to go

• iPhone camera

• Using ChatGPT for anything

• My neighbor getting 10 packages delivered a day

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Yeehawt is going daily(ish)!

I’ll be sending out a daily letter for the week of January 6th. And because it’s my birthday month, I’m also gifting a 6-month paid subscription each day. Comment or restack with a note on any January post to be in the drawing pool. Chat soon!

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In the meantime, I’m dying to hear your ins and outs for the year.

What colors are speaking to you? What will you be wearing more of? Less of? What do you hope goes mainstream this year? What are you gatekeeping? Indulge me, please!