I built a whole spreadsheet the year I almost bought a trench coat. Not a metaphorical spreadsheet, an actual one, cost per wear projected against a Boston winter that’s really…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Four times I added them to the cart. Four times I closed the tab instead of checking out, because a brogue is one of those shoes that photographs like a…
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 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…
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…
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…