I spent a solid fifteen years telling anyone who’d listen that linen doesn’t shrink, not really, that the whole thing was overblown fabric folklore passed down from people who’d washed…
My landlord raised my rent by $140 a month starting in October. I know this because I got the email, read it twice, said a word I won’t repeat here,…
I bought a pair of white leather sneakers for $34 at the outlet mall two Novembers ago, wore them once to a work dinner, and spent the entire night walking…
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 coworker Danielle showed up to a “smart casual” wedding shower in white sneakers that cost more than my rent for a week, and not one person blinked. Meanwhile I…
Okay so I had a final round interview last Tuesday, the kind where they tell you it’s “just a casual chat with the team” and you know that’s a lie,…
Okay so someone in my comments asked “is a tank top appropriate for work” like it was a yes or no question and I sat with my phone for a…
I answered a work Slack poll once, one of those pointless “what does business casual even mean” threads that flares up every eighteen months, and I typed out a whole…
“You know that’s not actually doing anything, right?” That’s what my trainer said, mid squat rack, while I was adjusting my underbust corset between sets like it was a normal…
I bought my first pair of black sneakers because a client canceled on me at 8am and I was standing in her closet with nothing to do but stare at…