Musician Olive Panthofer created a dress from paid parking tickets collected across San Francisco as cover art for a song critiquing SFMTA's citation system.

The dress started with eight parking tickets—about $800 worth that Olive "Pants" Panthofer couldn't pay after losing her biotech job in March. Then it grew. Friends slipped her tickets at parties. A yoga client in Nob Hill brought stacks of 12 at a time. A Nextdoor user in Lower Haight collected discarded citations from his driveway. Now more than 100 paid parking tickets are sewn, folded, and taped onto a white dress Panthofer found in her closet.

The 26-year-old musician, who goes by @olivepantz online, created the piece as cover art for a diss track about the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. She posted on Reddit this week, writing that the song "SF money-taking agency" was out on streaming platforms, though a search of her Spotify artist page shows no such track as of press time. The project began as community art—she solicited paid tickets from across the city, turning individual frustrations into something wearable. Each ticket is folded accordion-style, glued onto buttons, and arranged to flare at the hem like a flapper dress. The sweetheart neckline fans out like starbursts.

Panthofer's frustration with SFMTA runs deeper than the citations. To pay off her tickets, she enrolled in the agency's community service program, which requires a $29 to $84 fee and 21 hours of work cleaning city buses at $20 credit per hour. "The shifts start at 4 a.m.," she told Mission Local. "It really sucked, but I didn't have a job."

The dress, photographed on a mannequin she bought in Chinatown, has become a conversation starter about the cost of parking in San Francisco. People now think of her when they get tickets, she said, adding some "giggliness" to an otherwise miserable experience. The project turned personal financial pain into a collective statement—one parking ticket at a time.