I Went Digging Into Whether Corsets Cause Real Damage, Heres What I Found
I bought a $34 underbust corset off a resale app because the listing said “worn twice, too small,” and the seller was telling the truth on both counts. Too small…
Everyone Warned Me A Corset Would Be Miserable, My Experience Disagreed
Someone at the shop told me point blank that I’d regret it, said her sister wore one to a wedding and spent the entire reception “breathing like a woman in…
Calling A Corset Oppressive Feels Like A Nineties Argument Nobody Updated
I bought a corset off a resale app eleven months ago, a real one, boned with steel not plastic, laced up the back, and it sat in my closet for…
A Crop Top In A Business Casual Office Sounded Wrong Until I Thought It Through
Okay so my coworker Denise once wore a crop top to our Tuesday all hands and I spent the entire meeting staring at the two inches of stomach visible between…
A Lace Dress For A Wedding Guest Comes Down To The Lace Itself, Not The Dress
My friend Renata texted me a photo of a dress three weeks before her cousin’s wedding with the message “is this too much lace” and I stared at it for…
A Bodycon Dress At Work Comes Down To The Office More Than The Dress
I bought a bodycon dress for a Tuesday. Not a launch dinner, not a birthday, an actual regular Tuesday, because I had a client call at eleven and a leaving…
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,…
A Backless Dress As A Wedding Guest Might Come Down To The Venue More Than The Dress
Had a client last fall text me a photo from a dressing room, spine to waistband, asking “is this too much for a Tuesday wedding.” Not too much for a…
Open Toe Heels In Winter Got Me A Look At The Bus Stop, I Wore Them Anyway
A woman at the 17th Avenue stop looked at my toes, looked at her own boots, looked back at my toes, and said absolutely nothing, which is its own kind…
Sleeping In A Corset Split My Group Chat Down The Middle, Nobody Agreed
My group chat has forty three messages in it from a single Tuesday night, all sparked by one photo. A friend posted herself in bed wearing a lace up underbust…