The Clothes We Wore When

Shoppers carry their purchases as they walk though the steam coming from the underground along Fifth Avenue on Black Friday in New York, Friday, Nov. 25, 2016. Shoppers were on the hunt for deals and

Emily Spivack, Brooklyn artist, writer, editor and the author of Worn in New York: 68 Sartorial Memoirs of the City (Harry N. Abrams, 2017), returns with stories people shared with her about significant only-in-New York moments in their lives and the clothes they were wearing. Mirah Zeitlyn, Brooklyn-based musician and songwriter, tells her sartorial encounter with a German Shepard while training for the New York City Marathon.