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I will say I had three older brothers, like quite a bit older than me.

So like they were always like they worked at the gap or they worked at the mall.

And so like polos were a big deal like in their wardrobe.

So I always remember like trying to like sneak one of their polos like and like put it on, you know, me and then like go to junior high whatever when they weren't looking um so

that but i will say that my first memory this was like before like Pinterest instagram all those things

right when we were growing up and i worked one of my first jobs um when i was 15 or 16 i worked for a guy in

our neighborhood and he bought and sold used Levi's and like from

Japan and all those things. And so and like there was always and it was like kind of in the skittal part of the

of Provo and I would walk there after school. I'd park myself and I'd work there every day. And I got really

good at like you can identify vintage Levi's by like you turn the inseam and if there's a red stripe happening on that's when

you know it's like a certain year that like that those are creative and that's what you were always

looking for as you bought and sold them right and so I just remember like we always have like

magazines like Vogue and I love magazines so I just like collect them and I remember seeing like ads and things.

And even if I couldn't afford to buy polo,

I remember being inspired by the look of like the denim on denim.

And like, you know, I was in the world of denim.

And so like that was probably, I think I probably got like a shambray shirt.

Yeah. It was probably like my it like a shambray shirt. Yeah.

It was probably like my first like actual like Ralph Lauren purchase and I probably

paired it with Levi's and just that whole layering again, color drenching like back in

the day.

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