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…
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…
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…
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…
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 colleague asked me last month, over Slack, in the middle of an actual budget review, whether loafers “counted” as real shoes to wear with jeans or if she’d be…
A client texted me a photo from a work event, black Chelsea boots, skinny jeans tucked slightly at the ankle the way they naturally sit, and asked “does this look…
I stood in front of the mirror on a Tuesday, fully dressed for a lunch I did not need to dress up for, and had the specific thought that I…