When it’s the exception to the norm then it can be right. Anyone familiar with Dwight Shrute, the insufferable character on the Office will understand my T shirt. On one of our live albums four of us in the band were listening to the raw pre mixed three hour original recording and cringing as we heard ourselves mis notes and intonations -well three of us did. Carl, our English horn player in our Celtic band 🤷🏻 kept replying… “I think I did Ok”. So naturally we named that album “Carl did OK”. The T shirt that was on the album cover depicted Carl raising his horn and riding a sheep off into the celestial heavens. It was our top selling shirt. Since I named my sailboat Celtic Cheer after our band, Timothy O’Brians Celtic Cheer, that makes every T Shirt an official ship uniform- right 😎? Anyway took my wife son his wife and their friends out for a low-wind sunset sail with the Guinness flag a flying. My son had on a sailclub graphic T that on The back it reads “the beatings will continue until moral improves”. A hot August sail night - I am very cool with graphic T’s. Lots of fun tonight

Today was.the last day of this year’s Dublin Irish Festival. As many of you know, I bought a new balmoral hat, so I needed to put together an outfit ro go with the hat instead of the outfit I had planned for the day. The only things that I kept the same was the blue linen band collar shirt and the chili dress boots. As rhe hat has a purple pattern, I grabbed the purple brocaded waistcoat with brown trousers and a white jabot. Overall I think I came up with a nice Scottish inspired look.

I’ve mentioned this before. Harold used to say colors, like music, has so much more depth when harmonized not simply coordinated (matched). Likewise patterns can be combined as long as some essential rules are followed: larger stripes on tie with patterned shirts along with a suit that reads mostly solid from a reasonable distance. Worked on both of those skills assembling today’s OOTD. I still can spot a guy wearing a Harold’s Tie even if that tie is at least 30 years old. Their color and patterns were simply not as common as many stores. Today’s tie is a Harold’s tie in a moss green with a burgundy and gold with cream stripe. Coupled with an Oxford two tone blue tattersall against a white background some guys might be restrained to mix this combo. ( irrespective of the fact God mixes greens with blues daily in nature). But this combo overlain with the light grey with charcoal fancy stripped 1997 MTM suit consequentially combines tree bark (suit) with a mossy creek (tie) and clouds with deep and light blues (shirt). As seen in nature, these colors are harmonized daily. In other words this color and pattern harmonizing is typical of the training I received by Harold over 40!+Years ago and have been practicing since. Rest of outfit: new Polka dot green pocket square Pantherella merino OTC socks 1993 AE shell cordovan brogues in British Tan 1940’s Ernest Borell watch