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A while ago, Dawn wrote about the trousers her friend wears for build­ing and plumb­ing jobs. I recently inter­viewed a car­penter, who took a novel approach to res­cuing his cloth­ing from the dam­ages of his work: good, thick tape.

“The work trousers always go at the zip”, he says.

At least the trousers can be taped. The thumb caught in machinery isn’t so read­ily fixable.