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 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…
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…
Last week I was at a client dinner in Back Bay – one of those stuffy places where the wine list costs more than my monthly MetroCard and everyone pretends…
You know that friend who posts the most incredible outfits on Instagram but when you hang out with them, they’re wearing the same three t-shirts on rotation? Well, turns out…
Okay so like, you know how sometimes you have ideas that sound brilliant at 3 AM but then you wake up and realize you’ve basically volunteered to embarrass yourself publicly?…
Okay, so I have this mortifying story from back when I thought I understood fashion. Picture this: me, three years ago, at my cousin’s wedding in Chicago. I’d driven four…
Okay, so I spent last week basically becoming a professional creeper in the name of “research.” I’m talking about posting up outside fancy coffee shops in SoHo, pretending to check…