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Prose
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Once, in early summer, after work I went to a house party where I did not know anyone very well....
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Perfume Ladies
In comes the occasional man, too. But usually, there are just all these girls who all buy a bottle of...
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Golden Girls: How South Asian Women Preserve Legacy Through Gold
Solid gold bangles, intricate tikkas encrusted in jewels, magnificent chokers covering the entirety of a woman’s neck — all of...
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Expecting
It’s been a year since my first miscarriage, and the summer sales have returned. I buy a loose kaftan, I...
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Blue Polyester Hug
Giving my grandfather a hug, even as an adult, was something I did almost every time we visited him for...
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Beggars And Choosers
Carlo is concerned about his looks; it’s important to him how his ‘outer shell’ – his coat – appears. Decent...
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What Fashion Is Not (Only)
Fashion is often characterised as a representation of society, its ‘most precise reflection.’ Yet, specular reflections are optical illusions based...
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Moths
Next I take out my morning suit – made in 1938 by Airey and Wheeler of 129 Regent Street for...
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The Clothes You Could Have Worn, The Lives You Could Have Lived
It is hard not to feel that for all its personal entangling, clothing is a social skin that is outside...
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The Grey Agenda
Bolton and Browne are two of the most influential men in fashion today. Both of them are gay and both...
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All The Ways Mascara Runs
What Erotic Thrillers Have to Tell Us About the Parallels Between Hedonism and Fear
Movies about sex are also movies about power; the way women in these films are dressed says something about the...
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A Runner’s Relapse into Online Shopping
I shopped like it was my job. It proved my organisational skills and my ability to distinguish tacky from trendy....