You just have to throw on a fancy top.

Boden online. They sell almost all of their dresses in talls if you need them, but because it’s a British brand, almost all the dresses are a ladylike “Duchess Kate” knee-length (or slightly below).

When I turned 40, I basically stopped wearing pants entirely (except for yoga pants and running shorts). I have an hourglass figure, and always looked terrible in separates. Dresses are way more comfortable than pants or skirts, and a little retro classy at the same time.

During the Baltimore riots after Freddy Grey’s murder, I shocked and horrified my racist in-laws while we were watching the news at my house. They started to make some comment about the people who were rioting, and I made a point to interrupt them to say that I was glad that people were fighting the injustice and…

No, he was good on SNL! Unless that was pre-recorded or something, I dunno ...

So I’m actually excited to see this, because I’m 41 so I’ve seen all the original Unpluggeds when they first aired, and I have a bit of a crush on Sean Mendes (I know it’s wrong).

Actually, I saw him perform on SNL earlier this year, and because I am an old, I had no idea who he was, but I was like, that kid is pretty hot, but is he even legal? He’s a good live performer. My children clued me in as to who he is, and now they sing me “Treat You Better” while their dad plays it on guitar. Life is…

I literally can’t find an actual photo of a real person wearing one of these - even on the retailer’s website. They can’t even get a model to wear one to sell the product? I still don’t really understand how this works.

I ate at Oceanaire when I first moved to DC in 2002/2003. At the time, it was pretty swanky and popular, though overpriced. I did enjoy it at the time.

I also became pregnant while switching from one pill to another AND using condoms. We were both very educated, adult and experienced. My OB/GYN told us that even though the condom box says they’re around 98% effective, she has found that it’s more like 80% with actual use (with the number of unplanned pregnancies…

The strangest one of these that I’ve ever heard is from my mother-in-law, who is an older white lady in the deep South, and who taught in a highly integrated school for many years - she’s also unfortunately a very stereotypically “polite” racist, who doesn’t think her statements are racist - e.g., “all black people…

Oh, and I can’t believe I forgot to mention this one:

Can we please start an old wives’ tales thread? My family is Croatian, and also with the socks - my grandmother spoke like 3 words of English, and you can bet one of them was socks.

The evil eye - I’m dying! That should have been in the “European Americans” section, because my grandmother used to sincerely believe in that shit (we’re from southern Europe).

I always think of “no eye contact” being more of a city/country thing. I’m from NYC, and when I used to gaze out the car window in gridlock traffic as a kid, my brother would tell me to stop staring at people, because it would piss them off and might start a fight (regardless of the race of the people in the car next…

I’ve worked for a couple of law firms with Indian Law practice groups, and I used to design their marketing materials. In the early aughts, I was designing a brochure for this practice group. The partners at our progressive, L.A.-based firm had named the group “Native American Law.” We had an associate who was…

I’m from NY originally, so I figured it was a “New Amsterdam” reference, but I assumed it was created in NY - didn’t know it was actually from the Netherlands!

Seriously - every time I’ve gotten pissed off at my husband and thought of ending my marriage of over a decade - I have drinks with my single friends, and decide that I just don’t ever want to have to date in this day and age, so I’m going to try to make the best of it.

Me too, but when I was single a decade ago in DC, I would sometimes schedule 2 “meet for drinks” dates in a night. I’m a night owl, what can I say? Despite my mercenary online dating practices, though, I actually met my husband the old-fashioned way, randomly, at my neighborhood bar, which I stopped at on the way home…

Noooooooooooooooooooo