It’s my wife’s birthday today and I’ll be taking her to lunch during the work day. Meetings this morning before I do that. - windowpane white and blue button up - Charcoal zip up vest - Brown leather belt - Slim straight blue jeans - Cognac lace up boots - Bulova Marine Star watch - SOTD SpiceBomb night vision

10 years ago I bought our pastor his family tartan for a scout Scottish weekend that coincided with Easter weekend. Every Easter Saturday we walk the stations of the cross around the pond on the 25 acres the church has and a few of us kilt up for the event.

“I honestly don’t think my style has changed much since I was perhaps 17 or so……Changes since then can be measured in quarter-inches. I find that as I age, I become more interested in simplicity, paring down, minimalizing. I’m a great deal more Doric than Corinthian these days. Simplicity of cut has become a hallmark.” G. Bruce Boyer 8/27/2023 USDrake.com https://pin.it/10UGAPy5p I can relate to this comment by Boyer. As an adolescent I dressed and thought as an adolescent. After working in clothing I adopted a more mature classic timeless understanding of clothing that has been fundamentally the same since I was 17. My philosophy has been that if a photo of me is taken,(especially if one is in a tie) the clothing should never give away the year the picture was taken. (Can’t really help the cruel ravages of Father Time and gravity ). Since beginning this journey in my late teens, it’s been a process of fine tuning rather than changing. I’ve included my Senior yearbook pic from 1978 against one taken this afternoon. In each I am wearing a navy blazer with a white shirt with a classic two bar rep tie (also sometimes called a three stripe regimental or many simply call it the Brooks Brothers stripe). In my attached senior pic I had never even heard of Brooks Brothers yet. Is the outfit here exciting? Nope. Could it have been worn by any guy on virtually any single day for about the last 100 years? Yup. My only style upgrades in the last nearly 50 years has been the fit is honed in and the fabrics have vastly improved. The function (what one wears when and where) hasn’t really changed at all. The mistakes I have made is to not take better care of both my garments as well as my body ( I bet I’ve had to give away tens of thousands of dollars worth of clothing because I chose to eat too much). Essentially I took the quality of clothing I had and the money I was making for granted. The biggest style upgrades I have made have been quality of clothes and better care of clothing.