215 Ease

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The mirror didn’t care what I thought should be there. Steroids, weight, a body that changed without permission — none of that was the real difficulty. The difficulty was the gap: the distance between what the mirror showed and what I expected to see by now. That gap is where getting dressed stops being getting dressed and starts being negotiation. Lakyn Carlton calls it expertise — knowing to the millimetre what hides and what shows, and choosing. The fitted answer is the Leo from Bella Loves Patterns, cut in a red cross-grain pinstripe cotton lawn from SR Harris : stand collar, full placket, a shirt that reads as authority. Narrow shoulders shift the armscye out of place — Sandra…