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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’

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Why Japanese love America’s castoff workwear and why some Americans feel the same way about Japanese wear.Why Japanese love America’s castoff workwear and why some Americans feel the same way about Japanese wear.