{"id":1286,"date":"2015-05-14T13:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2015-05-14T10:32:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T17:32:17","slug":"sartorially-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/14\/sartorially-challenged\/","title":{"rendered":"Sartorially Challenged"},"content":{"rendered":"

Postaday for May 14th: The Clothes (May) Make the (Wo)man<\/a>.<\/strong> How important are clothes to you? Describe your style, if you have one, and tell us how appearance impacts how you feel about yourself.<\/em><\/p>\n

I have no style. I am a 43-year-old married white man, upper middle-class, chubby, raised in the mid-west, work from home. I am the antithesis of style. I could wear the nattiest tux, cowboy boots and a beer hat and still be invisible. I\u2019ve got a bear\u2014out of laziness. I\u2019ve got a receding hairline\u2014 thanks, genetics. I\u2019ve got green eyes, but I\u2019m going to have to go back to glasses soon, so say goodbye to seeing those.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not bitter or anything. I\u2019m no fashion monkey\u2026 not that I begrudge other\u2019s their sartorial endeavors. Have at it. My wife looks good in pretty much everything (I admit I am biased, however). And some people have the body to make even jeans and a t-shirt look good, so it doesn\u2019t matter what they wear. I guess I\u2019m the opposite of that\u2014 nothing\u2019s going to make people go wow when they see me, so jeans and a t-shirt it is.<\/p>\n

If anything, lately, I\u2019m finding that all my favorite t-shirts are gray. And when I buy a shirt for some reason, I end upo getting ray ones. Not sure why this is. Otherwise, shirt tend to run towards non-branded and plain. Or I find I\u2019ll choose them for how soft they are. I am the opposite of the woman in the Steve Martin short story Cruel Shoes.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I do get in a Hawaiian short mood. I have a handful of those, and I like to wear them now and again. I thinki that\u2019s because I like tropical vacations so much, and I want to somehow magically evoke that sense of peace and relaxation. Either that, or its because on TV retired spies and private eyes wear Hawaiian shirts and while I don\u2019t have the guys and bravado to be a spy, I think I\u2019d be a pretty good retired spy.<\/p>\n

At our house I\u2019m the one who does the laundry, and even though there\u2019s only two of us, it sure does feel like a lot of laundry. I think if I ever won the lottery, I\u2019d just have new clothes delivered to the house every day. In a variety of styles. \u201cBut wouldn\u2019t it be better to hire someone to do your laundry?\u201d Nah, this is a fantasy, so let me have my dream. New clothes, every day, especially socks. nothing<\/em>\u00a0feels better than putting on brand-new socks.<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s where the proof of my style-less-ness comes through. I like hawaiin shorts, cargo shorts, and new socks. You tell me what that would look like \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Postaday for May 14th: The Clothes (May) Make the (Wo)man. How important are clothes to you? Describe your style, if you have one, and tell us how appearance impacts how you feel about yourself. I have no style. I am a 43-year-old married white man, upper middle-class, chubby, raised in the mid-west, work from home. … <\/p>\n

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