Where Are the Weird Dogs, Indeed?

Prompt No. 63: Cool vs. Anti-Cool, Acquisitions, and Anna Wintour

Feb 23 • Jesica Elise

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Nobody Passes

Prompt No. 62: Identity, Imagination, and Trans-Border Solidarity

Feb 3 • Jesica Elise

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January 2026

Maybe I Am Not Me: Reconstructing Self for Uncertain Times

Prompt No. 61: bell hooks, Art, and Identity

Jan 12 • Jesica Elise

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December 2025

The Our Fear of Freedom: American Fashion and Fascism (Part II)

Prompt No. 60: The Disconcerting Consumption of Whiteness

Dec 15, 2025 • Jesica Elise

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September 2025

Our Fear of Freedom: American Fashion and Fascism (Part I)

Prompt No. 59: Those Tech Bros Signal Something Far Worse than Cringe

Sep 29, 2025 • Jesica Elise

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Beyond Polo’s Oak Bluffs

Acquisitions No. 4: Sign Values, Outsider Status, and the Whitest State in the Nation

Sep 8, 2025 • Jesica Elise

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August 2025

The Uncomfortable Truth of Ralph Lauren’s Oak Bluffs

Prompt No. 58: A Make-Believe World Gets a Makeover

Aug 11, 2025 • Jesica Elise

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July 2025

What My Mother's Pottery Taught Me

Acquisitions No. 3: Bohemianism, Rick Owens' Favorite Novel, and Handmade Lace Button Downs

Jul 21, 2025 • Jesica Elise

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Anna Wintour is Fashion's Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Other Stories

Prompt No. 58: That Venice Wedding, That Departure, and That Princess Treatment

Jul 6, 2025 • Jesica Elise

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June 2025

Deep Breath In: Finding Ourselves and The Middle Way in Fashion

Acquisitions No. 2: What Investing in Selfhood Teaches Us

Jun 18, 2025 • Jesica Elise

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Snagged: A Meditation (of Sorts) on Buddhism and Fashion

Prompt No. 57: We're back and I wrote this entire piece without a single Victoria Ratcliff quote.

Jun 1, 2025 • Jesica Elise

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March 2025

We Understand It and We Don't

Acquisitions No. 1: Postmodern Consumption Case Study, Free Resources, Duran Lantink Fall 2025 Runway, and a Flamin' Hot Cheeto

Mar 10, 2025 • Jesica Elise

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