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Ultimately, Intimations feels less like a precise attempt to document the COVID-19 era than a more abstract meditation on time: who is given it, who has it taken from them, and what its sudden presence or absence can lead to. "Time is how you spend your love," Smith wrote in her 2005 novel On Beauty—quoting a poem by her own husband, Nick Laird—and Intimations functions impressively as a document of the mixed blessing of time, as well as a searing excoriation of a society that has always apportioned it unevenly. Both Chiswell and McNeilly speak of not shopping, but collecting. To be a vintage shopper, you have to have a magpie mindset. The The Clemson Tigers 125th Anniversary 1896-2021 Signatures Thank You For The Memories Shirt scour Etsy, Ebay, estate sales, auction houses, thrift stores, and vintage stores together. “I have close to maybe 100 true vintage pieces of clothing, and 50 reproductions,” Chiswell says. “That’s false. You have at least 220 vintage and so many regular reproduction dresses,” McNeilly says, and Chiswell laughs. Men’s clothes are harder to find (“A lot of men wore their clothes until they basically broke,” Chiswell says). Chiswell collects wiggle dresses. Her favorite is from Ceil Chapman, a ’50s designer who made dresses for Monroe. She collects belts, particularly ones made from pure copper, and has several she purchased at auction that belonged to Loretta Young, an actress in the ’40s and ’50s. They’re wrapped up delicately, and from what I can tell, are rarely, if ever, worn. “We were scared to unwrap it,” Chiswell says, unwrapping a cream-color belt with reverence. “When they were packaged [at the auction house], someone broke one of the buckles.” On her TikTok, she chronicles the intricacies of fashion treasures she’s found, from a 1880s coin purse to a never-opened set of false lashes from the 1950s.