Richard's WEAR 27NOV2015 Friday

 Not sure but this may be my very first self-designed suit, done about 1984 what at the Univ. of Michigan.  It is NOT really a design at all---just dumb obvious moves.  I had ONLY one idea---stop wearing clothes made out of the world's shittiest quality fabrics (Gap, Saks 5th Avenue, Versachi, etc.).  

So, I chose as background material stretch gold shining material (metallic shine causes itches so the ratio of metallic to stretch etc thread is key to comfort--in this case 1 to 11).  I chose for accent an expensive Japanese uchikake wedding kimono 

 The PARTICULAR wedding kimono that I chose is almost a black background, so at any rate a dark background, which at the time was unusual.   I needed a contrast with the somewhat  too bright gold stretch background fabric.  

The cut of the accent pieces is BORING--lacking all imagination, symmetrical, utterly without merit.  The portions of the suit, however, occupied with the uchikake material are wisely chosen to prevent fraying and rapid wear---uchikakes are of 2 sorts, thick prints that chip off within 2 or 3 days of wearing, or woven fabric of loose large stitch sizes that catch on everything and fray all days long so after a few days of wear you look like a shaggy dog.   

This uchikake is the latter so it is vital that all patches of it are in places not rubbed against anything unmooth.   

The suit is old but since it is stretch and the gold background fabric breathes nicely---it is very comfortable in active wear--you can play baseball with it, tho not football.   

I find that it has POWER for catching eyes and HOLDING eyes long times---not due to the stupid design elements by me as a beginner here, but due simply to the DESIGN OF THE UCHIKAKE fabric large patches of which are made visible here.   There is a visceral Japanese appreciation of their own design traditions and they cannot help themselves liking the patches of uchikake which are quite large and visible here.  

I LIKED THIS SUIT (almost 40 years ago) because I am so sick of men trying to look Calvinist, self important, strutting little monkeys----PARADING HORMONES---yuk, have they no sense?    

There never has been an important man unless you are very sick in a hospital with a competent physician in a nation with a decent elite--like France--where national healthcare works.   

So all other men, trying to LOOK important---come across as hormone drenched buffoons and wear 7000$ BORING UGLY Italian suits--strutting like good Calvinists.  When I enter luxury hotel doors wearing my 30+ year old undesigned bad design suits, of great materials, all the young girls in the entourage of the 7000$ Italian suited strutting executive eye me and break off to meet me--irritating the hormones of the shrunken brain executive in the stupid Italian suit.   God's little justices!!!!