October 28, 2024

Illustration: Pedroi Nekoi, Photo: Retailer

One day, contributor Erika Veurink was admiring her cousin’s especially nice, vintage-looking jeans. They looked like perfectly worn-in Levi’s, so she was shocked when her cousin revealed that her jeans were in fact $30 — and from Target. The mid-rise denim comes in multiple washes (her cousin owns them all) and are “soft, but not stretchy. In fact, they’re 100 percent cotton,” she says. Veurink recently wore them to a NYFW event, dying to reveal her secret to anyone who would listen: “I’d never be able to tell,” said one fashion editor.  

Elsewhere on the site: In her What I Can’t Live Without, Giada De Laurentiis told us about the Anti-Fatigue Mat that saves her back during long shoots (her dogs also love to sleep on it); kitchen and dining writer Emma Wartzman named this OXO Brew 8-Cup Coffee Maker our best less expensive coffee maker; and there are a lot of Strategist favorites on sale at Shopbop, including Hunter boots for 30 percent off.

Also, you might have noticed our newsletter looks a bit different. In addition to spotlighting the stories you might have missed on the site every day, from now on, we’ll also have some newsletter-only features: 100-word odes, exclusive interviews with very tasteful people about their shopping habits, behind-the-scenes tidbits from the Strategist’s writers and editors, and more fun shopping intel that we’ll be cooking up just for you.

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MICRO ODE

For years, I was hairbrush agnostic. My hair is fine and knotty, and I don’t have tons of it. So when I grabbed this Tangle Teezer brush at the airport a few months ago, I didn’t give much thought to it. But in the months that passed, I grew fonder and fonder. It gives more coverage than a Denman and is less annoying to hold than a palm-size Teezer. I can brush my daughter’s knotty hair in seconds, and I’ve noticed less hair shed when I use it on my own dry, brittle hair. I’m going to buy several more. —Ailbhe Malone, senior editor

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