real quick like
One show that I have been following regularly on television is Mad Men. I'll have to admit that watching the show makes me feel strange about the general frumpiness of attire I, and pretty much everyone I work with wears at work. I work at a marketing company in Manhattan -- the difference between my place of work and the Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency (besides the booze, cigarettes, and secretaries, of course) is that I exist in 2008 and they existed in 1962.
Now, don't get me wrong, I like the fact that I can wear, within reason, whatever I want to wear to work every day. Today, it was jeans and a t-shirt, and it was great. But, there seems to be something romantic and interesting about wearing a suit to the office, about the formality of it -- somehow, wearing a suit makes it okay to sit around musing about nothing and drinking bourbon all day -- that's the real fantasy. Perhaps it would be a drag to wear a suit every day -- suspenders, wing-tips, fedoras, ties -- not to mention the fact that I'd have to spend thousands of dollars (money I don't have, money I spend on rent because New York is ridiculous,) buying all of these things, but I do think it might make me feel more like an adult if I dressed the part. But then again, don't people move to New York to stay young?
Or maybe, just maybe, I'm falling for the persona of the show.
Now, don't get me wrong, I like the fact that I can wear, within reason, whatever I want to wear to work every day. Today, it was jeans and a t-shirt, and it was great. But, there seems to be something romantic and interesting about wearing a suit to the office, about the formality of it -- somehow, wearing a suit makes it okay to sit around musing about nothing and drinking bourbon all day -- that's the real fantasy. Perhaps it would be a drag to wear a suit every day -- suspenders, wing-tips, fedoras, ties -- not to mention the fact that I'd have to spend thousands of dollars (money I don't have, money I spend on rent because New York is ridiculous,) buying all of these things, but I do think it might make me feel more like an adult if I dressed the part. But then again, don't people move to New York to stay young?
Or maybe, just maybe, I'm falling for the persona of the show.