My sister’s opening line to this whole conversation was “obviously you wear a bra, are you insane,” and her friend group chat’s response, which she screenshotted and sent me, was…
The table had gone quiet in that specific way it does right before someone says something that splits the room in half. Someone had just mentioned an interview outfit, tights…
I’ve heard a man on a menswear forum say, with total sincerity, that a tote bag on a man is “the fashion equivalent of asking to be mugged for your…
My nephew told me, with the specific confidence of someone who has never once experienced a fanny pack in its natural nineteen nineties habitat, that the crossbody bag is “a…
My aunt Denise brought this up over Thanksgiving stuffing, completely unprompted, the way she does with most opinions she’s held since 1987. Back in her day, she said, girls wore…
Guy at my gym was holding a pair of compression shorts up against his gym bag, mid conversation, like they were evidence in a trial. He’d just watched me pull…
It is 7:10 on the first properly cold morning of the year, the kind where your breath shows on the walk to the car, and you are standing in front…
I had a client last month, a guy in his sixties getting fitted for a wedding, tell me his father always matched socks to trousers because “matching them to your…
Standing in the TSA line at MIA, taking my bag off my shoulder to shove it in a bin, and the woman behind me goes “oh my god, is that…
My uncle works in private equity, and years ago, when I told him I was starting to style corporate clients, he said, “Easy, just put them in a vest, it…