HeyJaredThe Hardware Store
ex-lawyer, flat shoe wearer, writing about ways to wear stuff and things See you Friday
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Must Wear Pants to Leave the House (opens the original)
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When Did Taste Become a Credential? (opens the original)
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Over the last month or so, two big things happened to me: First, I acquired a new piece of art. This feels monumental because I’ve spent six years staring at a blank wall in our dining room. Over time, I grew obsessed with one particular artist. Owning a piece of hers felt like a figment of the imagination for a whatever-level-is-below-amateur art collector like me. But nothing I saw ever compared, so the wall sat unaccompanied. Years and years later, one of her big, quirky, melancholic, thought
If There Can Only Be One (opens the original)
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Why settle on one topic when you can have a rambling stream of consciousness all week long…..My working hypothesis is that successful September dressing can be distilled down to two equations: fall outfit (denim, pants, jackets, etc.) + summer shoe (sandals, flippies) OR summer outfit (shorts, capris, short sleeves, etc.) + fall shoe (ballets, loafers, sneakers).Speaking of shoes, I’m convinced foot size is not talked about enough in the Great Transition shoe discourse re: I have small feet so I
Don’t Lose Yourself in the Fall Frenzy (opens the original)
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Hi hi! How are you? I hope you’ve had a sweet, meaningful summer. I’m so happy to be in your inbox after a couple weeks soaking up the August sun. We spent the end of sunny season at the cottage with family, a quick turnaround, then a trip to the Northern Canadian woods. I came home from the back-to-backs with that feeling of happy summer exhaustion, along with the first time of feeling ready (kind of, not really) to settle into a regular “back-to-school” routine.Plodding along on a trail run wh
Collectors Club (opens the original)
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The other day, I was scrolling while eating my lunch. I’ll be the first to admit my inability to enjoy a midday lunch in silence is a terrible habit - I either write or scroll through it. I blame it on one of two eras of my life: the first, when lunch at leisure was a figment of the imagination because I billed in 0.1-hour lawyer increments, or the seco… Read more
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