One Vogue writer asks: In questions of love, is a deal-breaker ever really a deal-breaker?
My husband wears a headband almost all of the time. He’ll wear one in the airport or to brunch in the West Village. He sometimes wears one to bed. It’s a simple sweatband, cotton and stretchy. Think Richie Tenenbaum, or Paulie Bleeker, but solid black. It’s always black. He buys them by the dozen and keeps them folded neatly in the top drawer of his dresser.
We started out as friends. It was the kind of beautiful, uncomplicated friendship between a man and a woman for whom it seems impossible to become anything more. One reason it seemed impossible was that I had almost married one of his best friends. Another was, of course, the headband. It was just the type of shallow deal-breaker one feels compelled to hold onto in their 20s. For a girl far too concerned about the appearance of things, the headband was a nonstarter.
Still, if anyone had told me that watching a man try on white jeans at a Kmart would be the thing to finally win me over, I would have been skeptical. But that was how it happened. It was the Fourth of July and Bert’s band had a gig at the Mercury Lounge. They had decided to dress in red, white, and blue. Bert needed to get his outfit and I tagged along. The attraction was palpable at this point: eyes catching across the table palpable; legs grazing in the taxi palpable.
A few years down the line, he wore one as he carried boxes up the stairs to the apartment we would share as husband and wife. It struck me as a highly practical choice. He, mercifully, did not wear one the week after that, when we said our vows on an unseasonably warm September day. He wore one throughout our honeymoon and I hardly even noticed.
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