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    Unitard

    by Jenn Shapland Jun 22, 2020 2 minutes

    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 bought my unitard online at a time when I was broke and shouldn’t have been buying anything. It’s. The unitard is a portal to existing only and fully inside myself.

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