When I began writing this piece, I was sitting on my parents’ back porch in a pair of linen track shorts with a loose elastic waist, a seam in the crotch that blessedly didn’t…
For me and my humble wardrobe, it’s been a summer of alterations. This is really just a fancy way of saying that in the last few months I’ve made two pairs of cut-offs and…
When we talk about ethical clothing, we’re often talking about how clothes get made. We ask questions about the where and the what and the who of what happens before clothes are ever worn.…
It’s a chief joy of mine to find something that someone else discarded and to make it mine. One woman’s trash becomes another’s treasure and not much of anything goes to waste. With the…
This post and giveaway is sponsored by Bridge & Burn, makers of classic apparel for men and women. The light in the evening lately is, in a word, glorious. When James and I steal quiet…
This post is sponsored by thredUP, a secondhand shopping website selling high-quality, like-new clothes for a fraction of the price. On any given day of January you might find me opening my tiny notebook and…
The past week or two has felt like something of a make-believe spring in Brooklyn. We’ve had unseasonably warm days flanked by seasonably chilly ones. Bodegas are filled with daffodil blooms, tree pits are…
This giveaway is sponsored by Bridge & Burn, makers of classic and understated apparel for men and women. It’s officially cold-weather season. I know a lot of people relish the time of year that…
This post is sponsored by Tradlands, a Made-in-America shirt company making some of the very best button-ups for women.Write a blog for long enough and it’s admittedly a little hard not to sound like a…
I wear overalls.You might say that overalls don’t follow the rules. That a minimalist wardrobe needs to be filled with things that are more flexible, more basic, more easily layered and paired with other things. But…