TIL thrift store blazers in Seattle taught me more about fit than 4 years of design school ever did

I was digging through a Value Village in Ballard last Saturday and tried on this random 80s corduroy blazer. The shoulders were totally wrong but the waist hit perfectly, and it made me realize how much modern fast fashion messes up proportion. I spent like 3 hours there comparing seams and shoulder slopes on different vintage stuff. Now I'm sketching blazers with a slightly higher armhole based on what I saw. Has anyone else learned more from thrifting than from actual textbooks?

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murray.spencer1mo ago

Doesn't it feel like we’re all just rediscovering what used to be common knowledge, just buried under a pile of cheap fabric and bad patterns?

alexw751mo ago

My granddad had three shirts total and they all looked the same, but somehow his wardrobe had more personality than an entire H&M clearance rack.