For a unique fashion statement, store your clothes in your window
Once upon a time I was young, cool and lived in NYC. Clinton was president, Giuliani was mayor, the music was good and the millennium hype had not hit us yet. The grass was greener back then, I swear.
My friends lived on 6th street and Ave. B, by the lot with the 'art structure' (iykyk). We used to hang on the roof and fire escape and make up stories about life around us.
Across the street lived a very stylish girl. We knew because her closet was her curtains, the rod was physically in the window, with the sun shining all year long onto her clothes, including this wild orange faux-fur.
Which over the span of 3 years got gradually more faded. On one arm and shoulder, with a narrow hanger-shaped stripe at the top of the other shoulder. This fading happened to all of her good clothes. Skirts with one faded stripe running down the side, and jackets and dresses with a faded arm...
I once saw her out, a latina Natasha Lyonne type, wearing a blue dress with that sun-faded pattern on one arm and both shoulders. I remember how I liked that instead of protecting her clothes from the sun, she just made faded shoulders gradually her new look.
Different strokes for different folks. I'm the conformist type who builds a closet and enjoys the window in my even-colored clothes, but our gal made lack of space into a fashion statement.
In hindsight I find it both hilarious and deeply regretful that I never got to see her wearing that orange faux fur with the faded arm+shoulder.