Fashion Victim, Pt. 1

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Have commenced wardrobe refreshment with a visit to the HSq Gap today. My bank is being mean to me and wouldn't let me spend too much money today (there is a pathetic reason for this I may share some other time) so I bought only a shirt. It's the first patterned shirt I've bought in many a year. Lots of crazy-colorful vertical stripes seem to be the thing on men's shirts right now; I've noticed this around town, and the Gap was pushing them mightily. They were also the cheapest casual shirts there, so I chose up the most demure one I could find. I think it's pretty good.

Still on my list:
(1-2) pair of blue jeans. I haven't owned blue-colored jeans in years and years. Maybe not since college. Maybe not since high school. Any reasons I had for a black-only jeansdrobe are now long forgotten. But I'd really like to wear jeans and a black shirt at the same time and not get shit from strangers about being in all black.

(1-2) more shirts. I also have several perfectly good shirts with dead buttons that I really ought to fix sometime. They are all black. I haven't cared too much about them since most of my pants are black as well, and therefore these shirts have been unwearable. (So long as I insisted on wearing pants.)

(1) nice blazer. The Gap has some promising-looking, light-material black blazers on sale now, but they were all attached to the floor via elastic cords with alligator clips, and this intimidated me, so I let them alone. Will visit the Burlington Coat Factory later.

(200) socks. I still insist on black crew socks. There is no other sock for me. But they are stupidly hard to find... plenty of black dress socks (I may as well strap on some paper towels, thanks), white crew socks (white? fooey) and those weird things that are shaped like shoes but are actually socks (cognitive dissonance is unwelcome in my closet).

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[cramerica.livejournal.com]

Compromise! Gray crew socks. Good for most occasions that don't require corsages.