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Youngest had a party.
A party which required a suit.
I don't like little boys in suits - they tend to look just like little men, in suits.
For as long as I could, as long as I was able, I got away with short pants, trousers and a band-collared shirt, trousers and a sweater...
When Oldest finally needed a jacket for his Coming Of Age service (13) I bought him one at the thrift shop. Looking back, it sort of looked thrifted, which wasn't good when everyone else had been to the Little Man Shoppe and purchased a three piece, um, suit, but I knew he would only wear it that one day.
Middle got all the way to his first high school concert without a jacket and then I thrifted that one too - but it looked better.
But now Youngest was going to this party and there was just no way to avoid it.
The thing to have done would have been to march into a place like Ralph Lauren. But I just couldn't bear it.
We went to a big department store.
And it turned out that size 12 swims on him and size 10 fits him pretty well (the waist is too big and the jacket is too perfect). I could never justify spending Ralph's kind of money on something that would have to be replaced in a year.
He looked damn fine.
His dress shoes are from Payless. I wanted leather ones but he's a men's size 6 which is pretty tough to find.
The party was in a neighborhood where people walk their horses.
K wondered if the guy walking the horse carries a plastic bag with him.
There are some new houses going up over there too -
Very subtle architecture, wouldn't you say?
Youngest went off to the party.
He called a few hours later and said he couldn't stay for two more hours and asked to be picked up.
He arrived at the car with a monogrammed sweatshirt, two pairs of sunglasses, a large teddy bear and a handful of candy.
There were TWO chocolate fountains and a cotton candy machine.
He took a two hour nap.
A party which required a suit.
I don't like little boys in suits - they tend to look just like little men, in suits.
For as long as I could, as long as I was able, I got away with short pants, trousers and a band-collared shirt, trousers and a sweater...
When Oldest finally needed a jacket for his Coming Of Age service (13) I bought him one at the thrift shop. Looking back, it sort of looked thrifted, which wasn't good when everyone else had been to the Little Man Shoppe and purchased a three piece, um, suit, but I knew he would only wear it that one day.
Middle got all the way to his first high school concert without a jacket and then I thrifted that one too - but it looked better.
But now Youngest was going to this party and there was just no way to avoid it.
The thing to have done would have been to march into a place like Ralph Lauren. But I just couldn't bear it.
We went to a big department store.
And it turned out that size 12 swims on him and size 10 fits him pretty well (the waist is too big and the jacket is too perfect). I could never justify spending Ralph's kind of money on something that would have to be replaced in a year.
He looked damn fine.
His dress shoes are from Payless. I wanted leather ones but he's a men's size 6 which is pretty tough to find.
The party was in a neighborhood where people walk their horses.
K wondered if the guy walking the horse carries a plastic bag with him.
There are some new houses going up over there too -
Very subtle architecture, wouldn't you say?
Youngest went off to the party.
He called a few hours later and said he couldn't stay for two more hours and asked to be picked up.
He arrived at the car with a monogrammed sweatshirt, two pairs of sunglasses, a large teddy bear and a handful of candy.
There were TWO chocolate fountains and a cotton candy machine.
He took a two hour nap.
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But he looks nice...and I like the tie. Did he have to wear a tie too?
Now he wants to go with me next time I get a suit made and get one his own bad self.
This stuff's genetic*.
-J.
* My grandfather was a tailor and therefore guess who made me my 1st custom suit at age 9?
But I'd take one if someone gave it to me.
And the party. Wow. Did youngest take a gift?
And I want to live in a house like that, well... only if I don't have to clean it ;)
youngest (who is 12!) went to a party, held in a manor, wore a suit AND came back with gifts...
Speechless.
'Cause I think I might know where youngest was!!
does youngest not have access to a camera phone? i'm thinking he should - at least for occasions like this.
They didn't send the helicopter to pick up youngest?
I like him all the more that he just wanted to come home.
And then napped.
I can't imagine a 12 year old having much fun at a party in a suit! I think they need to still be in horsing-around-wear, but I guess I stand corrected.
Did the invite say "Suit & Tie"?! I cannot imagine it!
Oh, and yes; he looks VERY nice!
It is nearly impossible to find larger than a 5 for boys or the smaller men's shoes. Who wants to splend that kind of money on something they will outgrow so fast?
It took for ever to find my 11 yr old some snoboots that he liked, kid's 7 were too small to allow for wool socks. The men's were mostly way too heavy and proprtioned for an adult.
We did find a Bass men's 7 to get by with. After all that work it almost seems like Chicago will have no snow this year!
Your dude is in a 10? I would have though he was a size 12 from the Tees he runs around in. It's even a amzing that for kids, when getting something fitted size can surprise you.
oh oh too long but the other kids shoe thing driving me crazy is the stores like Sears that don't carry kid's half sizes cause "it's not worth it."
He had to wear a suit for THAT? What on earth was the occasion?
ACK!
My boys, now 17 and almost 22, have never had suits, let alone a new suit. Goodwill, Salvation Army, and the back of Dad's closet where the used-to-fit-20-years-and-many-pounds-ago suits live -- these have clothed them for the few occasions when they absolutely positively had to dress up. We apparently do not move in the circles to which Youngest was invited. For this I thank the heavens.
i mean, what else is he going to do, he's youngest and doesn't have a license, but it just sounds so good.
There were times I thought This Old House was just a gross manufactured myth to convince the world you guys really were worthy of being a superpower simply through the ability to have eleventygagillion metres of cabling and home theatre rooms on every floor not to mention the dumbwaiter.
Those photos have dispelled that myth.
So yeah, what Badger said.
Julia doesn't know that we live in TUVALU.
Like I have said to my husband a million times before...I cannot wait to talk to God about all this!!