The Checked Skirts We Keep Coming Back To
Okay so my complaint, and nobody in my life has ever once pushed back on this, they just nod and let me keep talking, is that everyone treats the checked…
Okay so my complaint, and nobody in my life has ever once pushed back on this, they just nod and let me keep talking, is that everyone treats the checked…
I called chiffon blouses a scam for exactly four years. My argument was simple: you buy the pretty one online, it shows up, you wear it once to something important,…
I have four burgundy blouses in rotation right now, which is not a normal number of one specific colored blouse for a person to own, and I’ve stopped defending it…
There’s a running joke in my group chat that I own the burgundy dress in a way that’s slightly medical. Three of them, currently. Two thrifted, one bought full price…
I searched “burgundy floral midi” at eleven at night like it was a real emergency, because it was almost October and I had convinced myself I did not own a…
My mom has this joke about me and black blouses, that I own them the way other people own tote bags, no memory of acquiring any of them, definite memory…
My friend Marisol won this argument about a month ago and I’m still salty about it, which tells you everything about how these conversations usually go on our end. She’d…
My mom came to visit in March, sat across from me at brunch, and said, “that color makes you look like you skipped breakfast for a week.” Not mean, just…
Everyone talks about beige like it’s the safe choice, the dress equivalent of ordering a chicken breast because you don’t want to think about dinner. That’s the complaint I have,…
The real fight in this office was never about beige. It was about whether you’re a person who sits down at work or a person who’s up and down forty…