November 27, 2005

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By Request, #5: My Father's Amazing Sense Of Fashion

Amanda Lucas requested that I post about my father's yearning for comfort and the amazing sense of style that it caused. You see, my father hates the feel of t-shirt collars. He says he doesn't like the way crew collars hug around his neck. He feels like he is being choked when he wears them.

He wears a button-up collared shirt and tie to work each day, and everwhere else he wears blended-fabric collared sport shirts (to my generation, these fall under the blanket term "polo shirt"). But sometimes, if he is working on a particularly dirty task in the garage or the yard, he will find cause to wear one of the t-shirts he has received through the years. Let me emphasize that he will not purchase a t-shirt, but occasionally is given one.

But even if my dad must wear a t-shirt, he won't wear it without modifying its crew collar. How does he modify the collar? In the crudest, most trashy, most embarassing way possible. He simply tears out the collar and makes it into a jagged, gaping v-neck.

Then he wears it around the house all day, and will talk to neighbors while displaying his unique style. Sometimes if, while wearing one of these custom t-shirts in the middle of a dirty task, he realizes that he needs something from Home Depot, Ace Hardware, Discount Auto Parts, or any of the other places at which one purchases things needed for dirty tasks, he will simply wear the t-shirt to the store. Sometimes he expects us to come with him like this.

Should we care? No. Do we? Well, kinda. It's things like this that keep vindicating Zeeshan's accusations that my family are hicks, despite us being so, so far from any possible valid application of that term.

So, thanks Dad, for teaching me style and class.

Posted at November 27, 2005 12:49 AM | Comments (3)

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