Pragmatic Foppery

[jauntyfellah]

So, as much as I enjoy frolicking about in my finest finery, I must accept the fact that I live in the Hellishly Hot State of South Carolina. As such, during the blistering months of Summer, I spend most of my days out in carefully cultivated wardrobe, the staples of which are Hawaiin shirts and straw hats. I call it the "High Tourist" look. I

Comments

[adaptor]

It is acceptable practice if you're doing it for the protection of the clothes. Sweating in them too much would mean washing them more, which would mean exposing the fabrics to the rough and tumble-dry world of mondern laundry.

I'm sure you launder them in the modern style anyway, but if you can legitimately limit how much abuse they take, so much the better!

[bricology]

It's not cheating at all.

I normally wouldn't wear a floor-length polar bear fur coat over a double-breasted vest of live cats, but this IS summer in San Francisco.

[tennosei]

my good person, i believe it to be cheating only if you think it to be cheating. after all, as long as you retain your sense of propriety and foppery, i hardly think you can be blamed for attempting to bend to the weather's horrid inclinations, particularly with worldwide temperatures rapidly rising over the years.

[french75]

Are your Hawaiians made to measure or off the rack?

;-)

Col. Shuttlecock

[jauntyfellah]

Something about the concept of a tailor-made Hawaiin shirt nauseates me!

[french75]

Then my work here is done.

Col. S.

[chronographia]

There is always the 'High Safari' look, consisting of khakis, a pith helmet, mosquito netting, with a group of spear-wielding aboriginal peoples to complete the effect.

Unfortunately this look has been abused so much by that Steve Irwin man, that you may be asked to wrestle crocodiles. And I am sure that it is much less festive than your original choice in clothing.