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In Defense of “Unflattering” Fashion
Photo by Benjamin Galli / CC 2.0 Each season, I find myself having the same conversation with yet another lovely, intelligent, perfectly beautiful woman: “Oh, that looks amazing, but I can’t wear it....
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Branching Out Beyond All-Black Clothing
Whether you self-identify your personal style as a bohemian or “normcore” or classically preppy (or anything else under the sun, really), the benefits of wearing black clothes are infinite. Yohji...
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Normcore and the Hierarchy of Cool
When is a trend not a trend? Or not just a trend, anyway. When does a trend become bigger than what you wear? The phenomenon of normcore might be a good place to start: that not-quite-minimalist,...
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Normcore is More than a Fashion Movement
As part of a two-day series on the subject of normcore, contributor Sandi Halimuddin writes on trends, accessibility, and the fashion industry’s commercialization of the idea. Normcore is a hot topic,...
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Learning to Love Rompers
Photo by Anton Oparin / Shutterstock.com Last year I hated rompers and overalls. I couldn’t stand to look at them, let alone to try them on in fitting rooms while shopping. Rompers, sometimes called...
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Narcissism: Or, The 7 Ways that Fashion Loves Itself
Feature image: Echo and Narcissus, John William Waterhouse; 1903, oil on canvas. Narcissism, that much maligned investment of love in the self, is a charge often thrown in the face of fashion and...
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Fashioning Your Own Kind of Girl
Feature image by Stefano Corso / CC 2.0. A woman breezed up to the Nars counter of Seattle’s downtown Nordstrom, insisting she wouldn’t take long: She already knew what she wanted. “I’m such a Nars...
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