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…
A Reddit Thread Convinced Me Denim Jackets Stretch, So I Tested It Myself
I bought a denim jacket two sizes too small on purpose. That’s the confession, right up front, because otherwise none of what follows makes sense. It was $6 at the…
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,…
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…
I Wore A Leather Skirt To Work To See If Smart Casual Stretches That Far
I told a client last spring that her leather pencil skirt was “a little much” for a Tuesday client meeting, and she looked at me like I’d insulted her mother.…
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…
Brogues Sat In My Basket For A Month Before I Worked Out If They Were Worth It
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…
Board Shorts And What Goes Underneath Them Is Apparently A Whole Debate
My manager, who has never once complimented anything I wear, looked at my board shorts on a Friday dress down day, the one time a year our floor pretends casual…
My Chelsea Boots Fit Perfectly In The Shop And Then Betrayed Me By Week Two
The guy at the shoe store had that specific confidence that makes you trust someone you met four minutes ago. Leather stretches, he said, patting the toe of the boot…
Underwear Under A Swimsuit Never Crossed My Mind Until My Sister Brought It Up
My sister called me from a dressing room at Target, which is a sentence that should tell you everything about how this conversation was going to go. “Do you wear…