Fashion Theory According to RHONY

Prompt No. 17: Balsam Farms, bildungsroman, boredom

Indeed.

Fashion theory is tedious. Sifting through the hot takes of dead white men from the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries, what with their convoluted prose and tendency to belabor every point, requires a certain zeal. Out of that devotion comes an understanding of fashion’s role as a reflection of current social and political ideals; the acceptance …