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Jefferson Berlin's avatar

I have enjoyed every podcast you’ve done since you were with 99% Invisible. Thank you for all of them. I have to quibble with you though about the timeline/merits of LaCoste’s “alligator” shirts vs Ralph Lauren’s Polo. We were wearing alligator shirts by the late 1960s. It was THE uniform shirt for teenage boys and undergrads at schools all over the northeast, in a myriad of colors. It was light years better than Lauren’s polo shirts. Better fabric, better, more athletic fit, and defined by its longer tail, which as much as the alligator on the breast, was the feature that showed you were wearing the “right” shirt. I think there was a 4-5 year period when I rarely wore anything else, and had alligator shirts in 15-20 different colors.

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Kalpana Mohan's avatar

I’ve been enjoying your podcast so much over the last year. Thank you for all you do. I’ve found it useful as I go about building my own book on the sari. I wanted to suggest the name of a Japanese translator. I wrote a post a few months ago on a terrific Japanese book called Masks by Fumiko Enchi. More at https://open.substack.com/pub/kalpanamohan/p/the-masks-we-wear?utm_source=direct&r=4uv5u&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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