I had a client last month, a guy in his sixties getting fitted for a wedding, tell me his father always matched socks to trousers because “matching them to your…
I have personally asked eleven different men whether they like corsets on women. Eleven, over about six years, mostly at bars where I had no business bringing up boning as…
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…
The question “do straight men wear crop tops” is doing something sneaky before you even get to the answer. It’s smuggling in an assumption that a garment carries a sexuality,…
I found out I’d been wearing a corset “wrong” for three years when my brother’s girlfriend, who actually does historical costuming as a hobby, watched me lace one up before…
Let me take you back to last Tuesday. Imagine me – aged approximately 16 (in years I haven’t lived yet), watching teens on TikTok shove every piece of clothing they…
“Jeans and a nice top.” I’ve texted those exact words back and forth, usually prefaced with “what are you wearing,” about three hundred times in my life. I reserve that…
For the longest time, I thought date night dresses were a bizarre, magazine-only subsection of women’s clothing—that fancy column of silk dresses you totally ignore because they require dry cleaning…
You know how people get cold feet about buying satin slip dresses? Never been sure why. Satin shines just right, they skim in all the flattering places, and they solve…
My cousin came to brunch with us a few weekends ago, sat down, looked around the table at literally four of us in halter necks we didn’t coordinate at all,…