Some areas got hit with “managed obsolescence.” Basically, they were being abandoned, officially, with the idea that, without whatever basic services were left, the people there would just have to leave.

Basic, brown outerwear became really popular for people who had to travel through one of those cities. If you wore something too flashy, you ran the risk of getting mistaken for a member of some new gang, and the people living it up in the ruins aren’t the talk it out type.

If a size is not listed, it is sold out.