The Senate race between Jon Ossoff and Mike Collins gives us good material to illustrate two common problems with men's trousers, which most people miss when shopping. Let me show you. 🧵

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In the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam, where the Dutch are not really pushing back on their reputation for being somewhat abrupt.

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Kantha is a similar technique, but using a running stitch and larger scraps of material. Chindi is the leftover of the leftover. By making cloth in this way, the resources used to grow cotton, spin yarn, and weave fabric are not wasted. Left is kantha; right is chindi.

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Photo from the night Mamdani launched his campaign. He appears to be wearing a jacket made from chindi, which is an Indian fabric made by upcycling leftover materials. Here, small scraps of material from previous projects are backed by cotton muslin and sewn together using an embroidery stitch.

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OK. We've had quite enough of all of this now. Let's have the election results. I'm done waiting.

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