Much like Josefina, you’ve bought a delicate soul, music makes your coronary heart sing, and you’ve got a gentle spot for florals. There’s nothing you like greater than being surrounded by flowers and gathering an assortment of vases, ceramics, and pottery vessels to rearrange them in. (You additionally discovered the way to cook dinner with them, no huge deal.) After you completed deep cleansing each inch of your condo when the world shut down and lockdown started, you began an account on Instagram to doc your blossoming expertise. Now, you’re operating your individual florist enterprise. Household is extraordinarily necessary to you and that’s a giant a part of your decor persona sort, which means that you simply proudly incorporate items of them into your private home. Whether or not it’s an heirloom that has been handed down by way of the generations, postcards and footage on the fridge, or a reminiscence field safely hid in your nightstand, household is at all times in your thoughts. — SG
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Samantha (1904): Victorian Stylish
All people within the AG universe is aware of that Samantha Parkington is bougie A.F. residing together with her rich grandmother in Mount Bedford, New York, throughout the Victorian period. You realize you’re channeling Samantha’s divine power if your private home has a gallery wall with framed portraits, prints, and different valuable gadgets that you simply present in a bin at Anthropologie. “She likes to preserve little letters and mementos from her mates all through her life and show these in a distinguished method,” says Lydia. “That’s a very necessary function of her, as a result of she likes to cherish issues.” Like Samantha, you’re unapologetically girly, so your coloration palette would contain shades of pink with brass accents and lace particulars—you actually lean into the frills of femininity. You most likely fancy the finer issues in life whereas additionally having fun with actions like portray, studying, and catching butterflies. You even have a library filled with first-edition books by authors like Jane Austen and Joan Didion as a result of you’ve gotten style, however you’ve by no means opened them.
Your furnishings are costly, however all the things is classic and also you most likely bought it from a member of the family’s property. (As Barrett describes it, the vibe may be very “outdated cash.”) You’ve transferring companies on pace dial for all of your furnishings deliveries and have by no means lifted a finger to rearrange something. You shamelessly have a mirrored bar cart within the nook that includes glass decanters, champagne coupes lined with Gohar World doilies, and bottles of Veuve Clicquot. You’re so stylish that as a substitute of getting a birthday cake you serve petit fours from Cakes4Sport. Ceramics have been your pandemic interest of alternative which you changed into a worthwhile income stream, however determined to donate all of the proceeds to charity since you’re beneficiant like that. — SG
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Package (1932): Thrifty Lit Chick
Margaret Mildred Kittredge, higher recognized by her nickname Package, is the OG investigative journalist all of us aspired to be. Like several good reporter, Package is intrepid, resourceful, hardworking, and adventurous—you form of must be when rising up throughout, ahem, unprecedented occasions just like the Nice Despair. She’s always chasing journey and tales about these impacted by the historic occasions taking place round her (particularly the housing disaster), and enjoys clacking out her stories on her trusty typewriter. We think about somebody like Package residing in a loft that screams grandmillennial. “Her complete attribute is like she’s form of thriftier, however I additionally suppose she really preferred that stuff,” explains Barrett. “She would possibly be somewhat grandma not in an excellent stylish method, however she would have loads of florally issues and classic ornament.… She would most likely have some cute, mismatched china plates and issues like that.”