Twillory light blue dress shirt over tan Vertx pants. Brown Anson belt with gunmetal buckle and brown boots. Nautica blue dial watch and Scent Reserve inspired Green Irish Tweed. 2nd full day of the conference and hopefully will be heading back home around 3 tomorrow. Ready to get home and back to normal life.

Watch 76 years old✅ Shoes 43 years old✅ Tie 35 years old✅ Suit 30 years old✅ Shirt 10 years old✅ Any one who has taken the time to read any of my posts has heard me blather on about Classic TIMELESS menswear and how it is timeless because this style endures and thus provides some great value because one can wear it for many years on many occasions. Today I thought I might blather on about the use of adding interest to the basic grey timeless suit with the use of harmonizing colors and patterns. Firstly colors. While I am not a color wheel guy- I do use the “color wheel” of nature. The greatest artist of all time provides some pretty compelling combinations: a backdrop of Blue sky filled with clouds, and in the foreground grey barked trees with deep green leaves = grey suit, with blue and white shirt, with teal green tie. While some store clerks might recommend trying to match a color of thread or even the grey suit with some matching color in a tie to “blend” it together- Harold used to teach us to “harmonize color” the same way that harmonizing with a melody adds depth to a piece of music. This quote of his was drilled into us. Another thing Harold explained was that our inventory was what he called narrow and deep (fewer colors but a bigger variety of suitings and sport coats in each of those fewer number of colors.) This forced us to add accesory colors together more creatively. Most department stores and many wearhouse stores are wide and deep (with many colors and patterns of suits and sport coats) naturally with this huge inventory to unload on customers, the task is to pick some thread or base color and blend the tie and shirt together. I find this much less creative. In the old days I could delineate guys who shopped at one of our quality competitors versus a department store based upon their accessories. Secondly patterns. Again to add interest to the basic grey suit pattern, harmonizing patterns can add interest as well. Antonio has some brilliant videos about how to match the size and directions of patterns together. A beginner on upping their wardrobe should probably stick with Antonio’s great solid module or “capsule” plan at first. Mixing patterns can take several years for a guy to do on his own without help from a professional clothier. What is sad is when guys get stuck and still think that patterns can’t be mixed. I assure you they can. Today’s OOTD began with my windowpane shirt. I knew a grey suit would be a no brainer and even though the suit has a ghosted lighter grey window pane I knew it’s larger style, thinner line, and pale color wouldn’t conflict with the shirt pattern. Then as I mentioned earlier knowing that grey with green and blue were great combos-I went looking for a suitable green tie (my ties are arranged by color). The woven silk tie I chose had a larger ameba pattern so I knew it couldn’t conflict with the windowpane shirt. The tie “reads” green but is actually a black background with small teal houndstooth repeating pattern. How a pattern (and color) “reads” is important when harmonizing. At 5 feet away the tie appears (reads) as a solid green. At about 2 feet the pattern becomes visible. Working at mastering this concept of how colors and patterns read adds depth to a very basic suit.

Good morning gentlemen, When I was growing up as a kid we wore pajamas. As I got older I always thought pajamas as for kids and old men clothing. And I'm sure myself and many of us went through that commando period of sleeping all natural. Then there was the period of wearing sweat pants or shorts to bed. So one day not too long ago, I was re evaluating my life, style, wardrobe, I was looking at clothes online and I saw these men in pajamas and matching robes. My first immature impression was “ man, they moved into grandpa status at an early age.” But then for some reason I kept looking at these pajamas and robes. Then I was listening to one of the pod cast about gentleman’s sleep wear and they were talking about men’s pajamas. I kept thinking “ I can’t sleep in that I would feel constrained!” But then I was like “ Okay, I am going back to that to that negative common rationale of what everyone is doing.” So I made a decision that I was going to give it a try. So I went to Walmart and found a pair of men’s pajamas, thinking “ I’ll get a cheap set so if I don’t like them I am not out a lot of money.” So I bought a pair and that night I put them on. To my surprise I was not only comfortable but it was like I had the best sleep in a long time. Now, my first impression was “ I was just really tired.” So the next night I wore them again. And I continued to wear them and I was sleeping more comfortable at night. I then was like “ Man, this is amazing.” Now I started thinking I want to get some more but better quality pairs of pajamas and get matching robes to put on instead of the old robe that I had for years that most of the time hung up in the closet. So I I found a couple of sets in Satan and flannel for colder nights. But what I found out is this. I use to shower throw on some sweat pants and a old logo shirt ( that is what I use my old logo shirts for now) and read, lounge around the house, maybe watch a movie or something. But now after showering and putting on my pajamas and matching robe, I feel so relaxed and comfortable at home. I even have a pair of nice house slippers instead of the socks, flip flops, or bare foot method that I use to do,

"Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you to what is true., every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment." Og Mandino Have a great day brothers. Do not let life or failure keep you from your peace and happiness.

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