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Anon has a male friend who insists his ex had "too many shoes", upon further questioning it was revealed that she had about 20 pairs of shoes which anon believes is below the average number of shoes for most women.
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my drawings series about Yoga is now a T-shirt collection thanks to Hop edition:) find them www.stay-hop.com/collections/virginia-mori :)
This was one of the very first leather bracelets I made, way back in 2013, and it finally broke! This is exciting for me, because I get to talk about how my products hold up over time!
This bracelet saw regular wear, though not daily, for almost 4 years. This was the prototype of this bracelet design. After I laid out and laser-cut this one, I looked at it hard and decided that it looked too fragile, with the bridges of leather between the cuts for the scales being too small. Basically, I was worried that it would break too easily. So for the design to sell I reduced it to 3 columns of scales, and increased the size of the gaps a little bit. But I wore this one myself to see how it would last.
And boy was I surprised! 4 years! Wow. And I was not careful with it. It finally gave in to a pretty darn forceful tug while pulling my hand free of some tight fabric.
You can also see here how the leather ages over time. Grime and sweat from your hands will soak into it, which darkens the underside. You can see how the area near the snap, where the leather overlaps and doesn’t touch the skin, is a lot lighter. And oils and other stuff it comes in contact with will slowly affect the outer surface, giving it a bit of variation and patina. And after years of wear, the leather is now quite flexible, floppy even.
You can also see where the plating wore off of the snap. Basically all snaps I’ve found are nickel-plated brass, and eventually the plating wears off on the exposed surfaces. When the brass is exposed it does oxidize, and if it’s a hot sweaty day it can rub a bit of green copper oxide onto your wrist. It washes off easily, so no harm done. You can also see how it picked up more dirt on the bottom of the wrist/ends of the bracelet than on the center/top section. I’m not sure why that is, but it’s kind of interesting.
Anyway, I like being able to share how things wear over time. It’s not as sexy as fresh clean new merchandise, but I think it’s important.
And it kind of highlights societal weirdnesses around prices of Things that this piece of jewelry I sell for the price of a meal at a restaurant will hold up for so long.
I cant wait to see him in august 😩
ABSOLUTELY SLAYED IN THESE PICS OH MY GOODNESS😩
