Sleeping In A Corset Split My Group Chat Down The Middle, Nobody Agreed
My group chat has forty three messages in it from a single Tuesday night, all sparked by one photo. A friend posted herself in bed wearing a lace up underbust…
Open Toe Heels In Winter Got Me A Look At The Bus Stop, I Wore Them Anyway
A woman at the 17th Avenue stop looked at my toes, looked at her own boots, looked back at my toes, and said absolutely nothing, which is its own kind…
Someone Had Opinions About My Bralette On The Train And I Havent Stopped Thinking About It
A woman on the RTD light rail, somewhere between the stop by my dentist and the one I actually needed, looked at my black bralette under an open denim shirt…
Medieval Women And Corsets Get Mixed Up With A Completely Different Century
I’m standing in the checkout aisle of a costume shop in October, and the woman behind me is holding two things: a “medieval princess” dress with a laced-up, boned bodice…
Denim Jackets Were A Whole 80s Uniform I Somehow Missed
My sister had just dropped three photos into the family group chat, dug out of a box in our mother’s garage, one from my cousin’s wedding, one from a backyard…
Thong Underwear Gets A Reputation For Misery Ive Never Quite Understood
People have stronger opinions about a strip of fabric the width of a shoelace than they do about most political candidates. I’ve heard women declare, with the flat certainty usually…
An Adhesive Bra Felt Like A Gamble Before A Backless Dress
A woman at the dry cleaner counter, waiting on her own alterations, glanced at the backless dress folded over my arm and said, entirely unprompted, “Oh, those adhesive bras never…
I Went Down A Rabbit Hole Trying To Find Out Who Invented The Wrap Dress
A woman at a dry cleaner’s counter in Cherry Creek, waiting behind me while I explained a stain situation I’d rather not detail here, looked at what I was wearing…
Whether Men Can Get Away With A Crossbody Bag Turned Into A Proper Debate
My nephew told me, with the specific confidence of someone who has never once experienced a fanny pack in its natural nineteen nineties habitat, that the crossbody bag is “a…
Whether Guys Find Crop Tops Attractive Or Just Say So
I was standing in the parking lot outside a Target in Aurora, waiting for my sister to finish returning a blender, when the woman ahead of me in a cropped…