Am I the only one who has no idea what to buy his family for Christmas this year? My older kids are married or in settled relationships, working at well paying jobs, and getting pretty settled. In other words, whatever they want they go out and buy for themselves. The two youngest need everything. For them I could blindfold myself, throw a dart into a Target Store and as long as I missed the kids and women's departments I would have a winner.
The indecision created by to many choices isn't much better than the total lack of choices. The one thing I know is that I can't buy clothes for anybody else. Buying clothes is almost as difficult as ordering for someone else in a restaurant.
Thank God men don't wear ties anymore. It was the default gift for any man over the age of twenty five. Usually, they were, let's just say, not to the taste of the recipient. The tie was usually somebodies idea of getting the guy to free up his spirit and show some color. While they were at it they decided to show all of the colors on one tie.
Women's idea's of what men should wear is an interesting thing to study. My observations and experience is that opposites attract and no where does it express itself better than a women picking out clothes for her man. Now one fact we know and have to face up front. Women dress for other women no matter what phase of the mating cycle they are in. To women clothes are the costume phase of their life drama
Men dress to express their belief in what they are. Guys that live in jeans are guys that regardless of what they do for a living think of themselves as one of the guys who are men's men. They are not "Dockers" guys. Dockers guys believe they are socially and intellectually in a different league. Than there are the guys who wear Lauren and Polo. Well, we know what they think of themselves
It seems to me that way to often women are trying to get a man to dress to satisfy their image of what he should be. Let's look at it as costuming him as the right co-star in her life drama. In the recently popular "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" the make over was most often inspired by the need to impress some women in the guy's life. While I always was amazed and delighted by what they could do to redecorate the guy's apartment, what they did to his wardrobe was scary.
Make-overs for men always include duding him up in almost the opposite style as he was wearing. While the guy would good naturedly accept the new style and the gal would gush over the "New Look", you could tell he would be back in his sweats before the TV lights cooled.
Yes, I know men can be pigs. I do not condone slovenly behavior. But let's face it, a guy who showers, shaves and blows his nose into tissue is fit to live with some woman. I guy who wears a thousand dollar suit and cheats on his mate isn't a bargain no matter how he's wrapped.
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