Avery Truffleman

So when that historian basically said it for me, in other words, I was like,

Hell yeah.

Good job.

That was a nice transition.

And so it was like my own internal delight, but also to call attention to it made it so that I didn't have to do it.

You know, it's like we're going back in history now.

Fashion is the externalization of your... It is both the externalization of your internal state and the individualization of the collective state.

It is expressing what we're all going through and what you're going through in your time at the same time.

It is like the most obvious barometer of...

of time made visible.

It's sort of nuts.

Like my favorite example that I love to give is there's this great game online where you can click on it and it will show you different pictures from the past.

And you have to guess when the photograph was taken.

And it's actually really, I find, it's quite hard to do.

But you realize that the things you're looking at are the clothes.

Like the buildings last a long time.

Sometimes the cars can tell you what era you're in.

But even there, it's like a little wishy-washy.

You're really, that's how you can tell what era someone is in.

It is the literal boundary between you and the world.