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T-Shirt

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’ve had only three semi-presentable shirts to wear throughout the quarantine: a white v-neck, a striped crewneck, and a striped v-neck—that last

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