Jayda Tupea #18 Women’s Volleyball shirt

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Daylight that mythical Jayda Tupea #18 Women’s Volleyball shirt creature mostly glimpsed out of the office window in the 27 months since Christmas, now stretches into the evenings. On the street, the candy-sweet chime of the ice-cream van harmonises with the lazy hum of Lime bikes. This can mean only one thing. The time has come. You open your wardrobe and reach for a floral dress. It is a rite of spring. Except that every year this precious moment is tarnished, just a little bit, by the voice in your head that insists on snarkily quoting The Devil Wears Prada. You know the line. “Florals? For spring? Groundbreaking,” says fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly, withering a million ditsy prints on the vine without even raising her voice. But you know what? I want to wear a floral print dress when spring springs. So sue me. It is not reinventing the wheel, I get that, but it’s not supposed to be. Florals for spring isn’t about fashion, which is why fashion people are sniffy about them. Florals for spring is a ritual, a marker of time passing, a celebration of having got through another winter. Like taking the umbrella out of your bag and replacing it with a pair of sunglasses, it is as much a statement of hope as of expectation.

Jayda Tupea #18 Women’s Volleyball shirt, hoodie, sweater, longsleeve and ladies t-shirt

Unisex tshirt

Women’s tshirt

Longsleeve tshirt

Sweaters

Hoodies

Other reviewers seem Jayda Tupea #18 Women’s Volleyball shirt somewhere between human and machine. A commenter copies the entire first verse of Justin Bieber’s Sorry into a review for a multicoloured midi skirt with a thigh slit. (No information about the skirt; five stars.) One customer appears to paste a high-school English paper (strained poetry analysis) into the comments of a raglan sleeve letter jacket tagged as “gorpcore”. Another describes the smell of her new jeans as “normal”. I read three sets of five-star reviews posted by the same woman under a listing for long-sleeve crop tops in a variety of colours: “I absolutely love these Shein tops!! Very short though!!!!!” “I absolutely love these Shein tops! Very short though!!” “I absolutely love these Shein tops!!!!” In one of them, the shirt in the photograph is not of the product being reviewed. Seven hundred and eighty-eight customers mark her reviews as helpful. Away from the computer, I began to look more closely at strangers’ outfits, trying to imagine where they had come from. The neon-green bikini my friend from high school wore once on Instagram, never to be seen again – Shein? (OK, almost definitely.) But that sweater, which looked suspiciously like a minor designer piece I saved up for months to purchase for myself – was that Shein, too? Was the whole world shopping at Shein?