Personally I like items that are specific for their purpose
and find interest in how they are well made.
It is also fun how when you get that special feeling from
owning it and to be able to use it.
Tools are especially so and how they are made for one purpose only from the start; I find it “gracious” how their only role is to serve that
and that in itself is plenty cool.
Every season I struggle to find how I can incorporate
this “graciousness” into making clothing.
In clothing when you end up making the likes of “purpose specific”
the egoism seems too strong
but at the same time
if you focus too much on “multi purpose”
they kind of end up like cheap useful goods.
I think about many things how in creating clothing
this becomes wasted.
But
feeling how I want to make stoic items with a specific purpose
I end up making them intolerantly.
Since my specialty in clothing is creating “daily town wear”
I put into it my knowledge fully that I have
although it does not quite go as far as something for pro use only.
Among all of this, one of my favorites is
the square nylon made poncho called the A-Frame
which is like sheets with a hole cut in the middle
where you stick your head through and throw on to cover yourself.
The recent models have plastic snap buttons on both sides
to hold it down
but previous models were not plastic
and used a combination of metal snap buttons and eyelets.
Using the holes in the eyelets it became a sleeping bag by
fixing a military surplus quilt mat to it and a simple shelter
can be made also with a pole and some parachute chord.
Minor changes were made because
for town wear use, the above use was unnecessary;
the eyelets were removed so it could be used as a picnic mat,
the cold metal snap buttons were changed to
small plastic snap buttons,
and if you really needed to, you could add your own eyelets.
I think perfection is impossible even for an items made with pursuit.
I believe items that remain will be a design
that has somewhat of a margin for time and purpose.
To not over do and not under do
may be the “graciousness” I wrote about earlier.
For reference’s sake, when I made a shelter out of it
the shape ended up being just like the letter
A of the alphabet
so the name A-Frame derived from this.
This is just an aside
when I used to ride around a Jeep Wrangler with the top off
when it rained, I used a poncho instead of a bikini top.
