As a New Yorker with an outerwear obsession, I have no fewer than a dozen coats in my closet — but the ones I reach for the ...

One of the latest and surprising findings in the field of physical therapy is that slouching is not as bad as we think it is. Certain researchers have gone so far as to say that the conventional fear ...

The unusual and unexpected evolution of the perceived crisis of poor posture in contemporary America—spanning from eugenics and posture contests to present-day advocates of "paleo posture." There’s ...

Strangers try to fix my posture. According to them, my shoulders slump, and my neck protrudes on a diagonal, as though I’m constantly reading a book or peering down at a phone screen. My critics come ...

In 1995 Ron Rosenbaum wrote a New York Times Magazine article about a batch of nude photographs he discovered in the Smithsonian Institution archives. The collection of images, numbering in the ...

At the bottom right of my computer screen, just out of my direct line of vision, lurks an animated scold: a cartoon giraffe named Rafi. He is the playful icon of an app called Posture Pal, which works ...

I'm over the moon with the Slouch Task One, and it's undeniably one of the best office chairs I've used. Not only can you select its exact design, but it's a fully adjustable chair that can be ...

Whether you’re wearing a hat for warmth or just putting the cherry on top to a cute outfit, the best slouchy beanies will give you a relaxed, casual look. They're made from materials like acrylic, ...

I was a Dr. Spock baby. My mother kept “The Pocket Book of Baby and Child Care” in the end table next to the couch in the living room, where I found it once when I was looking through drawers for ...

MY FRIEND has been my daily companion as well as my trusted servant for decades now. But he hasn’t been himself lately. I wonder if he’s sick. Once shiny and springing with life, he’s now old, sagging ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At my very old-fashioned, now very defunct, English girls’ school (motto: “pure and upright”), the most coveted ...