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Chiikawa Sociologyby Shinogi

Making things

How does the pochette Armor-san turn what they love into work?

Making cute things yourself and selling them. From the pochette Armor-san, I think about how loving something connects with work.

Mentions the pochette Armor-san's crafting.

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Behind a cute item, there's a maker

The pochette Armor-san loves cute things and sells pochettes and pajamas they made themself.

So the pochettes are items the maker itself finds cute. If we only look at the price of what's on sale, we might overlook tastes like that.

There's a gap between loving something and it selling

That said, loving something doesn't mean it will sell. With real handmade goods, there's also the work of gathering materials and remaking things. Where does the Armor-san get their materials, and how do they set their prices?

Enjoying making things, and being able to keep selling them. Between those two, there seems to be work we can't see yet. Rather than wrapping it up as “happy because your work is what you love,” I want to know everything that happens before the items are on display.

Tracing work backward from shopping

In shopping, there are people who pay and people who make and sell the goods. Seeing the pochette Armor-san makes me want to think about work not only from the buyer's side but from the maker's side too.

A pochette is a cute little accessory. And it's also something someone made. When we follow the maker's effort and tastes too, the work in this world looks a little broader.

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