You know that moment when you’re standing in a crowd of well-dressed people who are suddenly acting like they’re competing for the last bottle of water in an apocalypse? That…
I wasn’t planning to become one of those people who gets genuinely emotional about vintage clothing, but here we are. Last weekend I found myself tearing up slightly in a…
My relationship with jeans started badly. Really badly. Picture me at fourteen, crying in a Topshop changing room because nothing fit right and I was convinced I was somehow fundamentally…
I was standing in line at this aggressively trendy coffee shop in Seattle last week – you know the type, they serve cortados in tiny handmade ceramic cups and the…
Last month I got one of those messages that makes your heart sink a little. “BABE! Sarah’s getting married and we’re doing a MASSIVE hen weekend in Bristol! It’s going…
So there I was last month, standing in Edinburgh airport watching my suitcase disappear onto the Dublin carousel while I was supposed to be speaking at a sustainable fashion panel…
I was standing in this tiny workroom in Hackney last month, watching a woman who had to be in her sixties cutting fabric with scissors that probably cost more than…
Last Tuesday at the Pike Place Market, this girl maybe half my age looked me up and down and said, “Oh my god, your fit is giving major weird girl…
Last month I was visiting my mom in Cape Cod – she’d demanded I come see her new “investment pieces” which turned out to be three nearly identical beige linen…
I’m standing in Target holding two identical striped sweaters, and I can feel my worldview shifting. One costs $34.99 from the women’s section. The other? $18.99 from kids. Same cotton…
I need to confess something embarrassing: I’ve been unconsciously dressing like a camp counselor from 1979, and I didn’t even realize it until my friend Emma called me out last…
Okay, can we talk about “business casual” for a hot minute? Because honestly, it might be the most passive-aggressive dress code ever invented. It’s like your manager saying “just be…