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Billie Eilish is my fashion icon. I’m a middle-aged mom.
Here’s how a teenage music phenom inspired me to stop stressing about dressing
Laura Todd Carns
November 14, 2019
November 14, 2019
The Lily’s 2019 gift guide: The 35 coolest women-made gifts
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The Lily News
October 30, 2019
October 30, 2019
D.C. school dress codes unfairly target black girls, students say. Now they’re speaking up.
Some girls are organizing walkouts, lunchtime protests and meetings with administrators to call out dress codes they see as unfair
The Lily News
September 7, 2019
September 7, 2019
Perspective
When I was growing up, I was a tomboy who hated pink. Here’s why — and what’s different for kids today.
As we gain a better understanding of gender and sex as fluid concepts, fashion is also becoming more malleable
Katie Wheeler
August 28, 2019
August 28, 2019
A student wore a tuxedo for her senior portrait — and was left out of the yearbook
Alabama student Holley Gerelds’s case is just the latest in the debate about censoring portraits over dress codes
The Lily News
August 19, 2019
August 19, 2019
Perspective
A British writer disparaged Nike’s plus-size mannequins. Here are the many reasons she was wrong.
She voiced several pervasive — and false — stereotypes about fat people
Carrie Dennett
July 18, 2019
July 18, 2019
After backlash, Kim Kardashian West says she’ll rename ‘Kimono’ shapewear line
Many Japanese social media users accused Kardashian of appropriating their culture
The Lily News
July 2, 2019
July 2, 2019
Kim Kardashian’s new ‘Kimono’ shapewear sparks outrage in Japan
Many used the hashtag #KimOhNo to express their disgust and disappointment on social media
The Lily News
June 27, 2019
June 27, 2019
Perspective
The shoes I wore in junior high school are back. I know, because my 13-year-old daughter wants a pair.
Take a walk through any mall, and you may feel a strange sense that time has contracted
Sarah Maraniss Vander Schaaff
June 13, 2019
June 13, 2019
Perspective
The fashion industry gave Barbie an award. What does that signify?
A doll has meaning. But it should never stand in for the woman in all of her intelligent, grown-up, stylish complexity.
Robin Givhan
June 5, 2019
June 5, 2019
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