Sartorial Taste and Judgment
My impression is that many highly-visible style experts - the ones with TV shows and books and magazine columns - either choose to or are forced to adopt an attitude of judgment. Since viewers and readers seem to find it endlessly amusing when a stylist chuckles under...
Flaws
I feel fairly certain that a marketing professional was the first person to refer to socially undesirable physical traits as "flaws." And I'm totally certain that those "flaws" were on a woman's body. When the concept of generating previously non-existent insecurities...
The Stats and the Story
Recently, I ordered a custom, hand-knit sweater from an Etsy vendor and she requested my measurements. I've really botched my measurements in the past, so I took a series of photos and drew some lines on my body in Photoshop with inch measurements so she'd know...
Reader Request: Dressing for Emotionally Significant Events
Reader Kelly popped this one into the suggestion box: I’d love to see something about dressing for the big moments and days in life! I feel like I’ve got a handle on things most days, but then comes a wedding, graduation, funeral, banquet? I freeze. It’s like I’ve...
Body, Style, Body
Your body is part of your style. Knowing about it, respecting it, and dressing it with care are all part of being a fashionable woman. Never let anyone convince you that learning to dress your physical form is shallow, wasteful, or unimportant. Your style is part...
Reality Check
Do real women have children? Do real women have C cups and above? Do real women have loads of life experience under their belts? Do real women have curves? Do real women have undyed hair? Do real women work for a paycheck? Do real women have sass? Do real women let...
Self Care and Self Love
You know how, when you're feeling kinda wretched about the current state of your bod, you tend to lose interest in shopping? And eventually, shopping apathy morphs into diminished interest in clothes? And sometimes THAT indifference becomes an inability to engage in...
Style Evolves
What nobody tells people who are beginners — and I really wish someone had told this to me — is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, and it’s just not...
The Dark Side of Thrifting
I want you all to thrift shop. Do you hear me? I WANT THAT. Because thrift shopping teaches stylish people that value is relative, that clothing needn't be expensive to be good, that trends can be procured for pennies, that style doesn't have to come from a mall, that...
Reader Request: On Body Hair
An anonymous commentor dropped this one into the suggestion box: Wondering if you’ve ever thought about/written about body hair. I’ve noticed that, despite my inclination to be completely fine with it, I’ve changed what I will/won’t wear in the summer to hide the fact...
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