take five: ruffeo hearts lil snotty
I love these sweatshirts. I think they’re definitely worth the slightly higher price point, because each is made by hand and selected from throngs of thrift store sweatshirts. I want one and maybe one of their dresses too. So I asked the two geniuses behind this etsy shop to take five minutes and this is what they told me.
1) Tell us a little bit about yourself. How old are you and where are you from?
Ruffeo (aka Mackswell Sherman): I am 25 or 26 I cant remember, I am from Oblivion, I didn’t exist until I was almost 3 years old. I was born on the outside. I became a reality when my parents dropped back into society in 83, we lived in Seattle then, But Im more from the San Jan Islands. I lived there from age 7 to 18, then I moved to Olympia to go to The Evergreen State College, where Lil’ Snotty and I met. We had to move to Seattle because Olympia is a poverty loving, Olympia beer guzzeling Swamp Of Sadness. We’ve been in Seattle for 2.5 years.
Lil Snotty (aka Sarah Jones): I am 22 years old and born in Houston, Texas. I lived there until I was 16 and eventually ended up in Seattle.
2) How do you choose the materials you use?
LS: We use exclusively salvaged materials. Fabric that comes from the thrift stores or excess of the garment industry. When looking for materials I go for anything brightly colored, bold and stretchy.
R: If it hasn’t been bled on Im into it.
3) How did Ruffeo hearts Lil’ Snotty come about?
R:We were working for the Thomson Gunners fighting the Congalese, Roland’s head got shot strait off and then we were like “Woah this is not cool at all” or at least something along those lines, Somewhere inside of Warren Zevon’s horrific fantasies I was impregnated with the passion to contribute momentum to the handmade allegiance. To sidestep blundering politics and foreign affairs by taking the power of commerce as votes against the established world of slave laborers and environmentally mental garment manufacturing industry. To face fuck the fashion industry.
LS: We meet in Olympia spray painting t-shirts together. Once that became too toxic and messy we turned to sewing garments together. We joined the Olympia Clothing Project and never looked back.
4) Tell us your favorite undiscovered site or designer.
LS: www.foundationgarmentsinc.com
R. www.paperdollfashion.etsy.com
5) If there were only one dessert in your life for the rest of your life, what would it be and why?
R. Fruit salad with Lime squeezed on top. I don’t like sweet things unless Im getting super psychadelic.
LS: super dark chocolate
Go look at Ruffeo hearts Lil’ Snotty.
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