This isn’t a real post.
Well, it kinda is. But it kinda isn’t.
Actually, this is a photo follow-up to one of the final posts on my now abandoned MySpace blog. I have the photos on Facebook, not on MySpace, but some of my MySpace friends still refuse to go FB. So this is mainly for them.
If you’re not them, it’s okay; it’s for you, too.
(I would’ve imported the 100+ posts from that rusty old MySpace blog here, but apparently you can’t do that. I am, however, thinking about bringing over [ie: copying and pasting in] some of my MySpace Classics from time to time, but I’m not sure yet…)
First, for those who never saw the original post, I’ve taken the liberty of providing its contents here. The photo follow-up afterward…
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Snap, crackle, pop!
Category: Fashion, Style, Shopping
Yo, so check it out…
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m not really Mr. Fashion or anything like that. You know I’m usually rockin’ some cargo pants and maybe like a button-up Dickies work shirt or something like that.
Sometimes I think if I really wanted to, I could dress pretty pimptastically. Usually my goal, though, is just not to look like a slob or completely unpresentable. Plus, it can be pretty expensive to dress nice, and spending a ton of money on clothes ain’t my thing.
But a stroll through JC Penney last weekend made me realize what could be:

Behold: The White Linen Suit!
Awwww yeeeeeeee-uhhh! A white linen suit, son! Complete with with the drawstring pants — no beltloops! I know the picture’s not that great, but trust me — it was a sight to behold. Okay, maybe not. But it looked awesomely zany enough for me.
If I had money to burn, you better believe I woulda walked out the store wearing that, although probably with a different color shirt. And don’t think I didn’t go find a pair of gold-rimmed, white-tinted sunglasses that would’ve completely taken it over the top.
Even on sale — the suit, a shirt, the sunglasses, and some of those woven loafer shoes (which I was told was what would go with it) — I thought it was a little steep. All totaled, my phone calculator told me it came out to about $175 before tax. I don’t know if that’s a lot or not; however, it was certainly too much for me to spend on a suit I thought was awesome, but would probably wear like once or twice ever.
Seriously, when am I gonna wear a white linen suit?
It’s not like I go to the club or anything; girls would probably laugh me out of the place if I came in like that anyway. And it probably wouldn’t be wise to stroll into a job interview lookin’ like I came straight from the 35th Annual Conference of South American Drug Lords.
Someday maybe I’ll have a reason to go buy me a white linen suit. Right now, though, I can’t think of any.
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BRILLIANT! I guess it kind of depends what sort of job you’re interviewing for.
Posted by Lu on Mar 13, 2008 10:35 AM
$175 is a bit much. Adam got a suit for $95 recently at Penny’s on clearance. Actually, sales at Penny’s are not really sales. They always have a sale. You gotta look for the clearance. If you wait about 3 or 4 months, I almost guarantee you that suit will be ready for you to purchase it at a much lower price.
Posted by Brittany on Mar 14, 2008 10:47 AM
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Now the photo follow-up I promised: I went back to JC Penney just over a month later and happened to find the suit still on display (presumably because it’s so lame awesome no one but myself has any interest in it…).
So what did I do?
No, I didn’t buy it.
But — laugh if you will – you can best believe I tried that motherlover on, and — naturally – I got some photos to document the occasion:

Josh, the White Linen Suit, and brown sunglasses...

Josh, the White Linen Suit, and gold-rimmed sunglasses...

One last quick shot in the dressing room...
The photo-op was pretty spur-of-the-moment. If I’d have known I was gonna end up at JC Penney again, and had I known the suit was still there, I’d have done things a little differently:
- I’d have brought a real camera
- I’d have shaved off the facial scruff
- I’d have posed facing the opposite angle so you couldn’t see the price stickers on the sunglasses
- I wouldn’t have worn the black shirt underneath or my trademark black socks
In any case, if they’d have had the items featured in these pictures in a smaller size and for less cost (even though the price was down slightly from the first time I was there), I might have been tempted to buy them.
And that, of course, would have immediately increased my level of pimptasticness at least threefold.
