
They've also been a crash course in basic math: Since the arrival of this coronavirus, people have been asked to count the meters and feet that separate one nose from the next they’ve tabulated the days that distance them from their most recent vaccine dose, calculated the minutes they can spend unmasked, and added up the hours that have passed since their last negative test. The past two and a half years have been a global crash course in infection prevention.

Almost all of her early designs featured some kind of huge, puffy sleeve according to a lengthy profile in The New Yorker published that September, the custom-made dress that inspired Hay’s line had enough space in the shoulders to store a few tennis balls.īatsheva dresses aren’t for everyone.

The clothing designer Batsheva Hay’s eponymous brand was barely two years old, but her high-necked, ruffle-trimmed, elbow-covering dresses in dense florals and upholstery prints-bizarro-world reimaginings of the conservative frocks favored by Hasidic Jewish women and the Amish-had developed a cult following among weird New York fashion-and-art girls. As best as I can tell, the puff-sleeve onslaught began in 2018.
