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Chapter 1

2000s

Close enough to touch, far enough to miss.

2000 — 2009

Close enough to touch, far enough to miss. That is the trouble with this chapter — it does not feel like history yet, and it is.

Things started arriving faster than they wore out, and for a while I mistook that for abundance. It took most of the decade to work out what it actually was.

Static · Vintage Hoodie · M$273
Condition & details +

Very good. A little pilling under the arms, otherwise sound.

  • Heavyweight loopback fleece
  • Ribbed cuffs and hem, both sound
  • Measurements on request
  • Cold wash, dry flat

So I went the other way. Fewer things, older things, and a rule that nothing came home with me unless I could imagine still reaching for it in ten years.

It does not feel like history yet, and it is.

Most of what I own from this decade I bought secondhand at the time, which means it was already carrying somebody else before it started carrying me.

It is the nearest chapter and the hardest one to write, because I have not finished having the feelings about it yet.

Give it another ten years. Then it will read like the rest of them.

What the 2000s bring back

These are not copies of the piece above. A decade leaves things behind in a person, and some of them are shapes. These came out of that.

  • Dial Tone · Hoodie$173
    Size

  • Everything At Once · T-shirt$73
    Size

At the heart of the brand is the heart of a man.

Aletross

Vintage finds and Aletross designs, each set into the chapter it belongs to. There is only ever one of each, and only one story per design.

Letters from the workshop

Occasional notes on new pieces and what is on the bench.

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