Keep those beautiful old coats and clothes -- Bill Cunningham from New York Times --

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/01/04/fashion/20090104-street-feature/index.html?th&emc=th

Only problem -- closet space.

I still have old coat from 20 years ago and it works fine --

one quilted coat I gave away and one (picked from garbage!) -- a good black wool long coat worth about $100, that was too small for me -- I gave both of these to refugees/visitors/interns from Burma.

All a problem of knowing what to throw away and what to keep.

I will never throw away re-cycled wearable art that I make myself from heirloom clothes and linen.

Kyi May Kaung