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I saw a really nice suit for my wedding day, light grey, blue, fine stripes - my best man seemed less than impressed, but he is famously more interested in those things that he has suggested - like a suit that is similar in someways, but that I didn't like as much. How can I be sure that he isn't suggesting a suit that he thinks he'll look better in so that he has a new suit to use at another date, or that he is offering advice I should listen to, in order to make me look the business on the day? - Another Fallen Soldier
Shit, man, you can't trust anybody. I'm going to cut to the chase here. I think you're not worried so much about your pal, but are insecure about your taste in monkeysuits.
The disturbing thing about your wedding suit is that its image will occupy a central place on your mother's dresser for the rest of her life. So you want it to be something classy, but also something that ages well. First of all, I would not wear a tuxedo. I don't know if you were planning to get a tux*, AFS, but I advise against it. Tuxedos look kind of dumb to me. What you should do is, buy up a bunch of recent back issues of some high end men's fashion magazines, like GQ. Or even, it might be interest to get old issues, too, to see what elements are reasonably "timeless". But really take a considered look at what it means to be a well-dressed man, not just a presentable groom. It will be a much sexier sort of affair, pictures of which your childrens' prom dates will swoon over, if you don't look like a waiter or something. And, you know, there's really no reason your whole wedding party has to dress alike. What are you, the Commodores? Let your best man wear the suit he likes.
But, AFS, I feel like I have to say this: Are you really sure, for the love of Mike, that you want to participate in this medieval property rite? How will we ever shatter the bonds of patriarchy if our young people keep getting married?
*I have just remembered a character I invented when I was about ten years old who was a sort of an undead psycho called Tux who wore a tux with all these spikes coming through it. Ha ha ha! Oh, man, embarrassing. |
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