Runway ready

Considering that its main purpose is to stop other people from seeing us naked, people can get way too worked up about clothes . It’s fair enough to care about fashion, but we can’t pretend that the fabric we drape over our bodies is anything more than something to protect our soft, fragile, hairless flab from the unforgiving elements. That said, there are some items of clothing that those with any kind of stance on style can only recoil from. It’s far too easy for fashion to go too far, and th…

Fashion is funny. The other night at karaoke I saw two women dressed like a post-9/11 nightmare. Those child-proof bandanas you can tie. Their G-string thongs peeking from their heinously low-rise jeans. Baby-sized baby pink tees with Abercrombie logos. As a millennial who was denied all of these things by a strict mother , it brought back some serious feelings. Fashion choices, such as these, can inspire a lot of emotions and reactions. Anger. Sadness. And most hilariously, disgust and mockery…

One of the lesser talked about truths about being in a relationship is that there’s probably always going to be one person in a couple who’s always better dressed. Obviously, this doesn’t have to be a big deal; so long as both parties are comfortable with each other’s choices, there is no need to worry about the opinion of your friend who wants you to dump them. That said, this can change when things get more high stakes. For your average fancy date night, you might expect that your partner wou…

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