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Giacomo Bagnara Why Is There Financing for Everything Now?
Are the new online services that allow you to buy jeans or shampoo in installments—interest-free—too good to be true?
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Giacomo Bagnara America’s Most Hated Garment
Not even a pandemic will silence the sweatpants scolds.
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Asia Pietrzyk Christmas Dies Hard
The middle of a global pandemic might seem like a good time to cut back on holiday excess. But we live in America.
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Asia Pietrzyk Americans Got Tired of Looking Bad on Zoom
The pandemic’s at-home workers are discovering what internet influencers have long known: If you want to be taken seriously, get good lighting.
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Asia Pietrzyk Why Americans Have Turned to Nesting
If we’re going to be inside, it might as well be the inside we want.
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Asia Pietrzyk Generation Work-From-Home May Never Recover
The social and economic costs borne by young people without offices
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Asia Pietrzyk The End of Open-Plan Everything
Personal space is finally back in style, but re-creating it after two decades of its destruction is hardly a straightforward task.
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Asia Pietrzyk The End of Minimalism
Keeping a cluttered house has long been considered a little tacky, a little weak. But now it’s looking very wise.
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ASIA PIETRZYK Americans Have Baked All the Flour Away
The pandemic is reintroducing the nation to its kitchens.
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Asia Pietrzyk After the Pandemic, the Office Dress Code Should Never Come Back
Are “fancy” sweatpants here for good?
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Asia Pietrzyk It’s All So … Premiocre
What do fake Eames chairs, extra legroom, and $40 scented candles have in common?
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Giacomo Bagnara Why the Restoration Hardware Catalog Won’t Die
The surprising persistence of the mail-order business
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GIACOMO BAGNARA The New Trophies of Domesticity
For many young Americans, stability and sophistication look like a KitchenAid mixer.
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Giacomo Bagnara Stop Believing in Free Shipping
How retailers hide the costs of delivery—and why we’re such suckers for their ploys
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GIACOMO BAGNARA What Happens When You Buy From Gift Guides
Every website wants to pick out your mom’s next cashmere sweater.
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Giacomo Bagnara The Zombie Storefronts of America
If retail is dying, then pop-up shops might be what replace it.
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Bob Jacobson / Getty / The Atlantic I Joined a Stationary-Biker Gang
Peloton aficionados say the latest exercise craze gives them a sense of community they sorely missed.
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Adolescent Content / Jamie Pearl / Getty Tattoos Now Have an Exit Strategy
An Instagram-friendly option for people wary of forever
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic I Gooped Myself
I spent $1,279 of The Atlantic’s money on creams, crystals, and a vibrator from Gwyneth Paltrow’s wellness empire. Things got weird.
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Peter Cade / Ascent Xmedia / Getty Canned Cocktails Give Millennials What They’ve Always Desired
The perfect drink for a medium-fancy generation
