My church has two simultaneous missions departing this week. One is to Mexico to the Tarahumara (Rarámuri) indigenous group in the state of Chihuahua in Northern Mexico. This is one of the most remote groups in North America and a group from our church has gone there for decades, building wells, providing medical needs and ministering to the kids there. https://youtu.be/ZRRNv-kJ6QY?is=wduK9gonZ2g5q6nx Simultaneously we have another group headed to New Mexico to the McCurdy Mission where the Church has also annually sent folks to help for decades. I have several friends, heading here - one couple includes a lady who grew up there on the adjacent reservation. https://www.mccurdy.org/ So for my Wednesday men’s group which includes several guys leaving this week on thes mission trips, I chose to support them with my OOTD Royal Blue MTM blazer Red bandanna silk P square CT red tattersall shirt Hopi silver Bolo Black bead belt Levi’s black button up 501’s Pendleton black w red socks Clarke’s woven Derbies. I also have relatives at my parents 3 miles away who came in from Santa Fe to sit with my step mom recovering from knee surgery. Felt like this would be a good WFH and visit them OOTD as well

Really starting to feel like fall out here. 3/2 roll viscose blend brown blazer CT tattersall shirt Harold Powell tie Peter Millar navy cords Cole Haan oxfords (Thrifted; worn out laces replaced with new sage green colored ones) Momma had a birthday last week and she is wearing a new dress I surprised her with.

Black Fresh Clean Threads Henley shirt over Vertx blue jeans. Had it a while but used to wash the truck today.

Sunday was a busy day for us. It started with Sunday service. Being in the forties, I built a typical fall outfit of a grey merino roll neck, a Harris Tweed jacket I bought in Luxembourg in 2019, grey corduroys, Allen Edmunds Fifth Avenue oxfords and a Donegal tweed cap. Honestly, I tried on several hats before settling on the cap. After service we came home and had lunch, t switched hats to the tam and went to the Shamrock club by myself. Robin needed to be back at the church before rhe meeting ended. The praise band great Robin is part of was giving a concert at 4 P. M. Once the Shamrock Club meeting ended I headed up to the church to attend the concert. The photos include me after church, Robin playing guitar and mandolin and the two of us together after the concert.

I was working on a project trying to pinpoint the moment in time menswear started this absurd fit in suits and sportcoats. And Ash over at the Chaps Guide let us know that 64 years ago today Dr No was released so I thought I would go ahead and post my research. Most every one attributes this odd fit business to Tom Ford’s work with costuming James Bond and that is probably correct. Casino Royale (the Daniel Craig version) came out in 2006. But that first movie I believe was a Bironi suit. It looks pretty correct in proportion to me. I looked at another big movie franchise rebooted one year earlier than Casino Royale: Christian Bales’s Batman. Both Bale and Craig are in incredible shape so it’s not the fitness of the guy that’s different. It’s the cut of the suit. By the sequel, Quantum of Solace (2008), Ford was brought in and since that time the Bond suits got tighter and tighter and shorter and shorter. As early as 2008 when Tom Ford did the sequel Quantum of Solace you can see the operable button and the suit skirt beginning to creep up. I know I sound like a broken record. But I just happened to be watching these movies recently and made an effort to try and discover the origin and time line of this weirdness in menswear. Stores didn’t adopt this fashion change immediately but I would guess the switch came about within 10!years of that second Craig movie. In Casino Royal things were still pretty normal- The tux (excellent proportions) and the two following pics, front and back show a well proportioned blue Bironi suit which were taken from Casino Royale. Compare that to the next two Pics which are Ford designs and you should clearly see how ill proportioned they are. After QoS, the following three Craig movies (2008-2021) my guess is somewhere in the middle of these years guys started wearing this Ford odd fit as stores began to sell it as a “modern fit”. I m not going to belabor why it’s so bad again just thought this timeline might interest some guys. Before you completely write this rant off type this into Google and see what happens: