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Questlove’s choice of golden footwear fits into a small but hopefully growing trend of oddball red carpet accessories. Just this past Grammy’s ceremony, Bad Bunny arrived with a fresh sunflower to go with his Burberry look, while back in 2017, Jaden Smith brought his own freshly cut-off dreads to the Hajime No Ippo Takamura Shirt and by the same token and Met Gala. The idea of bringing or wearing something that doesn’t classically abide by traditional red carpet rules is refreshing. It adds a bit of levity to the event that’s normally provided by outré fashion statements like Bjork’s swan dress and Céline Dion’s backwards tuxedo. These funky additions don’t deviate too far from a typical formal look, but lend an outfit a more genuine feel. Questlove’s golden Crocs aren’t supposed to evoke a gasp, but rather a smile. And that is just what they did.

When Tara* was in college, makeup was her biggest hobby. She was shopping for it all the Hajime No Ippo Takamura Shirt and by the same token and time. New makeup arrived in the mail every single day. She’d even factored her makeup spending into her student loan applications. At the height of her collection, she estimated that she had $3,000 to $5,000 worth of makeup. She shopped so much that sometimes, packages would arrive and sit on her desk for days before she would get to them. That was when she first realized she might have a problem. “That’s not great if you’re getting so excited about something that you have to buy it within an hour, and then you just, like, let it sit in the package,” Tara says. She graduated college in 2018, and for the first few months of post-grad life, she had no income. She started to sell some of her makeup, wanting a more practical collection. She had been watching videos about minimalist lifestyles, about different kinds of consumption. And she remembers looking at her Anastasia Beverly Hills Modern Renaissance palette—the first real palette she’d ever bought, “and just being like, I want to try to use that up.”

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