The Puffer Jacket Price Tag Made Me Question My Whole Winter Wardrobe
I had the jacket in my cart for eleven days. Eleven. I know that number exactly because I screenshotted it to the group chat on day one as a joke,…
A Wool Coat Felt Like Too Much Commitment For One Winter, Then I Bought One Anyway
I told my manager I was “still deciding” on a winter coat in early November, like it was a live acquisition I was running due diligence on, and she looked…
I Wore The Same Wool Coat Every Day For A Month To See If It Would Stretch Out
My coworker at the homeware brand told me wool coats “give” the way jeans do, you just have to break them in, and I believed her for approximately four years…
My Cashmere Jumper Bobbled Within A Season And I Wasnt Sure If That Was Normal
I paid $228 for a cashmere sweater in October and by December it looked like it had been in a fight it lost. Little balls of fiber all along the…
My Sweatshirt Shrank Two Sizes And Im Still Not Over It
I bought a sweatshirt in a medium, washed it once on the setting the tag told me to use, and pulled out something that now fits a golden retriever better…
I Washed A Wool Coat Against All Advice, Heres What Happened
My coat came back from the dry cleaner smelling like chemicals and costing twenty two dollars, and I stood in my kitchen and thought, I could just wash this. It’s…
My Wool Coat Turned Into A Lint Magnet And Nobody Warned Me
My mom hugged me at Thanksgiving, stepped back, and picked six inches of lint off my sleeve like she was defusing something. “Did you sleep in a dog bed?” I…
My Wool Coat Started Pilling Within A Month And I Wanted To Know Why
Okay so I posted a coat haul video in October, full main character energy, “investment piece,” the works, and by Thanksgiving the left sleeve looked like it had grown a…
Whether A Wool Coat Bobbles Depends On Something Nobody Puts On The Label
A client sent me a photo three weeks into owning a coat, wool, camel colored, from a brand that shall stay nameless because I don’t have their permission to drag…
I Washed An Acrylic Jumper On Purpose Just To See What Would Happen
Every acrylic label I’ve ever read says the same thing. Machine washable. Do not tumble dry, or sometimes tumble dry low, and that’s basically the whole warning. No shrink risk…