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Saw a guy at a truck stop in Flagstaff wearing a jacket he'd patched with old seatbelt webbing.
Looked rough a year back, but he kept adding to it and now it's a full design. Anyone else seen workwear turn into something more like art?
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loganl225mo ago
My old jeans tell the same kind of story.
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elizabethg185mo ago
That's the best kind of project, when it just evolves on its own from fixing stuff. It stops being just a jacket and becomes a record of where it's been. Real art comes from use, not from a blank canvas.
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cameronschmidt5mo ago
My 15 year old Carhartt is more patches than original coat at this point. @elizabethg18 is right, the story is in the repairs. A brand new jacket is just a thing, but a worn one has a map of every rip and stain that shows what you were doing. That's what makes stuff actually yours. The perfect look comes from not trying to be perfect.
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