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I'm Gail Straub and you're listening to She Explorers.

The first time I saw Patagonia in person, she looked at the reel in a 100% recycled white dress that showed off her legs and shoulders.

It was late January 2019, and she strode through outdoor retailer, the biannual industry trade show

in heels that add another six inches to her over six foot frame.

Patty can come across as larger than life in her namesake social media platform.

In person, starting through the halls of an industry that is often stuck in its ways,

Patty was indeed real, showing up in the flash as if to say,

changes here, it's been here, don't look away. Patty is a drag queen who embraces that change as well as creativity and working together to

further community in the outdoors. Out of drag, Patty's creator is Wynne Wiley,

a cis white man who uses he him his pronouns but as Winn explains it's not all

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