The Black A Line Skirts We Keep Coming Back To
There was a stretch, maybe three years ago, where I would have told you the black A line skirt was a costume for people who peaked in a college internship…
There was a stretch, maybe three years ago, where I would have told you the black A line skirt was a costume for people who peaked in a college internship…
There was a proper argument in this house the week I wore a beige satin skirt to a meeting and my sister, on the phone, heard the rustle of it…
The first time I wore a satin skirt out in public, I sat down at a restaurant booth and slid straight off the seat like I’d been greased for a…
I own seven leather skirts. Seven. I counted them last week while doing a closet audit that was supposed to be about donating things, and instead turned into a moment…
I own exactly one black satin skirt, a midi with a bias cut that hits just below the knee, and I have worn it, by my own rough count going…
I own eleven satin midi skirts. Eleven. I counted them last Sunday while doing a closet purge that was supposed to result in donations and instead resulted in me lying…
I need to tell you about the time I wore a pleather skirt to my friend’s engagement dinner and left looking like I was moonlighting as a dominatrix flight attendant,…
The satin skirt has a reputation for looking cheap the second you move wrong under bad lighting, and for about fifteen years I believed that completely. I’d wear one, catch…
Everyone talks about silk skirts like they’re a hazard. Dry clean only, wrinkles if you breathe near it, only comes out for the one wedding a year where you’re forced…
I’ve owned a black sequin skirt since roughly 2011, and for most of that time I treated it the way most people treat theirs, as a single-occasion garment that comes…