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- The Cut looked at the downfall of pioneering period-underwear company Thinx.
- BBC News noted that even though thrifting seems more popular than ever, it's hard to find pre-owned clothing businesses that turn a profit.
- Harvard Business Review explained what to do when a new boss makes you hate a job you once loved.
- The Washington Post (gift link) observed that dating apps have gotten so bad that speed dating has returned.
- The Wall Street Journal (gift link) looked at how women are making various decisions about their everyday lives by tracking their menstrual cycles with wearable devices and apps.
- The Wall Street Journal (gift link) also listed four relatively low-risk ways to take advantage of higher yields in the face of likely interest rate cuts later this year.
- NPR reported that the first over-the-counter birth control pill, Opill, is heading to stores.
- BuzzFeed asked three generations to interpret popular emojis and got very different answers. (Let's just ignore that the writer places “a 57-year-old” and “a late-50s” person in different generations. 💀)
- Your Laugh of the Week comes from McSweeney's, with “FAQs About Our Extremely Confusing and Unhelpful Sizing Guide.”
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Anonymous
The BBC article highlights a very real problem in the fashion industry: the overproduction of ultra-cheap and poor quality clothing. I think it’s a topic that should be discussed more, especially on fashion blogs in the age of such environmemtal concern.