Nantucket red, for example, has the look of a red shirt that has been washed countless times and is faded to a light peachy pink from years of sun exposure, he says.

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He was wearing a long-sleeved T-shirt and black pants, freshly washed and ironed, and he was struggling to keep everyone on schedule.

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Andy, who was forty-three, was wearing a washed-out T-shirt and a pair of Crocs with a South Korean flag on them, which went nicely with the middle-aged grunginess of his shaved scalp.

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