Jrex's sister married an older guy who'd been divorced. His son from his first marriage is in his 20's. And he's a fashion designer. And his Fashion Week spring show is that Monday.
Which means, the grand finale of our week with the family will be an outing to The City. For Fashion Week! How cool is that?! Maybe I'll see Metro Dad!
The dilemma is: what to wear!? I've got the nice black dress for the funeral. Jrex has his suit. We're fine there, it's just what to wear for Fashion Week?!! Yikes. I have a cool top I can wear, I just need to get very hip capri length jeans or leggings. I think I have shoes that can work. Jrex though...
Last night he got into the brainstorm about clothes. We figured we could sandpaper his rattiest jeans and make them stylishly shredded. He's got one 'cool' tshirt from The Brewer's Art back in Baltimore (stolen from me, but I'm only a little bitter). If he wears all that with a suit jacket and his Yankees baseball hat, I think he'll fit right in! The remaining flaw is the shoes.
I found him a pair of sneakers that I'm trying to convince him are totally in for men, but he thinks they're a bit weird.
The picture below isn't the exact shoe, but it's a similar idea. I need other people to tell him that this style shoe is what hip guys really are wearing these days. It's not just me being artsy.
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I think the shoes are cool :).
Have a great time at fashion week! I hope you see Metro Dad. That would be awesome.
A little fun to offset the sadness - the world is in balance :). Please try to make it to one of the Korean restaurants here if you can!
Those shoes look like something both of my brothers would end up getting and pulling off with their uniquely cool sense of style. Of course, my husband would have to be tied up, gagged, drugged, and otherwise incapacitated for me to get him out of his wool socks, tattered approach shoes, and the usual hiking pants and fleece or flannel he likes to wear. I love my husband for everything but his sense of fashion. And I'll never be able to change him. I sort of envy you for even getting to have a talk with JRex about fashion. It sounds like he's a little more willing to be a little GQ on occasion. Tell him that the shoes are cool. And at least you aren't asking him to get a man-manicure.
oh yeah, all the cool dudes are working those.
=p
Bowling shoes are cool. Nothing that is cool is ever called "hip". Also nothing involving the word "capri" can be called cool unless you're talking about the island.
Wear knee length boots in black or brown, skinny jeans tucked in and an awesome top or a dress from the designer whose show you're going to see.
wear 'em, jrex. all the guys are doin it.
jp
I'd trust Sam. Whoever he is.
Sam is an amazing New Yorker, who happens to be a woman... Thanks, Sam. I've got the boots and the jeans so I'm good to go.
Super Cool Jrex, you'll fit right in!
-lil'sis
Great new banner.
Re Jrex' shoes. If he wears bowling shoes for the show, will he ever wear them again? If not, then it seems an expensive vanity.
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