Reply #46: I started getting that catalog many years ago [View All]

[ForrestGump]

( a legacy from a previous tenant) and it was always an exercise in humor to look at some fo the stuff for sale. Having said that, they've sold some things that I like a lot -- never bought anything from them, but I've always loved the pirate-shirt kinda thing (I like the lace-up collar) and have been sorely tempted to buy one. I've been told that my desire for the swashbuckler shirt is silly and that I'd look like some kinda weirdo if I actually wore it anywhere, but that hasn't stopped me before and I've always prided myself on dressing apart from the mainstream, if not at times downright inappropriately. The lace-up men's shirt seems to me a real '70s thing, proving that it's not just the music that was better back then.

One of these days, that shirt'll be mine...



By the way, I recently met (in the course of my job) two dudes who were both wearing lace-up piratey-style shirts. They were both extremely over-the-top stereotypical gay dudes, but they sure looked sharp (they were also much funnier and vastly more considerate and polite than most of the tourists that I deal with, but that's another story).