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…
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…
I was standing at my closet door at 7:40 on a Tuesday morning, one shoe already on my foot, coffee going cold on the dresser, holding a second shoe up…
Everyone in my group chat agrees the green slip dress is having a moment except my sister, who thinks green is a color you wear to a garden party or…
My brother came through Seattle in December, saw the green velvet dress hanging on my closet door where it’s lived untouched since I bought it, and asked why I owned…
I don’t own an iron. Not a moral stance, not a minimalism thing, I just don’t have one, and my brother Sam thinks this is the most damning fact about…
I spent three years telling anyone who’d listen that green satin was a color story for people with better skin than me. I was wrong, and I’m conceding it now,…
I have two green satin skirts in my closet right now that basically prove I don’t have one opinion about this category, I have two opinions that hate each other.…