Schmatta is a Yiddish term meaning a gross, rag-like, or dirty piece of clothing. Your wrinkled bed top is a schmatta. Your picked-at Wet n Wild blue nailpolish is schmatta-adjacent. Everything you wore/bought in the ‘90s was schmatta-worthy. Most design is schmatta.
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