“Who are you trying to impress?” is the first little cover story. It lets everyone laugh without admitting the outfit worked.

Then the room betrays them. A man at the bar looks over once, then again, the second time too quick to pretend he was checking the door. The friend who teased the mirror selfie wants to know where the top came from. The coworker who used to call her “sweet” holds the door and loses the end of his sentence.

After that, the jokes get careful. Nobody wants to be the last one pretending nothing changed.