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By: Joshua Glenn
December 5, 2015

Call this Personal Care category code: ESSENTIAL GEAR.

Definition: Personal Care product as a piece of essential gear, for the adventure of daily life.

Notes on this code: Language stressing convenience, lack of mess (where mess is both literal, and a metaphor for hassles, hang-ups). Visual convention borrowed from “What’s In My Bag?” social media meme.

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Josh Glenn, HILOBROW's editor, is a principal of the commercial semiotics agency Semiovox. He is co-author and/or co-editor of several books, including The Idler's Glossary, Significant Objects, and the bestselling family activities guide UNBORED. In the ’00s, Josh was a columnist and blogger for the Boston Globe's IDEAS section; in the ’90s, he published the zine/journal Hermenaut. He lives in Boston.

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