We Needed This: TaraShakti Revives Vintage Ski Suits

When Tara Clark’s friend, Holly, had a brain tumor removed months after a terminal brain cancer diagnosis, she couldn’t wait to get back to their yearly group Whistler trip. Clark silently worried that even a local hill would be too much. But “the next season, she was still alive,” Clark says. “And she said, ‘Everyone show up in a one piece.’”

For Clark, that mandate turned into an eBay obsession: At one point, she amassed a collection of 100 vintage ski suits down in her basement, a parade of gold and silver and hot pink polyester worn by her girlfriends and young sons alike. “I would get asked all

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