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The Sighting System
Piecesget around
Spotted a Lit piece out in the world? Log it. The garment is the find, never the person wearing it.
A Lit piece seen on a stranger in another city is the best thing that can happen to it. The Sighting System lets you mark that, and it is built so that doing so tells nobody anything about whoever is wearing it.
You are logging a piece of clothing, not a person. Nobody is collected, ranked, followed or scored.
A detail of the cloth, the setting or an event check-in all count. A face is never needed and never helps.
The spotter never sees the owner and the owner never sees the spotter. No map, no venue, no time. At most, a city.
From the label to the count, with a person at the end of it. Repeat sightings of the same garment never count twice.
Pick it from the list, or say you are not sure. If the wearer lets you scan the label inside, the piece comes attached.
A photo of the cloth or the setting helps the check. It is optional, and it never needs a face.
Asking the wearer is the best proof. A detail of the cloth, the setting or an event check-in also count.
Every sighting waits for someone at the studio. Nothing counts, or appears anywhere, until then.
Name the piece you saw, pick how you can show it, and add a photo of the garment if you have one. If the wearer lets you scan the label, its passport brings you here with the piece already attached.
They confirm from their own account, on their phone, standing next to you. Nobody is photographed without agreeing to it first.
A sleeve, a label, a mesh panel. Close enough that no person is identifiable in frame.
The room, the street, the queue — with nobody recognisable in it.
At a pop-up or a listed event, the location itself is the proof. No photograph needed.
Sign in before you log a sighting and it earns points once it is confirmed. Logging stays open to everyone; only members earn.
Sign in or create an accountEvery sighting a person at the studio confirms earns Field Points. They go into the same balance as Drop Points and spend the same way.
The most we will ever publish: how many confirmed sightings a piece has, and across how many cities. No places, no dates, no names, no map.
No confirmed sightings yet
Counts appear here once the first sightings have been checked. We would rather show a zero than a number nobody earned.
Log the first oneWhich piece it was (from the list, or from its label code if you came through one), the kind of proof you chose and, only if you gave them, a broad city, a short note and a photo. If you are signed in, which member logged it, so the points reach you. The photo is stripped of its location data before it is stored, seen only by the person checking the sighting, and deleted once they have. No name, no email, no exact place, no time beyond when it was logged.
Staff at the Lit Apparel studio, to check it. The public only ever sees a count: how many confirmed sightings a piece has, and in how many cities.
Today, nothing. Letting owners opt in to hear that their piece was seen, and in which city, is planned. Never by whom, where or when.
A confirmed sighting earns 25 points, or 50 when the wearer confirms it themselves. They go into the same balance as Drop Points, worth $0.25 each off a drop preorder, from 40 points. Each garment pays you once, up to 5 sightings a week; past that a sighting still counts here, without points. Withdrawn sightings lose their points.
To log one, no: anyone can, and an anonymous sighting still counts on this page. To earn Field Points, yes. Only a sighting logged while you are signed in earns, 25 points once a person has confirmed it (50 when the wearer confirms it). The public still only ever sees counts.
Start with your own. Or see how the people who own them wear them, in The Worn Archive.
Before you log anything