The Thong UTI Rumour Follows Every Thong Conversation Ive Ever Had
I’m standing in front of my dresser at 6:40 on a Thursday with a dress that has a visible panty line problem and a work dinner in twenty minutes, and…
The Wired Bra Cancer Rumour Followed Me For Years Before I Finally Looked It Up
Fourteen. That’s how many underwire bras I currently own, which I know because I just dumped the entire drawer on my bed to count them, like an idiot, at 9pm…
Whether Viking Women Wore Corsets Turned Into A Proper Rabbit Hole
My coworker who does the Renaissance Faire circuit every October and my sister in law, who once made me watch three hours of a Viking reenactment documentary on a flight…
The Trench Coats Military Origin Story Surprised Me More Than Expected
Someone on a menswear forum once told me, with total confidence, that Burberry personally designed the trench coat for officers in the trenches of World War I, sketched it himself,…
Bralettes Get Blamed For Flattening You Out, I Wasnt So Sure
I was reconciling a expense report at 9:40 on a Sunday night, the kind of task that requires zero brainpower but full attention span, when my colleague from two desks…
Mini Skirts Defined The 70s According To Everyone Except Me, Apparently
“That’s just not true, the whole decade was mini skirts,” said a guy at a dinner party last month, with the specific confidence of someone who has watched exactly one…
The Trench Coat Sits In An Awkward Spot Between Formal And Casual
The moment always arrives at the coat rack, not before. You’re standing in the front hallway at 8:10, client call at 9, dinner with people from business school at 7,…
What The Queen Carried In Her Handbag, According To Whats Publicly Documented
I was three slides into a deck about quarterly variance when a message landed in our team chat from the guy two desks over in compliance, who apparently has a…
Why The Men Who Do Wear Pantyhose Say They Like It
My brother in law brought this up at Thanksgiving, of all places, apropos of nothing, the way men sometimes do when they’ve had one beer and want to sound like…
The Summer Puffer Jacket Thing Keeps Happening And Nobodys Explained It Properly
The rule you hear everywhere is that puffer jackets are a winter garment, full stop, insulation is for cold weather, wearing one in July means you’ve either lost the plot…