5 Things You Should Buy

5 Things You Should Buy

Don't Let Your Striped Tee Define You!

My effort to preserve an essential basic.

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Becky Malinsky
Aug 18, 2024
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Your t-shirt stack of “basics” probably includes black, white, grey and stripes at this point, no? Maybe navy or red thrown in there too? What is it that makes stripes on par with your perfect white tee or stack of jeans? The pattern is so ubiquitous it almost doesn’t even register as a print.

But I recently went to a friend’s apartment for a playdate w…

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