My Favourite T Shirt Got Baggier Every Month And I Wanted To Know Why
I bought a gray t-shirt in February for twenty two dollars, which is more than I usually spend on something with no structure and no lining, and by June it…
A Crop Top In A Business Casual Office Sounded Wrong Until I Thought It Through
Okay so my coworker Denise once wore a crop top to our Tuesday all hands and I spent the entire meeting staring at the two inches of stomach visible between…
My Sweatshirt Shrank Two Sizes And Im Still Not Over It
I bought a sweatshirt in a medium, washed it once on the setting the tag told me to use, and pulled out something that now fits a golden retriever better…
A Tank Top At Work Depends Entirely On What Ends Up Layered Over It
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…
Bobbling Happens To Basically Every Jumper I Own And I Wanted To Know Why
I bought a jumper in November that cost more than my electric bill that month, which felt like a personal milestone, and by Christmas it had little bobbles all down…
T Shirts Shrinking In The Wash Feels Random Until You Pay Attention To Why
I used to think shrinking was basically a mood the washing machine got into. Like it looked at my favorite gray shirt and decided today was the day. I’d pull…
A Tank Tops Business Casual Status Depends Entirely On Whats Layered Over It
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…
Crop Tops Were Everywhere In The 90s Before My Time, Apparently
I sell swimwear for a living, which means I spend half my shift talking people out of buying the exact same suit they had in a photo from three summers…
Whether Guys Find Crop Tops Attractive Or Just Say So
I was standing in the parking lot outside a Target in Aurora, waiting for my sister to finish returning a blender, when the woman ahead of me in a cropped…
Whether Straight Men Wear Crop Tops Themselves Is A Different Question To Whether They Like Them
The question “do straight men wear crop tops” is doing something sneaky before you even get to the answer. It’s smuggling in an assumption that a garment carries a sexuality,…