I’m working on an essay about the fetishization of labor and work clothes as chic, but it isn’t new (to wit: distressed denim was the butt of endless jokes circa 1991) and there is something I like about fetishizing doing. Doing is good. Making is good. People should do and make.

I’m working on an essay about the fetishization of labor and work clothes as chic, but it isn’t new (to wit: distressed denim was the butt of endless jokes circa 1991) and there is something I like about fetishizing doing. Doing is good. Making is good. People should do and make.