Can I Wear Harem Pants? Or, Thoughts on Orientalism, Feminist

Reader Ginna at Feet Chic sent me an email last week. (Head right over to her visually arresting blog chronicling chic street style footwear of all kinds!) She asked what I thought about “harem” pants.  She had seen them named as a trend in a style blog she reads and immediately felt “sick to [her] stomach.” No, it wasn’t the […]

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