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I'm a simple emigrant and I have my own simple style

9/24/2025, 5:19:14 PM

As I've already told you, in Germany unnecessary things are often resold for pennies or given away for charity. The idea is great, but sometimes you walk down the street and notice that local homeless people strut around in Nikes, fashionable clothes, and with Louis Vuitton bags. It’s hard to tell at a glance: is it a bum, an influencer, or a Balenciaga creative? And I also remember how funny it was that on Avito people were selling bags from Moscow’s TSUM, and it gets even funnier. So I have a T-shirt. A nice T-shirt, but nothing remarkable. I don’t particularly like how it fits me in photos, but it’s very comfortable. So every time I put it on, I think, well, it’s not my best outfit, but it’s comfortable. Not long ago I was standing on the street, I saw a woman rummaging in a trash can. An ordinary situation, but something didn’t add up in my head. And then it hit me that she was wearing that very T-shirt! It’s a good thing I was dressed in something else. Otherwise it would have been very funny. You know those situations where fashionistas argue because they came to a party in identical outfits? And me, why bother with trifles, I go higher, show my protest to society, so to speak 😅 Anyway, I comforted myself with the thought that it sits on me better, though the sting lingered. But my friend was simply happy, because he always hated this T-shirt and now he had a reason to add fuel to the fire, saying, “well, now you’ll stop wearing it?!”. And I have a dilemma: ditch it and keep the T-shirt or send it on a journey of secondary use, maybe it’ll land with the same woman. I wouldn’t want to accidentally blend in with the homeless on some street-style shoot. 😁 Would you wear it? #curiosities Photo from an exhibition about consumer society