
Is Gen Z’s Modesty Trend Really a Sign of Control?
Somewhere on the corner of 57th and Lexington, I caught myself pausing at a crosswalk behind a girl in a chamomile-colored skirt that brushed her ankles despite the blistering summer heat. She wore a pearl-encrusted headband and thick white socks tucked into Mary Janes, her sweater — butter-yellow, cable-knit, and a size too big —…