I Washed An Acrylic Jumper On Purpose Just To See What Would Happen
Every acrylic label I’ve ever read says the same thing. Machine washable. Do not tumble dry, or sometimes tumble dry low, and that’s basically the whole warning. No shrink risk…
The Wool Coat Price Tag Made Me Sit Down And Do The Maths Before I Committed
I stood in the store doing actual math on my phone calculator while the guy behind the counter pretended not to watch me. $340 for a wool coat. I typed…
The Dry Clean Only Label On My Wool Coat Might Be Lying To Me
I bought a navy wool coat off a resale app for forty dollars in February, third listing I’d tracked that week, and the second it landed on my doorstep I…
My Jumper Came Out Of The Wash A Different Size And I Wanted An Explanation
Okay so I pulled a sweater out of my dryer, well, not my dryer, my washer, big difference, we’ll get there, and it looked like it had been styled for…
Cotton Jumpers Have A Reputation For Shrinking That I Wanted To Test Properly
I bought the same jumper twice. Same brand, same size, same shade of oatmeal, four days apart, because I could not stop thinking about whether the internet was lying to…
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…
I Ruined A Wool Jumper In The Wash And Finally Understood Why
The jumper came out of the dryer looking like something I’d knit for a large cat. Charcoal gray, cable knit, bought in Scotland in a shop that smelled like peat…
My Chelsea Boots Felt Tight For Weeks Before I Trusted Theyd Stretch
There is a specific ankle bone, mine, left foot, that spent three weeks in October convinced I had bought the wrong boots. Not sort of wrong. Fully, return label printed,…
Whether A Cardigan Counts As Smart Casual Depends Entirely On The Cardigan
I told a colleague once that I was wearing “smart casual” to a client dinner, and she looked at my cardigan the way you’d look at a stain you couldn’t…
Tights Under Over The Knee Boots Turned Into A Full Debate Getting Ready For A Wedding
My colleague Renata texted me a photo of her over the knee boots at 9:47 on a Saturday morning, wedding at 2, and the message just said “tights or not,…