This is the all-time winner in non-verbal comments about my clothing.
I was driving my car, wearing white shirt and tie, my suit coat off and on the seat beside me. I turned a corner and saw a young man in white shirt and tie crossing the street. There's a neat-looking kid, I thought. I...
Does anyone else here have a “retro” workspace? I have seen threads about people’s home offices but I don’t think I have seen any pictures of anyone’s real work environment. For me, the way my work environment looks and feels is very important for me to do my best work, and when I left a group...
The current issue of the magazine for the American Association of Retired Persons has a feature called "Time Out" that bears the headline "They're Back (the 1930s, That Is)". Comparing two columns of "Then" and "Now", they have categories of feel-good movie, frugal transportation, career...
Does anyone here have a “lucky hat”? I had one that didn’t survive a change of residence two years ago. It was my favorite hat; a brown fedora of dubious origins that got beat up and stained over so many years that I forgot why I called it my lucky hat when I got it back in the early ‘80s. I...
In the current issue of Esquire magazine, a reader asks the style editor for guidance in hat etiquette (page 46). The editor responds, "The rules governing the doffing of hats are as odd and anachronistic as the people who still insist on wearing them."
I feel strangely insulted and...
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