Kendall Jenner. Hailey Bieber. Ariana Grande. Rihanna. Kim Kardashian. The list goes on of celebs who decided coloured but still sheer pantyhose are pants.
They’re not pants. They’re not tights. They’re not leggings. And they’re definitely not naked dresses, which make some kind of sense on a red carpet or runway for a sheer, sexy vibe.
There are lots of other ways people go pantless, for sure. Bare legged. Leotarded, like the bedazzled Marc Jacobs number Jenner wore to the Met Gala. All just look like one forgot one’s pants, leaving behind a tuxedo jacket or a long bulky sweater or ill-fitting sweatshirt.
Isn’t this what assistants are for? To make sure one remembers one’s pants?
WE’VE HAD IT WITH YOU, EXTREME WEATHER
“The dog days of summer are not just barking, they are biting. Climate breakdown has begun.”
So said UN Secretary-General António Guterres of the summer of 2023 and its devastating outbreak of extreme weather.
Wicked ocean storms, wildfires, flooding and droughts. The planet suffered through them all. Earth experienced its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever measured. The world’s oceans were the hottest on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization and the European climate service Copernicus.
We know this is a big ask, in a climate change sort of way, but extreme weather, be gone!
ENOUGH WITH THE PRESSURE TIPPING
At the height of the pandemic, and during the early throes of rebuilding our lives, we were happy to tip generously and often. That included an onslaught of new tip requests from a brave new world of workers armed with little screens that prompt for tips just before we pay. Because, as you remember, we were contactless.
The problem? It never went away. The pre-pay tip prompts are still there, in our faces.
Tipping fatigue in the US is real.
The idea of tipping isn’t new, of course. But the disgruntled took to social media in protest of the guilt trip for non-traditional tipping, when we’re handed coffee and a muffin, say, or cruising through a drive-through.
The new normal doesn’t look or feel anything like the tip jars of yore that were easily ignored.
Let’s pay workers more to begin with and stop the pressure tipping.
Source: CNA
