March 30, 2010

  • Hellllloooooo 1995!

    The other day I bought a pair of brown shoes. Sketchers to be exact, but not the skater type but instead the business casual type. Why is this significant you might ask? Well I've been wearing the same pair of brown shoes since about September of 1999! I'm not exaggerating at all either. I still remember buying them and why I bought them. I used to always wear Nike; in fact, I had no other shoes. But, one time I went to a bar in Chicago and they would not let me in because I was wearing gym shoes. I was with a group of people and them not letting me pretty much meant that nobody else was going to go either. So I realized I had to buy some non gym shoes which is how I wound up with those shoes. On the surface they still looked wearable. There was a hole though in the bottom heal of the shoe that allowed pebbles to always get in and I would on occasion hear them rattling around in there. This went on for at least two years, probably three or maybe even longer. Yet, I never bought new shoes. The way I saw it was that they were still wearable so why buy new shoes? Now don't get me wrong, I did have a black version of those shoes. I realized I needed them to go with my black pants. So I bought those probably 6 or 7 years ago. Still on that pair. They look fine.

    See, I've never been a person too overly focused on fashion. In recent years I have tried to be more aware of what I'm wearing. But, I still don't often buy new clothes. In fact, last summer I bought three new pairs of jeans. It was the first time in 5 years that I had purchased new jeans. My previous jeans were worn out very badly so I figured it was probably time. People were amazed that I had gone so long without buying new jeans but the way I saw it was if they still fit and did not have tons of holes, then why not still wear them. Oh sure, I had lost some weight and they were kinda big on me, but again, its not like they made me look like a vagrant.

    A friend of mine recently told me that somebody he worked with was selling a Chicago Bulls windbreaker for $10 and since he knew I was a big Bulls fan, he thought he would ask me if I wanted it.  It was an XL and I'm a medium, maybe a large at best. But, he showed it to me and I tried it on and it really didn't seem all that big on me. So I bought it. I showed it to a coworker yesterday and he asked me if it was an Apex. I told him yes and he explained that it was a very old jacket as Apex had its apex of popularity right around 1995. I told him that for me, that was still fairly new as I have a Chicago Cubs jacket that I still wear that I got as a Christmas gift when I was a sophomore in high school..................in 1990! It barely still fits. Barely. I should probably stop wearing it, but hey, what can I say, it is not in bad condition and its not like its really tight on me. So its a Starter jacket and that company went out of business over a decade ago, it doesn't mean I shouldn't wear it.

    Its not that I'm cheap. Wait. Actually maybe I'm a little cheap, as I never like to spend money. Its just that I tend not to buy things unless I need them. It also doesn't mean that I've got tons of money from not spending because that's not the case either. After all, I always tip a good amount whenever I eat out or go to a place that requires a tip. And its not like I hate to go shopping or wear new clothes, I mean who doesn't like to look good with what they wear? In fact, I don't know what it is. All I know is that I should probably dress better than what I do. You might want to know what I'm wearing now? Well who the hell said I was wearing anything?

    Oh come on. Don't any of you do any naked blogging?