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The weekly(ish) Substack newsletter about fashion history, secondhand style, and all things vintage.

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  • Fashion as Resistance

    It’s never just clothes, and it never has been

    October 2023

  • How to Wear: a Skirt Over Pants

    without looking like you’re ready to accept your Teen Choice award

    February 2025

  • Is This Vintage?

    A crash course in accessing vintage vs contemporary at a glance

    September 2023

  • OxiClean Left Me On Read

    Live, Laugh, Oxygen Bleach

    March 2024

  • What's Up With All the Tiny Vintage?

    And why we need to stop saying “everyone was just smaller back then”

    September 2023

  • Who's Who at the Whobilation

    Winter dressing inspiration from an unlikely fashion destination

    Dec 2024

  • Colonization Cosplay: The Dark History of an Iconic Mall Brand

    Exploitation core and the suburban safari fantasy

    November 2024

  • The Guide to Packing Light

    I'm allergic to the domestic baggage carousel

    March 2024

  • Made in America

    A brief history of the life & death of domestic apparel manufacturing

    October 2023

  • "Flattering"

    Why I’ve been working on removing the word from my fashion vocabulary

    November 2023

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Costumes, culture, and how Hollywood has shaped American fashion
Costumes, culture, and how Hollywood has shaped American fashion

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