There's a version of this story where the going-out top makes a comeback because a runway said so. That's not this story. This one starts on a Tuesday, in a dorm room, with a top that was too much for a Tuesday — and a girl who wore it anyway.

"We stopped dressing for the room and started dressing for the version of ourselves who was already in it."

What's changed isn't the silhouette. It's the permission structure — who gets to decide what's "too much," and why that person is, increasingly, just her.

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