Good Housekeeping
Being a guy, I have four shirts and two pair of jeans I wear most of the time. I make sure they get into the wash, and the Ogwife makes sure they get clean.
I also have a wad of dockers, chinos, polo shirts, etc. that I wear on “dress up” days at the office. I don’t like dressing like this, because I invariably destroy the garment, but whatever.
The other day it took me ten minutes to find a pair of black dockers that fit. So last night I decided It Was Time.
I dug through the closet, my dresser, even the laundry hamper, and discarded every single piece of too-large clothing, and there were garbage bags full. I also discovered that I had 185 T-shirts, most of which were WAY too large, or WAY too small. I kept two decorated shirts, (one of Wile E Coyote- I feel like that, sometimes, always running and occasionally finding myself under a rapidly descending anvil) and one from the Big Ass Fan Company. I also kept 12 “plain” shirts.
I tossed out 30 polo shirts, I dislike them, they look like crap, and I feel like a wurst wearing them. SO they’re gone. All the clothes in my closet and dresser, fit me, or will soon. And bags and bags of clothes go to Amvets. Nice to be on the backside of that.
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The “backside” of that?
Is that an obtuse reference to a diminishing derriere?
My derriere has not diminished, nor does it need to. It’s the gut that needs trimming. THe derriere is muscular and well proportioned, and I can still crack english walnuts with it. But, as I’ve often asked before, who would eat them?
Keep the t-shirts for the wife to wear as a nightshirt. There is nothing sexier than a woman in a mans shirt with nothing underneath.
Call me crazy, but I like polo shirts.
On the other hand I find it more and more difficult to button dress shirts as my hands get more and more arthritic. So that may have something to do with it.
And I hate t-shirts. I always preferred to wear something with a collar.
I’m coming gradually to the idea that polo shirts are preferable to t-shirts. They just look more… adult.
Not that I intend to change any time soon, mind.
M
I wear black oxfords almost exclusively. I wear Tshirts when I’m working on a car or mowing.
We have two 10′ BAF’s here at the office. They’re sweet, but they leak grease.
>>I wear black oxfords almost exclusively.
Really? I hadn’t noticed.
GD&R
M
Polos ??? Really ?? Guess what YOU’RE getting for Xmas, Mark.YIPPEE !!
swmbo
Mark, if you don’t mind some logos, I can hook you upo with some polos.
I wear blak dickies to work every day. Have as a maintenance man, supervisor, manager, and engineer. I very much believe that there are management sorts here who see me as more of a maintenance guy because of the clothes and that I wrench when needed. I’d wear a polo to counteract that, regardless of dirt, but they don’t have pockets for the pen, the marker, the phone and the palm.
In talking with a vendor yesterday who I’m friendly with, he said the same thing. If he visits a site with shirt and tie, and gets involved and dirty, he’s a slob. If he dresses like he’s going to be working/assisting, then he’s viewed as a no-brainer by other customers. In his case, I’d probably wear a polo over a tee.
Any thoughts, Og?
What part of “Not that I intend…” is incomprehensible?
But thanks anyway. They might take away my rock-n-roller card.
M
Save the shirts. Cut ’em up. Clean guns, hands, & parts with them.