Just dropping off tax stuff so I dressed down and used my sport coat to combine two traditional menswear colors that don’t commonly pair: navy and dark brown. OOTD Navy Tommy Bahamas cotton shirt R. Talbott blue with brown blazer Beige w blue pocket square Bill Blass corduroy 5 pockets 1982 Cole Haan Waxhides Orvis Field watch

Decided to elevate today! Blue dress shirt under a Brooks Brothers camel lambswool sweater vest. A beautiful paisley, madder silk tie from Brooks Brothers. A tweed sports coat and brown corduroy trousers on top of some brown suede loafers. Feeling good!

A vest, or more accurately in this case, a waistcoat, is a sleeveless garment whose primary purpose is to provide warmth which is why I grabbed one as the temps fell 50% over the past 24 hours. However, as style perpetually does where form follows function, a vest can provide quite a statement and immense versatility to an outfit. Let me start with defining terms. A waistcoat is always a buttoned garment that has no sleeves. Typically it’s a more restrictive definition of being a more formal garment than just a vest (in the UK the distinction between vest and waistcoat is even more astute). A vest can be buttoned or a pullover but the key to a Vest or Waistcoat is that each HAS NO SLEEVES. A vest’s fabric can be knitted, or not. If knitted it is a sweater-vest whether it has a button front or not. But again IT HAS NO SLEEVES. A v-neck sweater under a a coat that has sleeves or a cardigan sweater under a coat that has sleeves are NOT VESTS. They are merely sweaters. I see that error made frequently in this community. While I don’t point this out when it happens (and truthfully sometimes it’s impossible to know if the garment has sleeves in a pic), I respectfully address this as a mere point of reference to guys who might be confused about this distinction. Oh well sorry fellas, enough being the professor. Here’s my OOTD Mid grey MTM suit constructed Oct 1995 Silk multi print pocket square CT blue w green accent PoW French cuff Guinness bottle cap cufflinks Green grenadine silk tie Orvis waxed cotton blackwatch waistcoat Byford otc merino wool grey socks J Fitzpatrick black cap-toes 1940’s Bulova watch

A sample of some outfits I pieced together from items I purchased used from Ebay or thrift shops. Comments or ideas?

Last nights bible study the Mrs and I are part of was about actually living an actual life im freedom and abundance To have life and life more abundantly (John 10:10) We were asked if we are truley living that out, what it looks like for us? I answered I think it depends on the day. Do I walk in joy and freedom every day probably not and I need to work on that, cause the fallen world and the devil continues to try and remind me of my past and whom I was before being saved. The devil tells me I am not whom God says that i am Well Ive got need for him The I AM tells me Whom I AM Yesterday during work I got a text from a son of one of the gentleman in my bible study. His son loves a few states away. His father asked me weeks ago to send a couple things and a text to his son, and so I did. I hadn’t heard back from him in a few weeks until yesterday!!! So I was able to text him some more faith stuff and talk about his father and I being in Heavens Gates and hells flames production together. His text brought joy to me on a cold rainy day. So I can decide to let how the world wants me to see things happen or I can see how God sees things happen. One brings joy and the other despair. Why would I pick despair…. Common sense says to choose JOY RIGHT? It’s time we choose JOY It’s time we choose Freedom It’s time we choose Life and Life More Absolutely!!! Get Blessed by this Padre