{"id":27439,"date":"2021-01-03T13:46:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T19:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27439"},"modified":"2021-01-03T13:46:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T19:46:10","slug":"a-fashion-plate-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/03\/a-fashion-plate-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fashion Plate, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So today, I wore a suit to church because it was a little cooler, and the suit jacket would be a little warmer just in case I spun the car out on some hidden ice on the way.<\/p>\n<p>As it happened, I did not; and I remembered why I don&#8217;t like to wear the suit(s) to church.  When I got them a couple years back, the people at the suit shop tailored them to fit rather tightly (and the weight I&#8217;ve gained, I have recently regained in the shoulders which make the vest tight across the back, than you very much).  Which makes it difficult to carry my usual assortment of just-in-case items (flashlight, lighter, multi-tool, slimmed down key set with <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/16\/a-four-hundred-dollar-millimeter-of-plastic-averted\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">bespoke fob<\/a>) plus notepad, pen, small phone, and <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/25\/wallets-a-personal-evolution\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">trifold wallet<\/a>.  I mean, I generally have to get carpenters&#8217; jeans or extra waist inches just to fit my fat thighs into them, but I have really have come to appreciate the extra pocket space as well.<\/p>\n<p>And in the first years of the Current Unpleasantness, I&#8217;ve had to carry a disposable face mask.<\/p>\n<p>Which I wore this morning as a modern pocket square.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/pocketsquare2021.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just the thing for the virtue-signaling fashion-forward gentleman in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Except me.  I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll be in this suit until the next funeral.  Which is hopefully not in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today, I wore a suit to church because it was a little cooler, and the suit jacket would be a little warmer just in case I spun the car out on some hidden ice on the way. As it happened, I did not; and I remembered why I don&#8217;t like to wear the suit(s) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27440,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27439\/revisions\/27440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}