If You Pleats

If You Pleats

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Window Shopping, 7.7.24 (Libraries)
I go places and write down the cool outfits I see.
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Running Thread, 6.30.24 (Made in Haiti)
I stitch some thoughts together.
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Clearance, 6.14.24 (Definitional Collection)
Making space in my mind.
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Window Shopping, 3.23.24 (Doc Martens)
I go places and write down the cool outfits I see.
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Warp and Weft, 2.16.24 (Jordan Coley of Jordan Show)
"…watching the movements of an arm punctuated in a French cuff is like watching a knife move through air."
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Coming soon
This is If You Pleats.
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Detail Shot, 1.19.24 (Double Features)
I close-read things.
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If You Pleats
If You Pleats
Thoughts on clothes and other things. New editions drop most Fridays.

If You Pleats

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