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Circling HomeWork #5

Happy Monday, and welcome back to HomeWork! ✨

Going into 2024, we are experimenting with a new format for this segment, branching out from strictly snapshots into the occasional essay. We’re spreading our Substack wings!

You’ll be getting these essays once a month from one of us, in between artist features. This one is from Krystiana. Comment section is usually limited to paid subscribers, but to christen our new series, it’s wide open today, baby. Please tell us your thoughts, your practices, your touchstone garments, and share this essay with a friend! Thank you for being here with us.

Like any good millennial, I subscribe to my share of newsletters. When one person I like features a person they like, I click through and check them out, and then sometimes I subscribe, and then sometimes I subscribe to their recommendations too, until my inbox is a sprawling family tree of chatty neo-bloggers. And that is how I, a normie, accidentally subscribed to a high-fashion shopping guide.

It took …