I'm done with Levis (Rant)

[smstonypoint]

I'm getting to the point that I'm going to buy 7 sets of the exact same shirts, pants, underwear and socks and throw all my other clothes away. It'd make my closet and drawers a whole lot less cluttered and make my life simpler.

I might even buy one of those circular apparel racks like you see in a store and hang everything on that. That way I'm not digging in the corner of the closet, I can just walk around the dang thing.

This reminds me of one of my professors in graduate school. I had him for a sequence of mathematical statistics courses over three consecutive quarters (fall, winter, spring). His uniform over the entire period consisted of a brownish corduroy suit and a turtleneck. I think that he must have had multiple suits and turtlenecks of the same color -- he didn't smell up the entire classroom.

I seem to recall reading that Tom Wolfe has 25+ white suits.

Steve

 

[Bird]

I had a little laser surgery on my right eye Tuesday by the same ophthalmologist who did my cataract surgery 7 years ago. And I've never seen him in anything other than solid black pants and shirt. I don't know where he buys them, what brand, etc., but I reckon he's almost as set in his ways as I am.:laughing:

 

[N80]

I seem to recall reading that Tom Wolfe has 25+ white suits.

Steve

I suspect having 25 white suits says more about a man than that he is an author or a southerner....if you get my drift.

 

[N80]

I had a little laser surgery on my right eye Tuesday by the same ophthalmologist who did my cataract surgery 7 years ago. And I've never seen him in anything other than solid black pants and shirt. I don't know where he buys them, what brand, etc., but I reckon he's almost as set in his ways as I am.:laughing:

I work in a doctor's office. I wear khaki pants and a button down shirt from Joseph A. Bank (that my wife buys for me) every day. Most of the shirts are white or blue but some of them have patterns. But that's my uniform. After 4 years in a military college and 6 in the USAF I came to like a uniform. No decisions to make each morning.

 

[smstonypoint]

I suspect having 25 white suits says more about a man than that he is an author or a southerner....if you get my drift.

I'm not sure that I do.

Wolfe adopted the white suit as a trademark in 1962. He bought his first white suit planning to wear it in the summer in the style of Southern gentlemen. However, he found that the suit he purchased was too heavy for summer use, so he wore it in winter, which created a sensation. Wolfe has maintained this uniform ever since, sometimes worn with a matching white tie, white homburg hat, and two-tone shoes. Wolfe has said that the outfit disarms the people he observes, making him, in their eyes, "a man from Mars, the man who didn't know anything and was eager to know."

Tom Wolfe - Wikipedia

Steve

 

[N80]

I'm not sure that I do.

Steve

You shouldn't. I was mistaken. Wolfe's quote you cited above says:

Wolfe has said that the outfit disarms the people he observes, making him, in their eyes, "a man from Mars, the man who didn't know anything and was eager to know."

Oscar Wilde said something very similar, if not exactly the same, about his peculiar form of dressing a century before. I assumed Wolfe and Wilde shared the same sexual orientation. They do not. My mistake.

 

[gsganzer]

Are you a communist or something? (Line from old Seinfeld episode).

My daughters say my favorite color is camo. Although I don't really wear camo that often, even when hunting. Earth tones seem to work just as well and offer more versatility.

 

[N80]

My daughters say my favorite color is camo. Although I don't really wear camo that often, even when hunting. Earth tones seem to work just as well and offer more versatility.

I don't use much camo for hunting deer. Brown jacket, green pants. I sit on the ground. I don't worry about scents or wind direction and they still walk right up to me.

I'll usually put on a little camo for turkeys. But even then it's 90's era BDUs. Turkeys never walk right up to me. :-(

 

[gsganzer]

I don't use much camo for hunting deer. Brown jacket, green pants. I sit on the ground. I don't worry about scents or wind direction and they still walk right up to me.

I'll usually put on a little camo for turkeys. But even then it's 90's era BDUs. Turkeys never walk right up to me. :-(

Spring turkey is my favorite hunting of all. When I turkey hunt, I'm in full camo with a face net. I don't need any excuses for not bagging one.

 

[gsganzer]

I posted earlier about the wrangler Riggs. I wear the 5 pocket jeans model and the ripstom ranger pants. Wrangler Riggs Jeans