Suit Trousers Feeling Snug After Lunch Made Me Question The Fabric

I have genuinely spent longer thinking about my waistband than most people spend deciding whether to buy a house. I know this because I once stood in a fitting room…

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Nobody Mentioned I Might Need A Slip Under My Wedding Dress

My mom’s friend, a woman who got married in 1986 and has never once let anyone forget it, told me at a bridal shower that “back in our day nobody…

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I Went Down A Rabbit Hole Trying To Find Out Who Invented The Wrap Dress

A woman at a dry cleaner’s counter in Cherry Creek, waiting behind me while I explained a stain situation I’d rather not detail here, looked at what I was wearing…

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Buttoning Both Buttons On A Blazer Is The One Rule Everyone Quietly Ignores

I bought a blazer off a resale app three months ago, gray, structured, the kind of thing that photographs like it costs more than it did, and the first thing…

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Whether Brown Brogues Work With A Grey Suit Took Me Longer To Work Out Than It Should Have

People get remarkably worked up about brown shoes and grey suits, considering the actual stakes involved, which are approximately zero. Nobody has ever lost a job, a marriage, or a…

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Brown Loafers Get Called A Universal Match, I Wanted To Test That Properly

I bought my first pair of brown loafers eleven years ago because a guy at the shoe counter told me they’d go with anything, and I believed him the way…

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Brown Shoes With Grey Trousers Got Questioned By A Colleague At Lunch

“That’s a bold choice for a Tuesday,” she said, looking at my feet like I’d shown up in cleats. I was wearing dark brown derbies with charcoal grey trousers, a…

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I Tried That Viral TikTok Dressing Method Where You Throw Everything on the Floor (Spoiler: My Silk Blouses Were Not Happy)

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…

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How My $25 Target Loafers Keep Getting Mistaken for $800 Designer Shoes

I was crammed into the backseat of my boss’s Uber on our way to a client presentation, doing my best to keep my knees from bumping the ceiling while also…

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Cream Chunky Loafers For Light Days

Cream chunky loafers were not something I ever thought I needed until I spotted a pair in that exact shade at a vintage shop in York last April. The woman…

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