Whether Anyone Still Reaches For A Denim Jacket Got Debated At My Desk
The phrase that gets thrown around is “do people still wear denim jackets,” and that one word, “still,” is doing so much sneaky work I almost want to flag it…
Why The Men Who Do Wear Pantyhose Say They Like It
My brother in law brought this up at Thanksgiving, of all places, apropos of nothing, the way men sometimes do when they’ve had one beer and want to sound like…
Whether Guys Notice Knee High Boots Or Just Say They Do
For years I told anyone who’d listen that “do guys like knee high boots” was a fake question, invented by shopping blogs trying to sell boots, because men are basically…
Whether A Tote Bag Can Cause Scoliosis Got Debated In My Group Chat
“Your spine doesn’t care what your bag looks like, it cares what’s INSIDE it,” Danielle typed, which is the kind of sentence that ends a normal conversation and starts a…
Whether Women Love Handbags Or Just Accumulate Them
My friend Reagan owns eleven bags and can give you the emotional weather report on every single one, the anniversary crossbody, the one she bought herself the week after a…
Why Pyjamas Became The Default Uniform For Doing Absolutely Nothing
“That’s not a pyjama set, that’s a matching loungewear situation, there’s a difference,” my roommate Dana said, standing in my doorway holding up the exact thing I was wearing while…
What Carrying A Crossbody Bag Apparently Says About Me
“You look like you’re about to catch a flight you’re already late for.” That was Renata, a coworker who sits two desks down from me and apparently spends her lunch…
What The Queen Carried In Her Handbag, According To Whats Publicly Documented
I was three slides into a deck about quarterly variance when a message landed in our team chat from the guy two desks over in compliance, who apparently has a…
Whether Straight Guys Wear Cardigans Got Debated At A Barbecue
I have a specific memory of buying my dad a cardigan for Christmas, watching him wear it approximately four times, and thinking absolutely nothing of it, because why would I.…
Whether People Still Wear Corsets Day To Day Surprised Me
I found out I’d been wearing a corset “wrong” for three years when my brother’s girlfriend, who actually does historical costuming as a hobby, watched me lace one up before…