TODAY, we start trying to keep an earlier promise by postiing selected articles from past issues of the print MISC. With any hope, it’ll wet your whistle enough to want to subscribe.

In today’s batch, we start with Matt Briggs’s The Age of Uniforms, a memoir of one woman’s work life as seen via clothes.

Then, Matthew Stadler offers a Letter From Astoria, chronicling one of America’s strangest and saddest towns.

We’re also making it easier to find past weblog items from 2002 by listing some of the better (or at least longer) ones by name on an index page.