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Shiny Black Boots

This essay is part of Fashion in Isolation, a special issue on the intimate, contradictory, and ultimately inescapable relationship we have to what we wear.

I don’t have a favorite article of clothing. Having a favorite anything is for kids, if you ask me. Clothing is like regular old speech, and I don’t

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