Mother Jones
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Last week, Friday Night Lights creator and journalist Buzz Bissinger set the internet on fire with a candid, 6,000-word confessional about his out-of-control addiction to high-end shopping published in GQ.
Bissinger’s obsession—forty-one pairs of leather pants? A $22,000 jacket?—is so outlandish that it almost seems like a rouse. Yet there are many more weird stories woven into what we wear, why we wear it, and what happens to it when we clean out the closet.
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