I think myself I would say someone like Indians Jones or James Bond is who I would say if I was having a bit of a fantasy going on. Jones for the adventure and skills he brought for finding shit. Bond for the style and abilities to complete missions in the most heinous situations.
It’s funny - I smoked a Cuban years ago, my friend got them when he was in Afghanistan. It wasn’t all it was cracked up to be lol but I do have the tube still! I’ll have to dig it out and take a picture, white with a red cap on it. It’s a cool memento.
But we DO dress up, all the time, even without realizing that we're donning costumes, don't we? Even the ubiquitous blue jeans used to be a way (at least for my parents' generation) to take on a working-class look, even if they themselves happened to be university students studying for a white-collar job.
As for me, I also love wearing a cream colored linen suit sometimes, just for having an espresso in a street café while folding through a large newspaper (printed on actual paper, the old school way). And I have to admit, a nice big cigar would complete the picture, except for its horrible taste, which I never managed to acquire for myself.
Thinking back to my early 20s, I also enjoyed cultivating a "communist agitator from a century ago" - look, consisting of a pointy goatee, small round glasses, and a red beret, along with a woolen trench coat. Perhaps as a counterweight to this radical look, I also adopted the hairstyle of a WWII soldier (from EITHER side, doesn't matter) a few years later. That went surprisingly well with the aforementioned linen suit or even the blue jeans.
Working in the education field, I knew that I would not get around the stereotypical and self-caricaturizing tweed jacket with elbow patches. By the time I arrived at that particular piece of clothing, I was very aware of my affinity for playing dress-up. It's not the same as putting on a pirate costume for a Halloween party. I never thought about it as either feminine or masculine, though I do realize that women tend to practice this more, and thus are typically more skilled at it. Thank you for this post that got me thinking about my own ways of dressing up.
I think myself I would say someone like Indians Jones or James Bond is who I would say if I was having a bit of a fantasy going on. Jones for the adventure and skills he brought for finding shit. Bond for the style and abilities to complete missions in the most heinous situations.
It’s funny - I smoked a Cuban years ago, my friend got them when he was in Afghanistan. It wasn’t all it was cracked up to be lol but I do have the tube still! I’ll have to dig it out and take a picture, white with a red cap on it. It’s a cool memento.
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But we DO dress up, all the time, even without realizing that we're donning costumes, don't we? Even the ubiquitous blue jeans used to be a way (at least for my parents' generation) to take on a working-class look, even if they themselves happened to be university students studying for a white-collar job.
As for me, I also love wearing a cream colored linen suit sometimes, just for having an espresso in a street café while folding through a large newspaper (printed on actual paper, the old school way). And I have to admit, a nice big cigar would complete the picture, except for its horrible taste, which I never managed to acquire for myself.
Thinking back to my early 20s, I also enjoyed cultivating a "communist agitator from a century ago" - look, consisting of a pointy goatee, small round glasses, and a red beret, along with a woolen trench coat. Perhaps as a counterweight to this radical look, I also adopted the hairstyle of a WWII soldier (from EITHER side, doesn't matter) a few years later. That went surprisingly well with the aforementioned linen suit or even the blue jeans.
Working in the education field, I knew that I would not get around the stereotypical and self-caricaturizing tweed jacket with elbow patches. By the time I arrived at that particular piece of clothing, I was very aware of my affinity for playing dress-up. It's not the same as putting on a pirate costume for a Halloween party. I never thought about it as either feminine or masculine, though I do realize that women tend to practice this more, and thus are typically more skilled at it. Thank you for this post that got me thinking about my own ways of dressing up.
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I've always dreamed of having an awesome leather top hat like this one:
This one is from bladehats.com