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…

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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…

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My Jumper Came Out Of The Wash A Different Size And I Wanted An Explanation

Okay so I pulled a sweater out of my dryer, well, not my dryer, my washer, big difference, we’ll get there, and it looked like it had been styled for…

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Whether A Cardigan Counts As Smart Casual Depends Entirely On The Cardigan

I told a colleague once that I was wearing “smart casual” to a client dinner, and she looked at my cardigan the way you’d look at a stain you couldn’t…

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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…

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My Loafers Slip At The Heel And I Wanted To Know If Thats Normal

My roommate walked in on me standing on one leg in the hallway, heel hovering half out of a penny loafer like I was mid escape from a burning building,…

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The Bottom Button Rule Followed My Cardigan Home From My Blazer, Apparently

I buttoned a cardigan on a client three weeks ago exactly the way I’d button a blazer. Top hole first, working down, skip the bottom one on instinct, like my…

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A Sequin Dress As A Wedding Guest Felt Like Too Much, I Wasnt Sure Either

My brother texted me a photo of the dress three separate times before the wedding, no caption, just the photo again, like maybe I hadn’t understood it the first two…

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Whether You Need A Slip Under A Dress Never Crossed My Mind Until A Sheer One

There was a woman standing in front of me at a coffee shop last week wearing a white cotton dress, arms up, reaching for the oat milk on the top…

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The Cardigan Is Named After A Real Person And I Needed To Know Why

I’m standing in a fitting room with a $128 cardigan half buttoned, my phone in my other hand because I’d just typed “who is the cardigan named after” into Google…

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