I am 27, almost 28 and I haven’t changed my fashion too much from middle/high school. T-shirts and shorts are my everyday outfit. (Hey, at least I “upgraded” from oversized basketball shorts to knee-length cotton shorts) I have elevated pieces - i.e. wool trousers, penny loafers, overshirts, selvedge denim jeans I just feel like it’s ”weird” for me to dress better. I know this feeling goes away and is normal for a lot of people, but it’s so overwhelmingly strong for me that if I have a “nicer” outfit than usual on, I just go back inside the house to change back into what feels normal. I also have no idea how to style pieces together, and I’m sort of a perfectionist in the worst way possible. If I don’t think an outfit perfectly meshes together, I just give up and resort to my usual, which is undoubtedly even worse. So it doesn’t even make sense most of the time. I have a hard time sticking to one fashion style too. I don’t know if this is a bad thing, but I really do like multiple different styles. Heritage/workwear, minimalism, ivy/preppy, and classic sartorial really resonate with me, and I feel like I have a good-enough body type to pull most things off, I just don’t know how to. OF COURSE I’m not going to combine multiple/all styles into one outfit, I was thinking more of a day-by-day rotation between styles and also depending on the weather. Basically all I’m saying is that I seriously let perfect be the enemy of good. I wonder how other people got out of this.

I have an interview with a local grocery store (Giant Food). It’s part time work. But if hired at least I’ll have more to do. This is what I’m wearing. For reference it’s around 70 degrees Fahrenheit outside. I’m wearing a sweater because my shirt is a tad wrinkly. And I feel better wearing it. I also wear black pants (cargos or chinos. Just my chinos don’t currently fit) as part of my personal uniform.

Why is it a big day today? Because every day is a big day. Live with purpose.

Ok boys, it’s already real hot in North Carolina. I’d been living in (Southern) Italy the last few years, and swear by linen in warm weather. Classy, comfortable and incredibly effective to help with the heat- however- nobody here seems to be wearing it. Except me, of course. Dudes have been stopping me and saying “what’s that?” Or “how can you be in long sleeves/ pants right now?” And have genuinely never heard of linen clothes. The real question is… why? Are most dudes just opposed to branching out from what is standard?