, , and your everyday LA cool-girl wearing the , I finally pulled the trigger.On December 9, I found a fresh pair of chestnut beauties in my size and determined that yes, I can justify the $140 price tag because I will likely wear them every day to write articles like these in the coffee shop down the street from my own Los Angeles apartment. I started running through outfits in my head, concluding they'd go perfectly with my wide-leg jeans, , and the basic black workout leggings and chunky sock combo I wear more than anything else in my closet.Gigi Hadid in September 2022.Keke Palmer in September 2022.Blake Lively in October 2023.Kendall Jenner in January 2023.Plus, I had about $80 of credit at Artizia that I needed to spend…So what if the large platform soles were significantly heavier than I imagined and slip a bit in the back? I felt great about my new (Uggs are perpetually sold out and, according to my research, Emu may have them beat on quality).
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Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. There’s a new class of scientific anthropology brewing in Los Angeles, one that isn’t merely centered around the human species but around another foreign primate that is often seen but rarely understood: the hot girl. To be a hot girl is about more than having an enviably symmetrical face and seemingly pore-less skin.
Really, the science behind becoming a “hot girl” is much less tangible and more complex. Thankfully, Los Angeles-based comedian Esther Povitsky has taken on a side-hustle as the much-needed anthropologist of our time, who spends her days on the field (ie: the pilates studio and Erehwon), reporting her findings to her hundreds of thousands of followers on social media. Her ongoing TikTok series “Things Hot Girls in L.A.
Are Currently Obsessed With,” has garnered millions of views since she began in 2022. “As I always say on TikTok, I identify as the Jane Goodall of hot girls,” Povitsky tells me over a Zoom call from her Los Angele home, bundled in an all-grey sweatsuit and her hair done up in a messy ponytail. “I think the term has gotten thrown around a lot in the last couple of years in our culture, but I have a very specific view of it,” she says.
“It’s women who present as people who take really good care of themselves, which I think I’m very drawn to because I am extremely not that. It’s just this whole different creature to me that I’m not like, but I want to know everything about.” And like every species, the diets, language, clothing and appearance of the hot girl is constantly evolving. To better understand the hot girl, we asked Povitsky to answer a
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