Treasures Held Up to the Light

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It’s that time of year again; time to wash The Jacket. Which should have illuminated capital letters.

The Jacket is a plain jean jacket…adorned with somewhere around a hundred pins and buttons. In normal years I wear it at winter SF cons (it’s a bit too warm in the summer). Fully equipped, it weighs in at about eight pounds. I have had people joke about it stopping a bullet. Washing it involves taking off all…