Harold Feinstein, Child's Back in Mother's Arms / Putney Vermont, 1974. Courtesy ICP.

My mother tells a story about wheeling me around in a supermarket shopping cart as a toddler, wearing so many tops and T-shirts simultaneously that my arms stuck straight out like a snowman.

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Interview

You Just Want To Call The Person ‘Sir’

A conversation with the family behind Manny Gammage’s Texas Hatters Inc.

August 16, 2024

By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg

A conversation with the family behind Manny Gammage’s Texas Hatters Inc. 'I’ve seen wills being written up about hats. Once...

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Prose

How You Should Dress

July 22, 2024

By Ava Rose Chapman

Once, in early summer, after work I went to a house party where I did not know anyone very well....

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Fiction

Everyday Use

July 1, 2024

By Alice Walker

In real life I am a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns...

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Opinion

Mending at the Margins

Repair in My London Neighbourhood

June 14, 2024

By Diamond Abdulrahim

Gene Badger, Man Assembling Leather Football Shoes, 1941. Courtesy ICP.

What Adil was saying is that everyone wants an office-based job. His comment made me think about the contemporary office...

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Fiction

What She Wore

June 6, 2024

By Edna Ferber

Harold Feinstein, Fourteenth Street Shoe Store Window, 1969. Courtesy ICP.

I hesitate to describe Sophy Epstein's dress. You won't like it. In the first place, it was cut too low,...

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Prose

Perfume Ladies

May 27, 2024

By Emma Aars

Weegee, Vampira in Chanel No. 5 perfume bottle, c. 1953. Courtesy ICP.

In comes the occasional man, too. But usually, there are just all these girls who all buy a bottle of...

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