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Halfway into the first week of the Vancouver Winter Olympics, some athletes have already taken issue with the judging. But at these games, there is no discordant French judge at the center of the controversy. Instead, it’s the style police stirring things up. Figure skater Johnny Weir has provoked two fashion-related confrontations. The first was […]

This is a patched work coat, or noragi, that likely never began as a full garment, but was rather made from multiple, very small patches — some of them the size of a postage stamp — that were all sewn together to create an area of cloth, and then layered.

Some Japanese will pay $4,500 for an old Missouri prisoner uniform. Me, I collect Japanese ‘boro’