I Got a $14.90 Uniqlo Tank Top Tailored To Perfection
The rare occasion I bought something brand new....ok fine, I bought 5(!) of these tanks.
Last week, I was walking around in 80-degree weather in Soho, wearing a vintage silk leopard print Blumarine top that, quite frankly, was rancid. There is something about sweating in the dry-clean-only top that doesn’t feel actually clean; like swimming in a lingering film of filth. Horrified and marinating in this top, I made a rare pit (hah!) stop at Uniqlo. I needed something quick, basic, and cheap.
As I was bumbling around Uniqlo—a place packed like sardines—I spotted the quintessential basic among all the basics: a tank top with a boat neck that was a gotta-get-it $14.90. I immediately snapped it up in the palest of sky blues. (Needing to shed my festering Blumarine top, I waited for eons in the dressing room line to change into the tank.) That Uniqlo top was soldered to me for the next three days. On the third day, still basking in the top, I bought four more of these tanks in each color: black, white, light and precious baby pink, and Hershey brown. I loved the neckline and the fact that the fabric didn’t feel like one-ply toilet paper, but there was something irking me: the length was too long.