6 Gems: How to respond to passive aggressive outfit digs

By subscriber request (-ish; I said I'd do it + she sounded excited)

“Aren’t you hot in that?”

“Will you be ok to walk in those shoes?”

“Wow, you got all dressed up!”

“Did you know your bra is showing?”

“Are you going somewhere after this?”

We’ve all heard them. And told ourselves they were well intentioned. Maybe on some level or some of the time they are. But a lot of the time … that person’s just being a little shit! Probably for one of the usual reasons people are little shits. Insecurity. Stress. Repression. Some combination thereof.

Instead of reddening and shriveling, here are 6 comebacks. On all different spots of the scale from “when they go low, we go high” to, well, not so high. Pick your poison.