The Art of Dressing
A weekly-ish newsletter about fashion and personal style from a Gen X perspective.
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Short Women Who Love Clothes (opens the original)
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I like being short. I feel compact, I can curl up with my feet on the seat in coach on an airplane, I don’t need that much food, I drive a small car that’s easy to park (and I can fit easily in the trunk). Sometimes I wish I had a longer reach and didn’t have to climb the shelves to get high up items at Whole Foods, or that it was easier to steal fruit off trees that are hanging over the sidewalk (if you live in Berkeley you know what I mean), but overall I’m happy with my height.Lately I’ve bee
September Happenings (opens the original)
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Unintentionally Thin (opens the original)
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I Wore Stuff This Week (opens the original)
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I think my favorite posts on here are the real ones, where people share what they wore to do the stuff they do. Regular life and what we choose to wear for that. I’m always interested. It’s like getting to peer into people’s lamp-lit homes when I go for a walk at dusk. A small glimpse of domestic life that leaves enough mystery for my imagination to fill in the blanks. For some reason I’m prone to yearning, to watching from the outside, to wanting to plunge deeper into the unknown. It feels bett
Summer’s End is Just the Beginning (opens the original)
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The moon and stars hang out in bars just talkingI still love that picture of us walkingJust like that ol’ house we thought was hauntedSummer’s end came faster than we wanted - John PrineI’m the opposite of a type A personality but not in the appealing type B way, who are apparently laid back and easy going people. I’m both high strung and disorganized. I don’t always fulfill my goals as I lose interest in them long before they’re completed, so I’m proud that I wrote several weeks ago how my Subs
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