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Opinion | Break out the bowties: your clothing habits are reflective of your mental health

Opinion | Break out the bowties: your clothing habits are reflective of your mental health

By Grace McGinness, Staff Columnist November 10, 2019
Many stressors can pick away at a person’s mental health, but an unexpected factor may just be lurking in our own closets. And it’s not skeletons.
(Right: Cotton and whalebone corset, c. 1890, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
(Left: Trompe l’oeil corset dress, designed by Antonio Berardi, S/S 2009, worn by Gwyneth Paltrow © Sipa Press/ REX Shutterstock)

Professor unveils underwear’s history

By Zoe Pawliczek | Staff Writer November 2, 2017

Jessie B. Ramey showed more than 170 strangers a picture of herself in her underwear Thursday at the Frick, a Pittsburgh art museum in Point Breeze. “Don’t get too excited, this is me at the age...

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