Ever been to a Banana Republic or Gap store in the ‘90s? Ever hunt the thrift shops for Banana Republic or Gap clothes from the ‘90s?

If so, there’s an excellent chance you have something sitting in your closet now that Andy had a hand in designing.

In this installment of Tell Me a Story, Andy shares two similar experiences where the work he was doing at that time would later turn around and find him again. Once while on a first date at a Manhattan restaurant where he thought he might get shivved for shouting “hey, man! That’s my shirt!” to a man passing by. And then 30 years later when his teenager daughter came home from the thrift store and mentioned, “I think I got a shirt from that place you worked in your 20s.”

There’s a legacy you leave when you make things for other people, because often those things come back around to you in fun and unexpected ways.

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