Topics from darkoni42 (part one)

[lisefrac]

I hope, in the midst of Festival, we didn't forget that darkoni42 gave me topics! Here are the first four.

Comments

[fractalgeek]

I see my clothes mostly as either functional or costume, the trouble is my standards are too high...

For a weekend game, I'm quite happy to spend $1000 on a costume, carefully tailored and exactly fitted to my character. The trouble is, in day to day use, I feel anything below this level is, by its nature, purely a distress wear, and I just don't care about it. I'd love to wear $2000 suits, but just wearing them out back and forth to the office, naaah - and at that level, I can't afford a wardrobe full of them for 5x weekly use.

There's also the thing that a suit looks best when you are on your feet. Sitting typing at a desk is about the worst way possible to treat on, it just doesn't work. I want to take the jacket off as soon as I arrive at my desk, and then it's a pain to put it back on again to move around. So my day is shirt-sleeved, and I don't really bother for the bit no-one around the office sees, coming in and out.

POUT

[lisefrac]

I hear that. I was talking this over with Matt, and a lot of the clothes that I think look good on men--ties, vests, suits--aren't really day to day wear. Especially if you work as, say, a software engineer (as he does) and not in finance or something.