Moving Towards Precision
Jan. 2nd, 2003 11:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldWhen I got off work at 7 o'clock this night (originally I was supposed to work just until 5 o'clock, but a coworker called in sick) I went directly to Moore's--a menswear shop in the Charlottetown Mall--where I bought a suit. After an hour of trying different suits on, I settled for a sharp dark charcoal suit with a three-button jacket (standard cut, apparently, as opposed to the more European four-button jacket and the more traditional two-button jacket), and bought two dress shirt-and-tie sets.
The total cost came to a bit over 400 dollars, which (I suppose) is money that I don't have (I do, actually, but metaphorically speaking you understand ...) but then they were on sale. Too, I find that suits have a highly professional appearance of the type that I find attractive. There was also a nice black pinstripe suit that was my second choice, but then it would have cost another 250 dollars by itself, never mind the cost of the shirt-and-tie sets I'd need to match with it. I'll pick the suit up next week; perhaps I might wear one shirt-and-tie set along with a pair of dress pants to work. But then, in order to do that I'll need to go to the gym. Ah well.
(A side note: Although I found the salesman cute, when I went to buy a calendar (I picked Dilbert) I found the cheesecake pictures of women rather more interesting than the cheesecake pictures of guys. More hidden, perhaps? This trend continued when I watched Ed the Sock's Muchmusic show awarding prizes for "cheeziest video." Kelly Osbourne's "Papa Don't Preach" won that award, incidentally.)
I bought the latest issues of The Economist and Foreign Policy. Good magazines, especially The Economist, which had its Christmas/New Year's edition on sale. An interesting article on how Texas is pioneering the future of the US, like other large states (California, New York) before it.
The total cost came to a bit over 400 dollars, which (I suppose) is money that I don't have (I do, actually, but metaphorically speaking you understand ...) but then they were on sale. Too, I find that suits have a highly professional appearance of the type that I find attractive. There was also a nice black pinstripe suit that was my second choice, but then it would have cost another 250 dollars by itself, never mind the cost of the shirt-and-tie sets I'd need to match with it. I'll pick the suit up next week; perhaps I might wear one shirt-and-tie set along with a pair of dress pants to work. But then, in order to do that I'll need to go to the gym. Ah well.
(A side note: Although I found the salesman cute, when I went to buy a calendar (I picked Dilbert) I found the cheesecake pictures of women rather more interesting than the cheesecake pictures of guys. More hidden, perhaps? This trend continued when I watched Ed the Sock's Muchmusic show awarding prizes for "cheeziest video." Kelly Osbourne's "Papa Don't Preach" won that award, incidentally.)
I bought the latest issues of The Economist and Foreign Policy. Good magazines, especially The Economist, which had its Christmas/New Year's edition on sale. An interesting article on how Texas is pioneering the future of the US, like other large states (California, New York) before it.
