I Wore The Same Wool Coat Every Day For A Month To See If It Would Stretch Out
My coworker at the homeware brand told me wool coats “give” the way jeans do, you just have to break them in, and I believed her for approximately four years…
My Cashmere Jumper Bobbled Within A Season And I Wasnt Sure If That Was Normal
I paid $228 for a cashmere sweater in October and by December it looked like it had been in a fight it lost. Little balls of fiber all along the…
A Wool Coat Felt Like Too Much Commitment For One Winter, Then I Bought One Anyway
I told my manager I was “still deciding” on a winter coat in early November, like it was a live acquisition I was running due diligence on, and she looked…
Whether A Wool Coat Bobbles Depends On Something Nobody Puts On The Label
A client sent me a photo three weeks into owning a coat, wool, camel colored, from a brand that shall stay nameless because I don’t have their permission to drag…
I Washed A Wool Coat Against All Advice, Heres What Happened
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…
My Wool Coat Turned Into A Lint Magnet And Nobody Warned Me
My mom hugged me at Thanksgiving, stepped back, and picked six inches of lint off my sleeve like she was defusing something. “Did you sleep in a dog bed?” I…
My Wool Coat Started Pilling Within A Month And I Wanted To Know Why
Okay so I posted a coat haul video in October, full main character energy, “investment piece,” the works, and by Thanksgiving the left sleeve looked like it had grown a…
The Wool Coat Price Tag Made Me Sit Down And Do The Maths Before I Committed
I stood in the store doing actual math on my phone calculator while the guy behind the counter pretended not to watch me. $340 for a wool coat. I typed…
The Dry Clean Only Label On My Wool Coat Might Be Lying To Me
I bought a navy wool coat off a resale app for forty dollars in February, third listing I’d tracked that week, and the second it landed on my doorstep I…
I Ruined A Wool Jumper In The Wash And Finally Understood Why
The jumper came out of the dryer looking like something I’d knit for a large cat. Charcoal gray, cable knit, bought in Scotland in a shop that smelled like peat…