Well, for better or worse, a great many pieces in my personal vintage/antique clothing collection are like this. I once had a seller at an antiques show try to talk me out of buying a 1940’s apron that had been carefully repaired with a dissimilar patch. He showed me like-new vintage aprons, but none of them touched my soul like the message of this seemingly insignificant garment that the former owner repaired, rather than buy a new apron... Should these clothes be saved? I hope this link will lead you to the article even if you don’t subscribe, which I do, so I can’t test it.
Hooray -- the NYT just took down their limits on online access, so I'll now be able to read it. Thank you, Lynne.
If you have a subscription and don't mind stealing the occasional article, you can take screenshots to share privately, such as here. I have a subscription (or DH does, I think. WAPO, too). it's similar, if done only occasionally and not in a haphazard manner, to claiming/grabbing an abandoned WSJ or NYT left behind by some business man who's finished with it, when you arrive at Penn Station.
