As a figure skater I have gone through many a pair of tights, but as a synchronized figure skater, the pairs of tights I have gone through are no match to the collective pairs of my team. Each pair of tights is borrowed from a different member of the team and would have otherwise been rendered useless. Tights are the closest layer to the body in performance, therefore they face the most repercussions. Each hole created in the tights represents an action that had to produce it, while mending that hole represents for me a type of external scarring, as a scar would close wounds on the body yet leave a specific mark, darning a garment does the same. Both provide evidence of an incident, extended wear, or a particular repeated movement. While mending can revive the tights, they can never be competition ready again, however, the infliction of the slow mending process produces artifacts of what were to previously be retired.