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The Rumpus Interview with Women in Clothes
The Rumpus speaks to Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, and Leanne Shapton about Women in Clothes, a new collection of essays and art on the intricacies of femininity and clothing choices.
Coats
I had my first affair when I was twenty and didn’t own a lot of nice clothes yet. I have a photo he took of me, sitting on a plastic chair outside an abandoned steel mill. In it, I’m wearing a coat with some kind of gray weave, something smaller than houndstooth. It fit me but didn’t; I wasn’t old enough to know how to wear it.