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How You Should Dress

July 22, 2024

By Ava Rose Chapman

How You Should Dress
Once, in early summer, after work I went to a house party where I did not know anyone very well. I drank too quickly, out of anxiety, and threw up for hours on my girlfriend’s balcony. She held my hair back as I said stupid things like how nice it was we had known each other for years.

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Keywords: a gentle butchness, Cheap black jeans, Girls in summer dresses, Mink stole, New lipstick

Everyday Use

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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What She Wore

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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Perfume Ladies

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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Clothes for the Millions: A case for workwear in collections and exhibitions

Opinion

Clothes for the Millions: A case for workwear in collections and exhibitions

April 22, 2024

By Sonya Abrego

Untitled (Strike), Dox Thrash, c.1940. Courtesy PAFA.
More work would do a lot to recalibrate fashion’s history; making it more inclusive and representative, but also to help...

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Becoming A Lady In the World

Interview

Becoming A Lady In the World

On Three Generations of Quinceañera Dresses

April 10, 2024

By Clarissa M. Esguerra

The "damas" (maids of honor) go from the church to the reception in a Ford Explorer limousine at Ruby's "quinceañera," Huntington Park, California, 2001, Lauren Greenfield, Courtesy of Milwaukee Art Museum
The young quinceañera is seemingly always in a ball gown. She is in pink, green, blue or other pastel colour,...

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Expecting

Prose

Expecting

April 3, 2024

By Mary Wang

Scott Hyde, Fruit, 1967. Courtesy MoMA.
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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