If you had told me yesterday that I’d be traveling to Boston today in order to get to Phoenix tomorrow, I would have laughed. Well… Storm Jonas had his own agenda, and after all the Phoenix-bound NYC flights were cancelled, I find myself writing this post from the quiet car of an Acela, instead of my […]
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Let Your Scarf Do The Talking
Whenever you can’t figure out what to wear, here’s my tip: just wear a scarf. I’m not talking about those sad little limp version heaped up near the cash registers at H&M. The ideal scarf has a bit of heft and meat on its bones. The bigger, the badder, the bolder = the better. The simple […]
In Defense of the Brown Sweater
My mom recently gave me a copy of Women in Clothes, a book of essays, Q&As and oral histories focused on our relationship to our wardrobes. Based on my reading thus far, the book’s cadence and tone is self-important and intellectually stilted. That’s not necessarily bad — writing about clothes connotes a certain amount of pretension, after all. (Ahem.) […]