My Best Friend for almost 40yrs and his son have been noticing my shoes, clothing and how I care for them. His son pulled me aside last weekend and asked me to help him with a pair of shoes his father gave him years ago but they’re ratty. He figured they were garbage. I said give them to me and I’ll see what I can do. That same evening he explained that he admires how I dress and he really wants to start presenting himself better at work. He said he wears decent clothes but always with sneaker shoes and he really wants to step it up. I told him that I’d be thrilled to show him how to care for his items and take him to thrift stores or show him how to search on eBay and it would be my pleasure to help him get started. Either way these are his fathers old Ferragamo loafers before and after. It just goes to show. People pay attentions and some have the same desire. We need to show up for the next generation otherwise we can’t complain about how they dress. Especially if they want to learn the sartorial way.

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.

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