This Old Thing?

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Former gossip columnist Ben Widdicombe discusses the already-clichéd idea of "shopping your closet" for The Moment: "I don’t know what’s in the back of your closet, but I have some doozies in mine. Can we discuss the 2000 purchase of a steel-gray Alexander McQueen one-pocket short-sleeve shirt? It does up on a spiral, so that the buttons dive from the neck under the right armpit, then diagonally down the back and finish on the left hip. Wearing it again, I am reminded that I liked the square shoulders and sheer front. But still, the overall effect brings to mind a sous chef on the Death Star." Um, is Ben Widdicombe testing for Critical Shopper? [The Moment]