Three weeks ago I’m sitting at this ridiculously overpriced beachfront place in Montauk – you know, the kind where a basic margarita costs what I used to spend on lunch…
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…
Okay, I need to tell you about something mortifying that happened last week. I was rushing to get dressed for a work meeting, grabbed what I thought was my decent…
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…
My mom texted me a photo last week that made me want to crawl under my desk and hide forever. There I am, age eleven, standing in our backyard in…
So apparently I’m old now, because I spent last Tuesday night watching teenagers on TikTok throw their entire wardrobes on the floor and roll around in them like fashion-obsessed golden…
I need to confess something embarrassing: I’ve been unconsciously dressing like a camp counselor from 1979, and I didn’t even realise 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…
Okay so this whole thing started because I’m basically obsessed with proving that expensive clothes aren’t always worth it, and also because I have trust issues with fashion gatekeepers who…
When I was maybe fourteen, my mom handed me this ancient copy of some etiquette manual she’d inherited from her aunt. The thing was literally falling apart, held together with…