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We\u2019re out until January 5, but we\u2019re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2014 while we\u2019re away. We hope you enjoy\u2014and have a happy New Year!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Wilshire Boulevard ca. 1959. Photo: Roger Wollstadt, via Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n

There were extenuating circumstances. I was in LA for work, and I had known, intellectually, that it would be warm in California\u2014hot, even. But when you\u2019re deep in a New York winter, who really thinks to pack a sundress?<\/p>\n

The lightest thing I had was a pair of jeans. So on a particularly Saharan afternoon, I ducked into a thrift store and grabbed a cotton dress off the rack without trying it on. When I got back to my room and changed, I noticed that the dress was brief. It wasn\u2019t until I had donned my sandals that I realized the dress was in fact too small for me. Oh well, I thought. Better to look silly than to burn, as Saint Paul would most certainly not have said.<\/p>\n

The bus let me off some distance from my destination. I didn\u2019t mind; I like to walk. But I was the only pedestrian on that stretch of Santa Monica. Then, as the wind whipped my flimsy skirt up around my thighs, motorists started honking. One car slowed so the driver could catcall me.<\/p>\n

If you think this is flattering\u2014and no woman reading this does\u2014think again. Read More >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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