... that would be tomorrow, right? Or Not.
Heh. That's pretty good as well as bein' pretty much the ONLY hockey you'll see on ESPN.
But while we're on about "Casual Friday..." I used to HATE that day, coz "casual" really isn't; the day should be called "Corporate Casual Friday." When EDS broke down and authorized a Casual Friday I had to go out and buy a whole buncha new clothes, mainly because there was nuthin' in my closet in between suits and Levi's... me bein' the sort that would NEVER do "Dockers." But then we did. And sport shirts instead of tee shirts. All that crap.
It got worse, too. About a year later EDS went to an all-corporate-casual dress code so WE went back to The Men's Wearhouse (and similar places) to acquire a new wardrobe. It ain't cheap to dress casual, lemmee tell ya. I was also stuck with about seven or eight suits hangin' in the closet, none of which would see more than one or two wearings for the remainder of my civilian career.
That said, we (a) saved back a couple o' suits when we retired... one dark, one light (for weddings, funerals, and other formal events) and (b) took one of those suits to the cleaners today. It's been hanging in my closet since this occasion:
That would be SN1's commissioning ceremony in May, 2000 which, coincidentally, was also the last time I wore that particular suit. So, yeah... it needed to go to the cleaners. I have a wedding to attend in March and we DO want to look our best. Or a reasonable facsimile thereof.
Heh. That's pretty good as well as bein' pretty much the ONLY hockey you'll see on ESPN.
But while we're on about "Casual Friday..." I used to HATE that day, coz "casual" really isn't; the day should be called "Corporate Casual Friday." When EDS broke down and authorized a Casual Friday I had to go out and buy a whole buncha new clothes, mainly because there was nuthin' in my closet in between suits and Levi's... me bein' the sort that would NEVER do "Dockers." But then we did. And sport shirts instead of tee shirts. All that crap.
It got worse, too. About a year later EDS went to an all-corporate-casual dress code so WE went back to The Men's Wearhouse (and similar places) to acquire a new wardrobe. It ain't cheap to dress casual, lemmee tell ya. I was also stuck with about seven or eight suits hangin' in the closet, none of which would see more than one or two wearings for the remainder of my civilian career.
That said, we (a) saved back a couple o' suits when we retired... one dark, one light (for weddings, funerals, and other formal events) and (b) took one of those suits to the cleaners today. It's been hanging in my closet since this occasion:
That would be SN1's commissioning ceremony in May, 2000 which, coincidentally, was also the last time I wore that particular suit. So, yeah... it needed to go to the cleaners. I have a wedding to attend in March and we DO want to look our best. Or a reasonable facsimile thereof.
That's EXACTLY my take on "casual Friday." Just like you, in the '90s I had grown-up clothes for the first time, and actually kinda got into nice suits, English shoes, cotton shirts and silk ties. To my surprise, I dug it and got good at it, too.
ReplyDeleteAnd the rest of the time I wore blue jeans and boat shoes and shorts and Hawaiian shirts.
I really enjoyed playing "dress-up," strange as that sounds. True story: there was a long, floor-to-ceiling glass enclosed bridge between the parking garage and the office building I worked in at my first civilian job after I retired from the AF. This bridge passed over a four-lane street, so it took about a minute and a half to walk the length of the ting at a pretty fast clip. Seein' as how I was an "early guy," it would usually be dark when I was on my in from the garage... and I would be alone. I always used to look at my reflection in that glass every morning and think "Is this REALLY me? I look pretty damned good, I do!"
DeleteSo, yeah... I relate.
On the same Casual Friday "cost of clothing" theme, I remember, Lord, almost 30 yrs ago, sitting in my young son's Drs office waiting--waiting-waiting- and reading a NYT Sunday Mag article pointing out the fact that "these days you have to be rich just so you can dress your kids well enough to look middle-class." LOL! (And SO true!)
ReplyDeleteAnd nowadays kids walk around with half their ass showing and their fucking baseball caps on backwards.
DeleteWhen Toby got his first job in downtown Dallas working for a big oil company, he had to have several suits. He hated it. We kept those suits for a long time, but he has never needed them again (he does own a nice suit for special occasions). Probably everyone of those old suits had baby puke on the shoulder where Jesse or Bo christened him before work every morning. Now He has to wear what he calls "girl britches" to work. And I have to iron them.
ReplyDeleteSN1 "christened" a few o' my suits, as well. That was cause for much angst on my part... do I change, or do I just wipe it off? I usually opted for the "wipe it off" option.
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