My brother-in-law packed for our lake trip last summer with the kind of precision I usually reserve for carry-on liquids. Swim trunks, rashguard, the good sunglasses. And then, folded into…
My landlord raised my rent by $140 a month starting in October. I know this because I got the email, read it twice, said a word I won’t repeat here,…
My coat came back from the dry cleaner smelling like chemicals and costing twenty two dollars, and I stood in my kitchen and thought, I could just wash this. It’s…
I bought a leather jacket in February, a stiff black moto thing with a collar that stood up like it had personal opinions about my neck, and the guy at…
I bought a sweatshirt in a medium, washed it once on the setting the tag told me to use, and pulled out something that now fits a golden retriever better…
I laid the maxi dress out on my bed at 7:40am, next to a blazer, and stood there having a full argument with myself about yardage. That’s the actual word…
My friend Renata texted me a photo of a dress three weeks before her cousin’s wedding with the message “is this too much lace” and I stared at it for…
I stood in a fitting room in River North for eleven minutes trying to figure out why a shirt that fit perfectly untucked looked like a paper bag the second…
My downstairs neighbor Deb saw me twice in one week wearing the exact same navy penny loafers, and both times she said the same thing: “Those look great.” Monday, bare…
The pins were already in my jacket sleeve when Dominic, my tailor for the last three years, took one look at the loops on my new suit trousers and asked…