Photos by Jenny Jimenez

Edited by Dan Savage and Kelly O

Most writers are slobs, and the editorial staff at The Stranger is no exception. We are not the fashion police. We’re not here to tell you which designers are hot. We are not interested in helping to promulgate Madison Avenue’s endless stream of maddeningly arbitrary fashion decrees. (“Pencil skirts for women! Pink socks for men! Did we say socks? We meant jocks! Pink jocks!”)

So what are we interested in? You. And what you’re wearing right now. Because even if we can’t dress ourselves, we can spot people who look good. And we can take pictures. We took tons of pictures over a couple of blustery days this spring. We found good-looking, well-dressed people in downtown, Belltown, and Georgetown, on Capitol Hill, First Hill, and Beacon Hill. Everywhere we went we found people working killer looks.

Welcome to WORN OUT, The Stranger‘s annual look at what well-dressed people in Seattle are actually wearing. As you’ll see in these pages, Seattle’s well-dressed people aren’t all wearing the same thing. If just one style is in this year, Seattle didn’t get—or, more likely, decided to ignore—that memo. The looks on these pages are as unique as the people wearing them.

Annie Wagner is The Stranger's former film editor. She was born and raised in Capitol Hill, but has since lived in such far-flung locales as Phoenix, AZ, Charlottesville, VA, and Wedgwood. After graduating...

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...

Megan Seling is The Stranger's managing editor. She mostly writes about hockey, snacks, and music. And sometimes her dog, Johnny Waffles.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...

Former Stranger news writer Cienna Madrid has been a writer in residence for Richard Hugo House, a local literary nonprofit. There, she taught fiction classes and wrote 4/5 of a book about a death-row...

Christopher Frizzelle was The Stranger's print editor, and first joined the staff in 2003. He was the editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2016, and edited the story by Eli Sanders that won a 2012 Pulitzer...

David Schmader—former weed columnist and Stranger associate editor—is the author of the solo plays Straight and Letter to Axl, which he’s performed in Seattle and across the US. His latest...

Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua....