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owen's avatar

Purged that very same pearl jam shirt in a moment of mental weakness! Really drove the point home.

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Blackbird Spyplane's avatar

no way !!!!! oof

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nicholas dipastena's avatar

I can’t believe you sequenced the Spyplane merch sale with a reference to (C.H.A.O.S.) Mindset.

A subtle test I was happy to loose. Can’t wait for my Spy Ranch hat!

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Blackbird Spyplane's avatar

Haha please enjoy it like it was full price

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Andrew's avatar

Thank you for introducing me to Gebru—wonderful, beautiful music. I am seriously enjoying her kompositionens.

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Blackbird Spyplane's avatar

ah man so happy to spread the word

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Andrew's avatar

FYI, for anyone else who cannot get enough of this amazing music, Mississippi Records just re-released another LP of her work: https://emahoytsegemariamgebru.bandcamp.com/album/emahoy-tsege-mariam-gebru

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George Cook's avatar

Hey, I hate to ask but what planner is that in the photo? Loving the giant helvetica numbers!

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Blackbird Spyplane's avatar

it's a great planner, and please do not hate to ask -- Cla$$ified subscribers get cla$$ified IDs baby!! Linked here -- https://www.blackbirdspyplane.com/p/classified-spytalk-bbsps-new-chat/comments?

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Growing_Stains's avatar

Budgeting has always been a fundamental aspect of my shopping experience. When I was a (low-income) culture/fashion focused kid, I used to keep detailed, trend based, cop-lists as a way of collecting without spending. As an extremely fortunate and grateful adult with a more flexible jawn allowance, I still like to window shop and form cop-lists, but now they’re categorical (typically material, cut, or theme based). Making these lists helps to keep my spending grounded/focused and my wardrobe cohesive. In areas that I struggle, like accessories, I still keep item specific grail lists.

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Blackbird Spyplane's avatar

I think there's some serious wisdom to this! I always want to steer away from my relatively more shoot-from-the-hip approach... this requires extra effort on my part, though, because I do not possess "spreadsheet" brain...

To the point of using a cop list when you were younger as a way to "collect" without spending, there's definite wisdom there, too -- it's helpful to learn when you can just appreciate something's image, and when actually owning it might not give you significantly more pleasure than that image! (I think about this a lot w/r/t to graphic tees, but I think it can be extrapolated...)

When *I* was a young low-income culture/fashion focused kid and, like, Polo Sport and DKNY tees were super popping, I would re-draw the logos with Sharpies on t-shirts and rock those as a kind of "winking high school critique" ... I got to have my logo and make fun of it too ... and speaking of Jawn Libraries god damn I wish I still had some of those Sharpie tees !!

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Growing_Stains's avatar

Thanks for the kind words! I wish I had had that kind of level of self-assurance as a HS kid to make my own bootlegs! Hopefully some kid picked one of your creations up from a thrift store and rocks it now.

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Jordan Alexander's avatar

Hey man, may I ask where the pants in the top photo are from?

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Blackbird Spyplane's avatar

Ayyy yessir these are Evan Kinori’s elastic waist pants in linen

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Robyn Weisman's avatar

I’ve done the impulse purge so many times and have so many regrets as a result. Don’t do what I’ve done--keep a library!

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Growing_Stains's avatar

Uhg, same. Sometimes on a quiet afternoon an image of a discarded garment will pop into my head. 😫Should have pumped the brakes on a few of those gems! Libraries are the way to ☮️ for sure.

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Blackbird Spyplane's avatar

🙏🏻The temptation to purge is strong but must be interrogated and resisted !!! There is rarely an “undo” button !!!

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Robyn Weisman's avatar

Partly because we get told nonsense like, “If you haven’t worn it for a year, you should remove it from your closet.” And then there are also issues like small closets, divorce and other things that make you irrational lol

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Blackbird Spyplane's avatar

Haha yes on all counts

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