Seeing this post reminds me of what happened at lunch today. It’s a warm, sunny day. It’s past Memorial Day. And it’s Friday. If those don’t combine to give the perfect reason to wear a patchwork Madras jacket, what will? So I wore one today.
At lunch, I got a number of compliments on how nice my “suit” was.
WTF?
Doesn’t anyone know the difference between a suit and a sport coat these days?
OK, I’m in California, where people think that wearinng a t-shirt that has been recently washed counts as dressing nicely, but I’d really expect more people to know what’a a suit and what’s not.
lm, that one has been around for a while. A guy I used to know made that mistake in about 1990, and when I pointed out his error (gently, I thought), he brushed it off.
If you never wear a sport coat or a suit, why would you know the difference between them?
@ Athlone
You can take the boy out of LA, but you can’t take LA out of the boy, it would seem.
I recommend a spell hanging around Harvard with intermittent pops to the Andover shop.
I can assure you that you CAN take LA out of the boy. All it takes is an exposure to San Francisco or NY/New England culture and the substance-free LA influence disappears.
If only the inseam wasn’t so long…
JTS
Sewing machines do not exist in your universe? 😉
And if only the patchwork quilt wasn’t so loud. It’s a horrible, cruel world, ain’t it JTS?
“Sewing machines do not exist in your universe?”
I really need to get one and relearn how to use it at some point, all that 9th grade Home-Ec gone to waste…
“And if only the patchwork quilt wasn’t so loud. It’s a horrible, cruel world, ain’t it JTS?”
Ha, the louder the better!
Seeing this post reminds me of what happened at lunch today. It’s a warm, sunny day. It’s past Memorial Day. And it’s Friday. If those don’t combine to give the perfect reason to wear a patchwork Madras jacket, what will? So I wore one today.
At lunch, I got a number of compliments on how nice my “suit” was.
WTF?
Doesn’t anyone know the difference between a suit and a sport coat these days?
OK, I’m in California, where people think that wearinng a t-shirt that has been recently washed counts as dressing nicely, but I’d really expect more people to know what’a a suit and what’s not.
…”where people think that wearing a t-shirt that has been recently washed counts as dressing nicely” wins comment of the week prize.
If the t-shirt has not only been recently washed but recently ironed it counts as ultra-formal garb.
Sorry LA Escapee, no second prizes this week.
Dress like a child? I’ll keep my long trousers, thank you.
@Bags’ Groove
Isn’t it obvious that LA Escapee’s first prize was a one-way ticket from LA?
lm, that one has been around for a while. A guy I used to know made that mistake in about 1990, and when I pointed out his error (gently, I thought), he brushed it off.
If you never wear a sport coat or a suit, why would you know the difference between them?
@James
You sound positively Victorian. Do you have long trousers covering the legs of your furniture?
@ Athlone
You can take the boy out of LA, but you can’t take LA out of the boy, it would seem.
I recommend a spell hanging around Harvard with intermittent pops to the Andover shop.
Bags’ Groove:
I can assure you that you CAN take LA out of the boy. All it takes is an exposure to San Francisco or NY/New England culture and the substance-free LA influence disappears.
Having to resort to capitals to try to make your point, James? How unfortunate.
JTS,
In fact the inseam is perfect. Those are shorts for a gentleman.