Wearing a suit

[jack]

A friend's girlfriend saw me in the street wearing a suit, and their comment was "It says something about you that our best guess was that you were doing office-themed LARP, rather than going to a job interview or something."

In fact, I was going to BA dinner with college daughter and college niece.

FWIW, most people I know do very much tend to jeans and black T-shirts sort of clothes. I hypothesise that we generally value time above appearance, and also have a streak of non-conformance. And I hypothesise that that makes dressing up for social events and special occasions more attractive.

In fact, due to equally proportioned blame confusion, we were going to BA dinner the *next* night, and so I joined them and Is-and-her-James (all their boyfriends are called James, it's just one of those things) for Pizza Express.

But it's quite nice wearing a suit out. It looks good and is comfortable. I would more often, except for the aforementioned lack of desire to get smart clothes cleaned and ironed regularly, and the fact that ironing shirts better might pass unnoticed (and be definitely a good thing), wearing a suit casually would produce nothing but remarks :)

I still find excuses to wear suits on dates sometimes :)

Comments

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

I imagine you would look good in a suit. My ex-husband didn't; he always looked as if he'd slept in it, no matter how hard he tried. Some people are just like that.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you. There's photos somewhere :)

[ilanin.livejournal.com]

You have a streak of non-conformance, so you all tend to the same type of clothes? Run that one by me again...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Run that one by me again...

"I hypothesise that we generally value time above appearance, and also have a streak of non-conformance."

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

(I assume you're amused by the way I phrased it rather than actually thinking that doesn't work. I can think about it more if you want, probably starting with the fact I've no idea if that's a good thing, nor if anyone else would agree with my guesses :))

[bouteillebleu.livejournal.com]

It took me at least three reads of this post before I realised that "Is" was me. These belated posts get awfully confusing sometimes...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Agh. Yes I tend to write posts talking so far round the point I never actually say it... Sometimes it's funny, occasionally I myself am unable to puzzle out what I meant...