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Dressed to impress at Ride the Tide
Photo by Ian Holloway Ride the Tide is coming, and the year is going. Walking to brunch with my roommate Sunday morning, I watched her look down at the sports shorts and flannel she was wearing and...
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Remembering as we say goodbye (and clothes?)
I started working at Paces my freshman fall. I was a server, and I spent my shift running back and forth across the room wrapped up in my own exciting life: on edge because my crush would come for his...
View ArticleOn the menu: fresh aesthetic for all
Hey, this is To Serve. Maybe you’re confused, because until this article, I wrote a column called Hi! Fashion (R.I.P.). Fashion is endlessly interesting to me, and so it took me three semesters of...
View ArticleMaking a home, despite institutional directives
Part of the challenge of college, in my experience, is how to conceptualize school as home and not as a giant machine that is out to get you, as a machine that forces you into its patterns and crams...
View ArticleDecadence: the alternative luxuries in a schoolgirl’s repertoire
I woke up a few mornings ago and lay listless in bed, watching the minutes in which I could have picked out my fabulous outfit tick by. I was lacking inspiration to move, to dress, to commence...
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The adventures of Zena, ultimate internet girl
The way we use technology, and certainly social media, is focused on a stylized and curated presentation of the self. Because the self we present via technology has time and space in which to form...
View ArticleFrom dreams to reality: waking up, making up
Stereotypically, creative acts take place in the depths of the night, when the world is asleep and a single soul’s inspiration, like a lightning bolt sent down specially by God, strikes! But there is a...
View ArticleDoing something in our activewear, just not exercise
I was babysitting early in the morning for a while last summer, in an affluent NYC neighborhood, and I started to stop by the local Trader Joe’s before heading home. I was usually there around 8:30...
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