• Looks like we’re not the only ones excited for the February release of the new Coen Brothers movie, Inside Llewyn Davis. [Flavorwire]

• Is free-associating tour guide and hipster icon ‘Speed’ Levitch the hidden saint of our times? [Tablet]

• Maggie Gyllenhaal will join Michael Fassbender in the upcoming music flick Frank. [THR]

• Move over, DryBar: the celebrity stylist formerly known as Rachel Zoe Rosenzweig is opening several DreamDry blowout spots in New York. [Racked]

• Photographing Zosia Mamet. [The 6th Floor]

• Adam Levine will host Saturday Night Live on January 26. [THR]

Here’s what we’re watching to prepare:

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• But seriously, who asked the most Jewish question at last night’s town hall debate?

• Microbrews from ancient Jewish recipes? I’ll have another!

• A post from our new favorite website: Rappers Obsessed with Jewish Culture.

• Who’s going to play Rachel Zoe in the fictional television show about the stylist-turned-designer?

• Don’t mess with Sarah Silverman’s dad, Donald.

• We love Iris Apfel, the 91-year-old fashion icon:

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• Fun facts from the New Yorker’s eight pages on Scooter Braun: before he discovered Justin Bieber, the Greenwich-bred Braun’s childhood comic book hero was Superman, who he calls “the Jewish superhero.”

• Toni Braxton discovered her grandmother was Jewish after she made a comment about having to be home by sundown, presumably on a Friday.

• The Winklevoss twins celebrated their birthday at hip downtown kosher joint Jezebel. Guess we should add them to our list of the Five People You’ll See at Jezebel.

• The New York Post reports that Rachel Zoe’s clothing line and Bravo reality show, “The Rachel Zoe Project,” are not doing so well these days.

• Is new reality show Honey Boo Boo a “reflection of the classic immigrant experience?” Rachel Shukert says yes.

• Catch an early glimpse of the impending Downton Abbey diva-off as Shirley Maclaine, who plays Cora’s Long Island-bred mother, comes to Downton for a visit.

Watch Downton Abbey, Season 3: A Scene from Episode 1 on PBS. See more from Masterpiece.

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He doesn’t mind sitting patiently through a manicure, and he even has a purse named after him, out this fall.

We all know how Suri feels about the young Skyler (“People who wear denim shirts shouldn’t throw stones.“), but you’ve gotta hand it to the kid: look how brazenly he repeats outfits, right in front of his mom. No chance Zoe tolerates that from her a-list clients. Also, she totally dresses him for free, just saying.

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I have no idea why the powers-that-be at the Gap and other stores decided that season that covered elbows were “in.” But my friends and I were grateful that, for once, we could shop in the same chain stores as the rest of the country and be part of what, in retrospect, was a really ugly moment in fashion history.

Another such moment is now upon us. As this BuzzFeed article observes, it has never been a better time to be a fashion forward Orthodox Jewish female. Decreed by designers, retailers, and trend-setters—reality TV star Olivia Palermo, stylist Rachel Zoe and the regal Kate Middleton among them—modesty (or tznius, as Ashkenazic Jews are wont to say) is officially back in style.

The necklines are higher and the hemlines longer. The fabrics are less clingy. It is finally possible for an Orthodox (or Mod-Ortho) Jewish girl to walk down the street and not be immediately identified as such, blending in with the rest of the young, hip set.

(I’ve got an internal chip that is like one of those police scanners but instead of picking up on the presence of a cop car, I can distinguish a skirt-wearing Orthodox girl from the general skirt-wearing population. Same goes for sheitels, the wigs that married Orthodox women wear. No matter how expensive they are, I can pick them out from a mile away. I’m like a bomb sniffing dog for wigs.)

Unlike many in the ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic camps, some more mainstream Orthodox folks do wish to be able to slip into the wider society every once in a while. Many go to secular colleges and are avid consumers of pop culture. They live tantalizingly close to the mainstream and though they put religious priorities above all else, they are still greatly affected by Madison Avenue. When congruous with religious law, they want to be part of American culture.

But designers are probably not responding to Orthodox girls’ deep seated desire to blend in. So this begs the question—what exactly is driving this current mainstream fashion trend to cover up?

I like to (wholly and unoriginally) call this the Brooklyn Hipster Effect. Though hipsters are much maligned and the term itself has practically become a punch line, certain fashion sensibilities of the Williamsburg kids have taken root and started to influence threads not found in a thrift store. Their sartorial challenge: I’m going to pilfer the racks of this secondhand shop for other people’s cast offs and layer practically to the point that it seems like I’m wearing my entire wardrobe all at once—and dare you to not find it sexy and alluring. And so far, it’s been working. No need for cleavage and knees here.

But can the influence of Brooklyn hipsters last forever? Odds are, no. Fashion is nothing if not constantly evolving. Some day real soon those aspiring artists will decide that overt is sexy and the plunging necklines and tight fitting clothing will return. And failing that, I’m sure that the spandex-loving 80s trend will reassert itself in, say, 2018. (Just a guess.)

So, frum girls, do as my circle of friends did all those years ago—stock up. Buy those skirts and blouses in every color and texture, because this too shall pass.

Dvora Meyers is a freelance writer based in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, Salon, Tablet and several other publications. She is the author of the essay collection Heresy on the High Beam: Confessions of an Unbalanced Jewess and blogs at Unorthodox Gymnastics. You can find Dvora on Twitter here.

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• The Southern Baptist who manages the matzo production line at Manischewitz.

• It’s officially kosher to hang mezuzahs on Connecticut doorframes.

•This Jewish high school student sees her friends going on summer community service trips through their churches and wonders why there aren’t more opportunities for young Jews to do the same.

•Rachel Zoe’s baby is already practicing Rachel Zoe facial expressions.

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• Real men use…Hitler-endorsed shampoo?

• Drake’s bar mitzvah, the music video.

• Happy first birthday, Skyler Morrison Berman—and congrats again on being the youngest Big Jewcy ever.

• RIP, Murray Lender, the man behind Lender’s Bagels.

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