17dec14wed Richard's Wear

 The back of the suit jacket below--nicely asymmetric.  Notice in this genre, circa 1995, I am choosing obi patches that blend into background fabric colors and textures.  The previous "clown" generation did the opposite, orange on gray, orange on blue, green on yellow--too much emphasis on patches already rather visible.   As age wears down my spirit, and decrements my body, an organ here, a sense there--and as humankind, day by day, more and more, disappoints (isn't there some OTHER sort of monkey we all could live among?)--the energy for large scale errors decreases.    The nice thing about young designer competitors is even when they latch onto a good idea, they pursue it so hard and far and fast that it is ugly by the time it reaches public display.   That is why jujitsu was invented.  

 I rather like this front photo--the nagare shapes of the patches and their placement works well with the vertical stripes of the unusual gold-green background stretch fabric.  This is terribly comfortable to weak and because of the stretch background fabric, never needs ironing.   It is an understated way to humiliate every 7000+$ Italian suit in the room---a really fun phenomena, at the expense of monkeys who lack the taste to design things worth seeing and depend on piles of money paid to others to package themselves for "looking as important as I really am"--hear! hear! let us all encourage the little monkeys on their struggles to the top of each tree!

 This is my usual green jacket, that flows two obis together diagonally on one side and vertically on the other, and on the back in a wave pattern that is too symmetrical (so the latter not re-shown here).  

If you maximize the display size of the photo at right you can see the lovely flow patterning and mix of greenish-gold-ish colors that match, with a touch of greater lightness and brightness the green-gold mix of the suit this shirt is under.   

This was not planned--if you have 600 suits and 200 kimono shirts, you can nearly always find whatever mix and match appeals to you at the moment.   

Again, for monkey gaming, this shirt in a room full of expensive cheap-looking white men's dress shirts, makes their inferior factory-made materials shameful indeed.   I am building muscles to improve the shape the shirt is shaped over, but it may take 50 to 70 kilograms more per the 22 set types I do, before a really pleasing overall picture results.  

The important thing about fashion is this--in a pure 100% sense--its power shines and works without effort as you go about your day.  At every bus-stop, restaurant table, sidewalk, meeting, hallway stretch--everyone around, whether they know you or like you or not, have their eyes drawn by the designs themselves.   Research shows how this is layered in 300 millisecond layers---what IS that, wow the shine of light from it, wow the pattern as I draw near, wow the ease and normalcy with which he wears and wields it.   That is Mystery, Sparkle, Pattern, Otherness in succession.   Try doing that with a dark, Calvinist $7000 Italian suit---it turns out to repeat what every other insecure top monkey buys buys buys---they ALL lack the guts and brains to design what works better than European snobbery encumbered dark, hardly visible, drapings.  YUK.    Some monkeys get near the top of their tree and do not dare go down and visit other trees.