Let me take you back to last Tuesday. Imagine me – aged approximately 16 (in years I haven’t lived yet), watching teens on TikTok shove every piece of clothing they…
I once believed that white trainers were a thing for people with nothing better to do than worry about scuff marks. You know the type: people who don’t walk ten…
I spent three years telling anyone who’d listen that green sneakers were a costume, not a shoe, the kind of thing you buy for one photo and then quietly return.…
I wore a green tank top to the office in July, layered a cardigan over it for the 9am meeting, and by 11 the cardigan was off, on, off, on,…
Three years ago I would have told you gold sneakers were a costume, the kind of thing you wear once to a party and then leave at the bottom of…
I called chiffon blouses a scam for exactly four years. My argument was simple: you buy the pretty one online, it shows up, you wear it once to something important,…
I sell swimsuits for a living, not blazers, which means the only reason I own three burgundy blazers is that I stood next to a rack of them at a…
I have four burgundy blouses in rotation right now, which is not a normal number of one specific colored blouse for a person to own, and I’ve stopped defending it…
I have owned a black wrap top since roughly 1994, and I want to be honest that it was never the same top, it was a rotating cast of nearly…
I had this argument with myself for about three weeks, whether black is the safe choice in this category or just the boring one, and I never actually settled it.…