Are You Truly Ready to Ascend to Housecoat Level?
We speak here of the dowdy. The cotton-poly blend. The bland pastel floral with faux-pearl snaps. Armor worn by everyone from Nanas to Meemaws.
Emily Flake is a cartoonist, writer, performer, and illustrator living in Brooklyn, NY. She is the author of "That Was Awkward: The Art and Etiquette of the Awkward Hug," "These Things Ain't Gonna Smoke Themselves," and "Mama Tried." Her cartoons appear regularly in The New Yorker, and her work has also appeared in Mad, The New York Times, The New Statesman, The Wall Street Journal, The Globe and Mail.
We speak here of the dowdy. The cotton-poly blend. The bland pastel floral with faux-pearl snaps. Armor worn by everyone from Nanas to Meemaws.
He hangs the skin carefully on a manikin and covers his true skin with a protective layer of mucus---the air is very harsh on his delicate scales.