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The designer works with customers to find styles, colorways, or patchwork combinations that fit their personal style. “I’ve always loved patchwork,” she says of her signature fabrication. Since James uses scraps of old sportswear T-shirts, and mixes in textures from other vintage pieces she finds, the result is a one-of-one creation. James has built up relationships with wholesale suppliers, so that she can spend less time scouring for vintage pieces and more time on the design process. Wholesalers such as Wholesale Vintage Fashion will send her boxes of unsold sports merch before donating them to places such as Goodwill. Some of the pieces she uses are decades old. “Some of the tees are from the ‘90s or early 2000s,” she says. “I can tell from the tags.” The couple is just as fastidious when it comes to their retro beauty and grooming regimes. McNeilly does his hair in true Danny Zuko style, with real grease. “I use dish soap to wash the grease out of my hair,” he says. “It’s probably the 15 Prison Break Thank You For The Memories The Signature Shirt thing you can do to your hair. It sits so much better, though.” Chiswell sets her hair in pin curls every night. “I looked up a lot of Youtube tutorials, and I found these old 1950s hair books that had different setting patterns,” she says. It’s cut specifically in a horseshoe shape, by a hairstylist who worked with her to find the perfect vintage hairdo. She usually gets her hair touched up every two weeks, but has been doing an at-home dyeing process since the pandemic began. “The first time was awful, as expected, but I think I’m starting to get used to it now,” she says.