Clothes. Again with the clothes.

I went out last week & bought clothes from a variety of crummy places. Some of these stores i used to dig, but not so much now. It really truly seems like all my regular clothes buying places have scaled back on what they carry. Example: i was very hard pressed (no pun intended...) to find wrinkle resistant shirts. Those were all the rage a few years back, but they cost a little more. Even the once reliable Mark's Work Wearhouse has truly cut down on their men's business casual selection. I used to go there & find a dozen shirts & pants no problem. I came out of there with one of each mostly because i just wasn't feeling it.

So the long and short of this is that i will be much more rumpled & wrinkled in appearance on a day to day basis. I know, joke away, but it's the truth. Of the 7 shirts that i picked up, only 1 is wrinkle resistant. The others already look like that unused kleenex you find in your pants pocket. Same with the pants - only a couple of pairs are wrinkle free.

Obviously the solution is to iron. Not likely to happen. But hey, at least these new clothes won't be the wrong size.

PS: here was part of my Facebook status the day i went shopping: "I went to Mark's Work Wearhouse (used to be awesome, not so awesome anymore), Old Navy (providing you with the cheapest prices anywhere courtesy of cheap South-Asian labour), Winners (it's the most confusing store in the world, looks like it's stocked by a combination of crack-heads, fengshui school dropouts and absent minded professors) and finally Sears (i buy the Arnold Palmer clothes and not to be ironic, but they put pins in all their shirts still like it was the 1960s & i always get stuck by one). I think i cobbled together enough outfits to get me through the first 1/2 of the year."