5. Blue Jeans

For the most part, we tend to keep our clothes relatively clean and avoid spills and rips and tears. But denim is so hard-wearing and hard-working that it just kind of amasses more and more signs of wear. So you can learn a lot from observing an old pair of blue jeans.

Articles of Interest (99percentinvisible.org/aoi)99percentinvisible.org/aoi/is a show about what we wear, created by Avery Trufelman; a six-part series within* 99% Invisible*, looking at clothing.

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