Style over fashion...

It's funny the tangents i find myself pursuing whenever i sit still...takin a crap, washing clothes, a lapdance...the latest such zoning out happened as i sat down to do away with a humongous (dumbass word) pile of laundry. I couldn't help taking special care with my one pink shirt...yes, pink...white folks would probably say i'm metrosexual...especially when you consider the rest of my wardrobe...hugo boss, rl, nautica, zegna etc. i only mention this to make my point.

anyways, where i did drift to was my seeming unique view of fashion just a mere 12 years ago. I recalled one Emancipation Day (Aug. 1) dressing in cowshit-green, baggy rayon pants and a shirt that was unwillingly white...with red stripes... but that wasnt the kicker (no pun intended)...at that time these military-type boots were the craze. i so badly wanted one. luckily for me my dad was in the army (wait for it) so i borrowed his army issued...glossed like a sapodilla seed licked clean of all flesh. so shiny it looked wet. I stepped forth in the multitudes, dressed to death(!?), feelin like i was the shit. no matter that the boots were size 11s and i wore 7s. not even that the shirt had long given up any pretenses of decency. i was the shit that day!!! it was as i sat scrubbing them dirty drawz (what an earthy image) that i realised why my friends all seemed to have plans that ran counter to mine. no one wanted to lime in the park which is usually the place to be that day. even on the sea walls was out. another very public place. ahhhh...the bliss of ignorance. To this day i cant see a cow without remembering that pants. My teenage years are replete with examples of such sartorial misadventures. Another being my predilection at that time for big pants. i would buy jeans with waists as big as 38...a dozen years and a burgeoning potbelly later i can still fit into a 34. (my long lost girlfreind says i look rosy...is that a good thing?) My unique fashion sense of yesteryear can keep me here for the rest of the day so i think i'm going to put an end this. Does seem somewhat masochistic.

I love that pink shirt.