Weekend Reads is a series by Wardrobe Oxygen that is published every Saturday. Art, music, interesting articles, sale alerts, and reviews of TV, movies, books, theater, and art exhibits by Alison Gary, and over-40 working mom in the Maryland Suburbs of Washington, D.C.
Weekend Reads Does having bad morals really make you ugly? (Dazed Beauty) Abortion influences everything. (Vox) Latest sneakers I bought: The New Balance 327. Roomy enough for my wide feet, the sole going up the back reminds me of Loewe sneakers, so many cool colors. America’s happiness score drops amid a youth ‘midlife crisis’. (Washington…
The moral case for letting trans kids change their bodies. (Intelligencer) What the hell is a stylist? (Articles of Interest) What’s going on with Oprah? (Burnt Toast) Why prices of the world’s most expensive handbags keep rising. (Wall Street Journal – gift article) How designer clothes make it to your wardrobe. (Washington Post – gift…
Weekend Reads Thank you to Marsha in the Middle for a mention on her blog! (Marsha in the Middle) You may recognize Marsha from my Miami Fitwear swim review! Women may get a bigger longevity boost from exercise than men. (Washington Post – gift article) Why we’re more exhausted than ever. (Time) How caregivers are…
Weekend Reads How tattoos helped me love my body. (Jennifer Magazine) The consequences of (not so) casual sexual assault. (The Audacity) My mother got on a bike. It changed her life. (New York Times – gift article) How wearable should clothes in a fashion show be? (The Back Row) All pets go to heaven. She…
Weekend Reads The loneliness of Jodie Foster. (The Atlantic – gift article) How foraging taught me middle-aged self-acceptance. (Outside) Return fraud is a rampant problem for both shoppers and retailers — and the mishaps often make for viral videos on TikTok. (New York Times – gift article) Maker of Tinder, Hinge sued over ‘addictive’ dating…
Keep your feedback about the update of this site coming! This week, I have been playing with the font. Many of you found the font too light, and I changed the color to black, but the thin style was still hard to read, especially on mobile. While the current font isn’t, as my daughter says,…
Weekend Reads Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands. (AP) Victoria Monét’s Grammy moment: The singer on nearly quitting music, working while giving birth and finally seizing the spotlight. (Variety) Culture can too often drive us apart. At the Grammys on Sunday, two artists delivered…
Weekend Reads #274 Explorer may have found wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s plane in Pacific. (Reuters) Grant program for Black women comes under tough questioning in key anti-DEI lawsuit. (AP) Millennials don’t know what to wear. Gen Z has thoughts. (New York Times – gift article) Activists are organizing to combat generative AI and other technologies—and…
I am still tinkering with the blog. It is both infuriating but also exhilarating. I have done site renovations in the past, but I paid a company thousands of dollars to do it, and then I sent them a punch list to fix anything I found wrong. I paid someone to install the new theme…