Close-reading the reruns with Phoebe Maltz Bovy

The uniform

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Jan 25, 2026
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The world is conspiring to make me dress badly. By the world I mostly mean the weather. I vowed to wear better boots, which brought on slush season. Then I had this notion that I’d start wearing skirts, and put approximately $100 CAD plus $40 for shockingly effective tailoring to owning three new-to-me, of-this-era (but yes, used) skirts, which is why i…

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