Reply To: JCCC2: The encouragement of Formal Night(s)
Because, somehow, mysteriously, all my suits shrunk while hanging in their garment bags in my closet over the last year or two, as well as the necks of all my dress shirts, I convinced the folks that Christmas should be Men’s Wearhouse gift cards.
Long story short, I hit their 2-for-1 sale and now have (or will have once I pick them up post-alteration) 2 new suits, a couple shirts, a couple ties, and a couple pair of slacks for the less-formal nights.
Ouch.
Mind you, it wound up “only” running me <$900 out of pocket, but ouch.
Ah, well, I needed them anyway. And once I drop another 40-50 lbs or so, I should be able to have these altered to compensate.
(Today’s healthy eating lesson: when you are working 12+ hour days, 7 days a week, in order to fix a rather nasty environmental disaster then catch up with all the other stuff that got shoved aside while you were doing that, and pretty much eating whatever’s brought in to feed the office/shop crew, you will likely as not gain weight because you’re too damn tired to do anything other than collapse once you get home. Yep, one of the casualties of the Macondo blowout was my waistline.)