Hawaii 50

These last twenty years my attire has been casual actually super casual. Getting “dressed up” for a meeting in the office meant wearing socks and wearing jeans that weren’t blue. So here we are getting ready to take our cruise and “The Madge” decided that I needed to update my wardrobe, I insisted that rather than shop at Brooks Brothers or Nordstrom we should go to a relatively inexpensive men’s store. My thoughts are, I am only going to wear whatever I bought a couple of times so why drop big bucks on it. We settled on a store called “Men’s Wearhouse”, upon entering the store I asked the salesman “Where’s the obese section?” My needs were simple a sport coat, a couple of dress shirts, two ties and maybe a casual shirt. After being measured and finding out my old jacket size is now my waist I immediately dropped into a deep state of depression. At this point all I wanted to do is buy a pair of socks and get home to sulk but “The Madge” had other ideas. The salesman asked “Sir what style and color shirt do you want?” “Broadcloth, white with a button down collar” I answered. “I think we have ONE of those”, he said as he began pulling out shirts looking for my white shirt. “What color jacket?” that’s easy “Navy Blue with brass buttons”. Again I get this look, he found one of those tucked way in the back. OK I’m out of here but no; the shopping frenzy was about to begin. “The Madge” seized the moment and asked to see things that were a little more stylish. We left the store with two jackets, eight shirts and nine ties and everything purchased after the initial white shirt and blue blazer has all the patterns, cuts and colors designed for a person that is 30 years of age with a 29 waist.

After this cruise I booked a cruise to Hawaii leaving Los Angeles in March 2011, so the title of this piece is Hawaii 50 which means “Drop 50 lbs for Hawaii”. Have to take a break now and grab an Egg McMuffin.