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Name:

Addie Stiles

What would you name these jeans?

safe pants

How did you come to own these jeans?

Found on a tucked-away rack for $5 in a sprawling Portland thrift store during my freshman year of high school. Bought them because I was desperate to wash away the sins of my middle school wardrobe, and they had good pockets.

How do these jeans make you feel?

These jeans are my 'safe pants'. As many times as I've tried to retire them or they've fallen apart between my fingers, they still manage to make it into every closet and join me on every vacation. There was a time when I was so afraid of losing them that I would smash them into the bottom of my carry-on when flying to guarantee their safe arrival. I don't even feel that they look good on me anymore, the legs have somehow become different lengths and the color is fading away, but man nothing can make a bad situation better than throwing on a pair of safe pants.