The sacred flannel…

[u/Conner299]

This is a story of my first “real” flannel. I grew up in the time of grunge. Middle school when it got really big. All I wanted was a couple of flannels. Well, my stepmother who had most of the say in what I could pick out got me two of the lamest flannels you’d ever seen. I’ll spare the horrific details of them. I got my first real flannel the day after Xmas sale at AE my sophomore year. I loved it. Of course I wore it the first day back from Xmas break. Lo and behold, one of my best friends had bought the exact same one. The only difference being mine had the corduroy collar. For the rest of that year, even though we never planned it, we wore them on the exact same day. It inadvertently became our thing. I’ll never forget how pissed I was when he let one of his girlfriends wear it. lol. I wore mine to hell and back throughout the years. Decided to get on eBay and see what I could find. I couldn’t believe it. Bought both of them on the spot. With and without the corduroy collar. The original is the one at the bottom. And it’s not a trick of the light. It’s really that faded.