Tonight I began (at least made it more official and when and why) discussing dressing well. My dad did, but he never talked about it (kind of a typical stoic man for his era) and I probably would have ignored it. I did t say that some day they would have to dress like this or anything fear generating. Instead, I said that if and when you ever to decide, you might remember these discussions. If I’m still around, I will gladly help. As my father passed say in his 50s, I don’t want to to make presumptions that delay my conversations with them. The topic is based on one item in my outfit. As I am wearing a pink puppytooth Winchester shirt, we went with the shirt. How does it differ from a normal one, history, the “power suit” of the 80s (the whole house loves the 80s). That was it. I didn’t want it to drag on. Or so I thought that was it. My older son asked about the pattern (tiny houndstooth) and so I shared that. My younger son asked about it being pink. He actually wears a pink hoodie for his travel baseball team (just swag wear), so was curious if other guys wear pink in their suits. Blew me away that, not only did they not object, but they asked questions.

As many of you have probably, I have saved a lot of photos of Brian McGuire’s outfits. Last night I did some mixing and matching with three new thrifted sport coats and other accessories. This was probably my favorite; a lavender check shirt from Charles Tyrwhitt, green Cashmere sweater from Orvis, regimental tie by Pierre Cardin and tweed sport coat by Daniel Hechter, all thrifted, except the pocket square. I will say I’m not a huge fan of the spread collars on my CT shirts. Aside from that, not too bad! Oh, down below were boot cut Levi’s and my Justin ropers. I could have easily gone with straight cut jeans and tan Allen Edmonds, and left off the tie. Lots of experimenting, thanks to our professor of style!

I hope everybody has a great New Year's!

I have decided to pay as I feel there is still a lot of value here and you guys are the best. I have learned so much from both how you dress, the posts you write and the quality of your character. If you are going I didn’t want anyone to leave without expressing my appreciation to you for the changes you have helped me generate in myself.