Today I bought my first jegging.

Now I feel every one of my 56 years. I feel like the old lady who buys a super-basic cellphone to keep in touch with her grandchildren and brags about her new purchase to all her senior friends.

Apparently, "jeggings" (plural) is already in the dictionary. And retail people like to shorten "pants" to "pant" and " ( Read more... )

Thank you to all who responded to my previous message (ranting about the fragility of modern cotton knits). I still would like to know what's happening physically to the cloth, but I've also begun to muse about the bigger picture of used clothing in a society with an excess of everything ( Read more... )