Sometimes you put the jean jacket and the desert boots away and you dress like a bona fide grown up. Maybe even like an old man. This was one of those times. For no particular reason, of course. Just ’cause.

I’m fond of the notion that one should never have to feel like one should apologize for, as people say, “dressing up”. Dressing up by Downton Abbey standards, of course, meant putting on white tie, not a gray chambray like this one with a pale green button-down oxford and a herringbone tweed. And khakis–how casual! Loafers?? (Oak Street Bootmakers loafers, in this instance. Boy do I love these shoes.)

But in our day and age, this sort of rig is really pushing it. I went into the bank to get some cash and received the “sir” treatment from every teller with which I made eye contact. I like this, I’ll admit. They probably all laughed at me upon my exit, but hey–I made off with cash and at least the lip service of respect. I’ll take what I can get.

We’ve done a few gray chambrays already in 2012, but this is a new fabric, and hence a new bow. Get this very bow tie, in all its diamond-pointed glory, along with a heap of “yes, sirs”, at a slight discount here.

Cordially,

Andy