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Lessons from hot girl jeans and retreating in Joshua Tree

“It is too much to ask to just put something on and go?” my friend Mel says to me the day after I go through her closet and weed out the clothes that she no longer wears, mostly things from college, her early to mid-twenties.

We are standing in her kitchen, eating breakfast after she drops off her two little girls at daycare. Me in a hand-me-down butto…