In January 2019, I stood outside the New York Public Library for a charity gala, vibrating with cold and pure, unadulterated regret. I was wearing these gorgeous, spindly velvet pumps that cost more than my monthly grocery budget. Within three…
Tag: winter fashion
Salt is the absolute worst. It’s not just the way it looks—that white, crusty ring that makes your $400 boots look like they were fished out of a shipwreck—it’s what it does to the fibers. Salt is like a microscopic…
It was February 2019 in Chicago. The “Polar Vortex” year. I was standing on the Brown Line platform at Chicago and Franklin, waiting for a train that the CTA app swore was two minutes away for at least fifteen minutes….