You can expect to find a few Slippery Rock University shirts in the wardrobe of the school’s alumni. If you sort through Aaron Fry’s closet, you’d swear he attended SRU for a few decades in the mid to late 20th century –– and that he is a bit of a hoarder. He has nearly a hundred Slippery Rock T-shirts and sweatshirts, mostly from the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s.
But Fry graduated in 2023, not long after taking up a hobby as a vintage clothing collector, and he has developed an appreciation for SRU apparel from bygone eras.
“It started when I decided to come to Slippery Rock and I needed some stuff to wear to class, and then it slowly turned into an obsession with the history of the university with clothing,” said Fry, a Pittsburgh native who earned his degree in finance. “I just kept going down the rabbit hole and I haven’t really come back.”
As a vintage clothing collector, Fry is most interested in…
