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August 09, 2004
Clothing and accoutrements
I'm watching McLaughlin Group and I notice that every last one of these guys is wearing cufflinks. My initial impulse is to scoff at them because they're so adorned, but I like the idea of a crisp white shirt with cufflinks to keep my sleeves fastened and properly presented.
I should find a tailor who will measure me for a custom shirt and then scour pawn shops for a pair of links that say something about me. Sounds so pretentious. But shouldn't an adult have a shirt and a pair of cufflinks?
John McLaughlin looks ridiculous, incidentally. He's wearing a black suit with wide chalk stripes that makes him look like a character in Johnny Dangerously.
I don't spend very much on clothes, but there are a few things in my closet -- a blue suit and a Versace jacket -- that I do enjoy wearing. I bought the suit for a meeting with Francis Ford Coppola, and I wore the Versace the night I won five hundy at Treasure Island in LV.
I'm not a name-dropping asshole, I just think it's funny that these threads are associated with high points, however meaningless. Anyway, I think I'll start looking into the custom shirt idea.
Posted by Your Protagonist at August 9, 2004 12:55 AM