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Spectacular piece! Hoping if I read & re-read I might get good adjectives by osmosis…

Just straight-up genius writing.

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My having a real job / real income briefly aligned with the existence of CoC and other hyperhip stores like Totokaelo and Opening Ceremony and Bird. (I remember your delightful takedowns of Bird and the Isabel Marant stores.) It was fun, for a while, to be able to afford *some* of the (lower-priced) clothes from those stores. But thrift shopping is fun, too. Actually, it’s more fun.

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Fashion interests me even less than Flat Earth dissertations, and yet your writing makes it interesting in a way I can't rightly explain. Maybe it's 'cause your so damn good. Lou you, gal!

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I cannot praise this article highly enough. This is Cintra Wilson melted down to pure gold, a concentrated Cintra Wilson not unlike a can of concentrated orange juice, except I have no desire to water this down. I’m teaching a university creative writing course in the Spring, and I’m gonna hand out this article on the very first day as an example to prove that every word counts. Your range of diction from “Mothra”to “semiotics” proves once again that you are The. Greatest. Living. Writer. Today. This opinion of mine is a hill I’m willing to die on…a Mothra-sized hill.

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Damn, she can write!

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The unhinged wooden clothespins. I know what those are and that they defy concise identification. Did the “unhinged” come to you in the first draft or much later?

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“Amish chicka-wah-wah: big unisex linen henley shirts ($135)”. That was 2010.

Today probably a steal @ $235.

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