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Indeed, many former jeans-and-T-shirt dressers such as Vazquez have emerged from quarantine bold and bright as the monarch on a cropped tank top from 1997. Others, like 18-year-old Jesus Gomez of Long Beach, have shed more polished pre-pandemic personas for functional, comfortable clothes. “I can’t wear some of them because they’re too big on me,” said the dancer, who went from practicing with his team for hours every day to being stuck at home."[Before] I would need to eat in order to function. But after that, we didn’t have practice, everything was shut down, so I sort of stopped eating.”“A huge demographic for us is high schoolers,” said Eric Hart, general manager for the Goodwill of Southern California’s popular Atwater Village store.