Category: clothing
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When You Want To Dress Well
Dress in the style that was current when you were at your best. Pray it was not a fashion period that featured flared trousers and sideburns. You will always feel best and look best when you are relaxed, and nothing reassures you as well as the fashions of your peak. You remember being strong and…
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I Was Shabby…
Before it was chic. Most of my wardrobe has a common theme – it is common. There are two suits that make me look elegant, one that makes me look respectable, and all the rest of the garments are merely barriers between me and the atmosphere. The length of time over which this pile of…
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Do I Look Like That?
Sometimes we run with a crowd for so long that we stop seeing what they look like. And we stop seeing what we look like as well. Even the morning shaving mirror is blank. Then we visit a new venue, or see a new crowd and notice the oddities amongst them. The ones that look…
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When You Want To Dress Well
Dress in the style that was current when you were at your best. Pray it was not a fashion period that featured flared trousers and sideburns. You will always feel best and look best when you are relaxed, and nothing reassures you as well as the fashions of your peak time. You remember being strong…
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The Anti-Connoisseur
The must be a word to describe the chap who is does not care whether something is the best. Who cheerfully takes what is offered and doesn’t judge it. The unfussy fellow. And there should be a complementary term for him…not one that sneers or points up error…because the anti-connoisseur may be the sanest person…
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Suspension Of Disbelief
This is nothing beside the effort needed to suspend the average set of trousers. I have arrived at the age of falling arches, enthusiasm, and trousers. Belts are not likely to keep the garments in place and walking or working leads to the perilous point where you risk public disclosure of sensitive information. Fortunately the…
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Public School Uniform
I remember reading a number of arguments put forward a half-century ago about the practice of requiring school uniforms for children. Of course there are still schools who require this now – in some cases quite a wardrobe for various functions…and these can change yearly as the students advance. Some uniforms seem quite functional –…
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My Dress Is Your Dross
And vice versa. So glad we do not share a wardrobe, eh? Modern people generally do not make their garments from scratch. Few of us cultivate reed swamps, cotton fields, or flocks of sheep. Oh, there are enthusiasts who do, and we appreciate they industry in shearing, carding, spinning, and weaving. Bless them – whatever…
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Home Thoughts At the Fire
Our hearth is a portable gas heater that plugs into a socket on the wall. It’s 35 years old but is serviced regularly and has not set anyone on fire, even if they deserved it. It’s got an electric fan to distribute hot air, so it may have been originally from Canberra… I can’t tell…