"i love the short jackets with the high arm holes."
so i met with alan rouleau couture last night armed with a stack of photos from neil barrett's latest collection of tuxedos, jackets and shirts. john had me try on a the neil barrett jacket (pictured in olive) at louis boston. i loved the fit. it's exactly what i was looking for and trying to describe to john. i love the short jackets with the high arm holes, and the overall tight fit and look. ya i know you're shocked. alan describes it as very mod-looking. he's not a fan of the short jacket because it could looked dated really quick but i've always been a fan of the 60's clothing style. he's going to do something halfway between that and half way between the normal length for my tuxedo jacket. he showed me a bunch of photos from the 20's actually where everything was fitted and slim etc. he's going to try and recreate that look for my tuxedo. he doesn't want to out-right knock off neil's suit. he wants to design a look for me so when i go to a function in a room full of tuxedos, mine will stand out.
i brought photos of some of neil's tuxes. what i didn't like was the way the suit opens after the button exposing the waist and the shirt. we're going to eliminate that. he is really a designer not a tailor. he has tailors that work for him and he designs clothes for his clients.
we talked a lot about what i like and what i don't like in general about clothes and how they "interact" with my body. he asked how i normally like to wear my clothes. he asked if i like to wear my pants at the hip like the diesel jeans i was wearing (pictured below). i got all giddy at the thought of actually having pants that fit me like my diesels did. it was like being on a stylist's shrink sofa. we talked about the parts of my body that were lost in most clothes and the parts that should be highlighted etc. he said, "if you like that fit we can make the tux pants low rise so your butt isn't lost." i hate it when my butt gets lost don't you? hee.
i spent a good 90 minutes with him talking about clothes. i thought to myself i bet john would loved to have been here. i ended up ordering a tuxedo and six shirts. he's going to design a white "buttonless" look for the shirt and we haven't decided whether to go with a small bow tie or a standard bow tie. i have a small neck (which i hate) and he noted. (i knew i wasn't crazy when i'd go off about how i hated my neck and people were like, "your neck is fine you crazy person!")
i also ordered 5 other shirts to please my boss. like i said i'm more comfortable in clothes that fit me, which is why i don't wear collared shirts to work. right now i've sidestepped the dress code with american eagle polo shirts and american apparell soft-collared short sleeved shirts. the whole trip which i put on my tivo mastercard cost me about $2100.00 which isn't bad for a tuxedo and six custom fitted shirts. so much for paying off my debt. but like he noted, it's an investment.
after i met with him i was trying to kill time because marc couldn't go to the gym until 7:30pm so i went tanning. the guy at the parlor i usually go to noted he hadn't seen me in a long time. as it turns out i haven't been in over 2 years. i guess with all the skin cancer business i didn't really feel comfortable in a tanning booth. i'm just beyond white at this point so i had to do something with the exception of going out in the natural sun. tanning booths aren't great but they're safer than the natural sun so i took my chances. i wore my tighty whities and asked him to give me the max because i'm portuguese. lol. oops. i'm a little red today but i look so much healthier and i have a nice white bum. haha.
i didn't take any melatonin last night so i wasn't all that tired and ended up watching like four episodes of the oblongs and a few foster's home for imaginary friends, two of my new favorite shows. haha. jean smart does the voice of the mother on the oblongs and she's always drunk. will farrell does the voice of the dad. this show came out forever ago and i was totally out of the loop. it's so funny. to cover up the his addiction to video games, the 11 year old son asks his dad for quarters because he lost a palimony suit. hee. the humor is just adult but warped. the whole family is freakishly deformed, the dad has no arms or legs, the mother is always trashed and has no hair but wears this fantastic blonde wig, the teenaged sons are conjoined and the youngest daughter has what looks like a penis growing out of her forehead. it's very edward gorey-light. fun fun for all the insomniacs out there.