When I was growing up, our family had a spoken mix of British English/American English/Irishisms/French and Kiswahili extras. Some of the books I I read mentioned the washing of "smalls" AKA underwear. Grateful that this essay has nothing to do with that.
"Libfix" is a useful word that I hadn't known I needed, so thanks for that. "Smallwashing" made me think (tangentially) of the 2007 documentary "Helvetica," from which the main takeaway (for me, anyway) had to do with the pretentiousness of appearing to be unpretentious.
When I was growing up, our family had a spoken mix of British English/American English/Irishisms/French and Kiswahili extras. Some of the books I I read mentioned the washing of "smalls" AKA underwear. Grateful that this essay has nothing to do with that.
"Libfix" is a useful word that I hadn't known I needed, so thanks for that. "Smallwashing" made me think (tangentially) of the 2007 documentary "Helvetica," from which the main takeaway (for me, anyway) had to do with the pretentiousness of appearing to be unpretentious.