What We Wear
Things
| What We Wear
For Sale: Wedding Dress, Worn Once
There’s an irritating coyness to the language around wedding expenses: they’re not expenses at all, they’re “investments.”
Things
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“A Modern, Up-to-Date Young Woman”: Shopping, Fashion, and the Rules of My Girlhood
All the fashion rules I learned as a girl were informed by the view that women’s bodies are never okay as they are—they always need fixing.
Nonfiction
| What We Wear
My Closet Tried to Hold Me Hostage But We’re Cool Now
What Lauren Shields’ “The Beauty Suit” Taught Me About Different Kinds of ‘Modesty’
Things
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My Suits Helped Me Try on Another Life, But I Don’t Need Them Anymore
Sometimes I still think about my suits and the life I could have had. Now I work for myself, and my standard uniform is jeans and a T-shirt.
Nonfiction
| What We Wear
Borne Up by an Ocean
Seeing how many friends have endured harassment and abuse didn’t depress me. It made me optimistic.
Things
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Mapping My Body with Sewing Patterns
“The clothing I produce may be simple, but it belongs to me and my body in a way nothing else can.”
Things
| What We Wear
The Woman Scared of Her Own Kimono
I feel unworthy to wear the uniform of my inheritance.