One of my favorite things about winter besides layers, holiday food, Christmas music and Christmas in general is that I can wear a sweatshirt over anything and it cancels out my need to wear a bra. There. I said it. I’m no feminist, but I hate bras. Not in the bra-burning, don’t shave your armpits kind of way because that’s just nasty. But because, as Lily Aldrin so perfectly put it “It’s a boobie zoo.” Or maybe it was Robin who said it, I don’t remember. Anyway, the other night, I was very comfortable in my hanes tapered leg sweat pants and my Police concert t-shirt (I’m a huge fan of concert t-shirts because no matter how ratty they get, they’re always legit) and I wanted to go get something to eat but I almost didn’t leave my house and chose to nearly starve to death because I didn’t want to put on a bra. Call it lazy or whatever you like, but girls, you know once you take that thing off, the only way it’s going back on is if your house is on fire and good-looking, single firemen are on their way to your house to put it out.

I was equally as hungry as I was apathetic about being braless, so I left my house anyway determined to only hit a drive through so that it wouldn’t be as obvious that my boobs weren’t corralled in a Vicotria Secret-sponsored home. However, I decided to be nice and go get my mom a container of soup from the market instead of the Wendy’s chili she insisted on because she was apparently coming down with swine flu. I would be lying if I said I was the only woman in there not wearing a bra, but I wasn’t alone. Because moments within stepping foot into the store, I saw an apparently challenged woman ambush a store employee screaming “SIR! I ONLY HAVE ONE THING LEFT ON MY LIST AND IT’S CREAM CHEESE. WHERE DO I FIND CREAM CHEESE.” On any other day, this woman and I would not have anything in common. But today, we had both ventured out into the general public, living out the dreams of 1960s feminists.

This said, I cannot wait until it’s cold enough to wear sweatshirts before the sun goes down. Because I plan on getting a lot of use out of my college sweatshirt. There’s a huge applique over the chest which makes for extra camouflage.