Sometime in recent months Mary noted that: "people with grey hair shouldn't always be wearing old, faded stuff. We need to look crisp." I will confess that her words have stuck with me a little bit since then and have even haunted me at moments. One of those moments was this morning when I headed out for my normal Saturday morning meeting wearing some shorts that have been in my wardrobe, I'm pretty sure, since the late 80s and were purchased at a vintage store then. They were held up by a brown leather belt I had bought from a hobo (apologies, it still seems like the right word for the guy) on the side of the road heading down to Pittsboro in 1990 for the kingly sum of $1.
No doubt, there's some substance to what she says. But I hate shopping. What am I going to do about this, get in my car and go to the store? Not bloody likely.
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I think the normal move is plucking Dylan Thomas and raging against the dying of the light.
But can I offer Karl Lagerfeld: “Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.”
Well, old clothes aren't always like sweatpants, but sometimes they are. Get some nice cool stuff! If you pick well it's a gift to yourself, an affirmation of having it...
(I write this while wearings sweatpants)
Lagerfeld was in the business of selling stylish clothes so he was talking his book.
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