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I’ve reached that part of the pandemic where I live in muumuus, athleisure is now fancy, and I don’t remember jeans. I know my newfound style is not unique these days, so when I saw someone wearing a sequined evening gown on Twitter, it was a shock.
She wasn’t a celebrity primping
at home for the Golden Globes, so where could she be going? Turns out she was getting all decked out for the best possible reason: her COVID-19 vaccine.
I reached out to the woman in the picture, Ashlie Atkinson, and she told me by phone she had bought the long green dress pre-pandemic to wear to a later-canceled 2020 gala for her roller derby league. When I asked her why she wanted to dress up to get the shot she said, “I just wanted to celebrate the joyousness of the occasion and I wanted to bring some joy to people who have been working long hours.”