May 22, 2026
Marked Down
How should a sequel’s costumes be?
This might just be the most cynical—and thus true-to-life—entry in the Woman With a Magazine Job canon.
Nicole Lipman
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On SHEIN
Deep in the product reviews for a pair of $15 gray sweatpants, one commenter writes, bafflingly: “I love these grey sweatpants ever since i received them out of the shein package. They go with almost everything and nice and baggy on my body. The color is easy to wash and can go with coloreds and whites which is very helpful in laundry.” Below, three photos are attached. They show three different women in three different pairs of pants, none of which match the product listing.
The red-pilled among us might argue that the Pleats themselves made me trans.
Miyake’s Layers
September 16, 2022
Miyake’s Layers
Contemporary fashion often seems to be in mourning for itself
Yesterday’s Pleats are in tomorrow’s seafood (microplastics, it seems, tend to proliferate in mollusks like scallops, mussels and oysters, fancy girl food and treif alike). Of all the myriad toxicities of microplastics, I was most tickled to learn that they are estrogenic and lower sperm count; the red-pilled among us might argue that the Pleats themselves made me trans.
September 7, 2020
I can’t help but hope for some other, better New York.
68 Jay St. #405, Part I
March 12, 2020
My Lanyarded Brethren
Report from AWP 2020
AWP 2020, sparsely attended compared to the usually robust turnout in years’ past, was spread out on a soft teal green carpet that looked a little like grass. Rows of bright white tables, some empty, others covered in books and candy and tote bags, formed aisle after aisle. Planted in the middle of the broad avenues, where guests wandered, dazed or determined, were old-timey benches presumably for guests to sit and read under the fluorescent lights.
