Ditching the Republican-wife wrap dresses is easy, but can I say goodbye to my mother’s unwearable 196os boots?I’m spring cleaning and last week filled eight huge boxes with clothes during a once-in-a-decade pass through my wardrobe. We put these things off for a reason: the time it takes, and more than that, what we have learned to call the emotional labour. Going through old stuff, whatever the particulars, threatens to drag us back through the years, but the wardrobe thing is particularly... Read this story
