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.

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

So tonight I tucked my fr jeans into my new rocky boots to show them off and cause im wearing multiple shades of blue tonight , but on the job site today I left my jeans untucked cause of the amount of dust in the air. When I was oil and gas some years ago while working in snowy or muddy conditions I’d keep my jeans tucked into to keep them clean and after I was done or driving in the rig I’d untuck them

62 degrees Fahrenheit and in desperate need of a haircut before driving two hours to meet family from Switzerland. They are in town for the 85 th Tontz family reunion. With a cool morning I grabbed my ultra light weight wool Sir Pendleton shirt. Gas, suitcase, car wash then vroom. Off we go

I plan on this being my last post on Antonio’s recent preppy vs Ivy League vs Traditional post: https://www.realmenrealstyle.com/preppy-revival-fall/ The use of the word preppy and its connotations vary greatly based upon the decade one was in High School. For me, as a product of the sarcastic 1970’s- we welcomed basically anything to replace the dorky disco doubleknit disaster of the decade. By my Junior year in high school my Quiana shirts had been replaced with Gant rugby shirts and my bell bottoms were replaced by cotton poly blend Berle khakis with cuffs. The Preppy Handbook was not to show up for another 5-6 years so that word was unbeknown to me. As clothing styles happily returned to its pre polyester madness, the fashion world was turned on its head as feathered bangs on dudes, high heeled shoes and giant combs sticking out of guys pockets to maintain their zipperhead parts gave way to a rush toward natural fabrics, polo shirts, OCBDs etc . Yet still, I never had heard of the word preppy. By my Junior/Senior year in college-what was produced as another satirical parody along the lines of the popular Mad Magazine and National Lampoon magazine and similar sardonic movies like Animal House, Stripes, Caddy Shack, etc, (The Preppy Handbook) morphed from a joke to a Bible. We had a few in the store and would read them to each other laughing our tails off. Then the insanity began. Since we were named in the book people flocked to our stores to get their copy. We sold crates full at the store and being on commission learned to answer all kinds of goofy questions as though we were some kind of sartorial clerics. It wasn’t until I joined this community almost three years ago that I realized guys younger than I by 10 years and longer had grown up with the term as part of their lexicon with an entirely different relationship to it than I. I also surmised that after my high school and college experience, for younger guys, preps were reduced down to just another clique like goths, and jocks, and normals etc.