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Longer Skirts, Tighter Economy

When Fear Starts Dressing Us By Rhea El-Madhoun El-Yafi Graphic by Catarina Koehler Forget Vogue; the stock market has always been fashion’s most accurate trend forecaster. When times get tough, hemlines fall, palettes mute and luxury goes quiet. Welcome to the return of recession chic, where conservatism isn’t just a political stance, it’s a look. In the 1920s, economist George Taylor came up with the “hemline index,” which is the idea that skirt lengths rise when the ec

Rhea El-Madhoun El-Yafi

A Race To The Bins

Let’s remember who thrift stores are for. By Sophia Ong Photograph by Mia Bianco It’s difficult to be on social media and avoid the rapidly growing “thrift culture” being cultivated online. Influencers stand in their sleek Los Angeles apartments and show off their bags upon bags of thrift store finds, and their voiceovers detail journeys to the Goodwill bins where they describe these “insane finds.” Not only am I a consumer of this kind of content, but I’m also a consumer o

Sophia Ong

Canada Goose: BU’s Unofficial Winter Uniform

Not sponsored — rather, questioning campus fashion. By Lheeya Jayasudha Mathivanan Photograph by Tsega Seleshi With summer slipping away and denim shorts getting buried in my closet, I knew Boston’s cold was creeping in. Out came the puffers and the UGGs, ready to dominate winter fashion. Comm Ave, after all, doubles as the campus runway, with each season debuting a new collection. The winter is no exception to this, and there is one jacket that dominates the BU show: the C

Lheeya Jayasudha Mathivanan