After a 5-hour delay and subsequent flight cancelation, we're rebooked and headed home - or at least my wife is. I'm on Stand-By for the leg home, so we'll see whether I make it back or end up stranded. This might be the proverbial last straw, for me, for American Airlines...

Couldn’t do a series on the style pyramid without including the most important: FIT. I’ve posted dozens of times on the insanity of modern mis-fitting coats so I’ll refrain from my organ grinder monkey coat pic I went into a men’s wearhouse recently and two clerks were at the mirror. One was commenting on how “good” the other looked in a coat he was trying on. The guy was probably 5’6” or less and the bigger fella was commenting in how a “short” fit him well. It was ridiculous. The middle button hit the guy at his sternum and the length of the coat was easily 4” too short. I see this all the time. Guys who should be wearing “regulars” wearing “shorts” and guys wearing “regulars” that should be wearing “longs”. It’s the torso not the height that matters. The operable button should be at the natural waist. The length of the coat should cover both the rear end and the crotch. This is all assuming the shoulders and chest are correct. Yesterday I spent a couple of hours with two guys at two different stores each of whom have been fitting guys in their own stores for a combined total well over 100 years. We discussed the horror that is the misinformation on the internet about fit. The basic driver is the silhouette. While yes there are some minor hacks to elevate a shorter guys appearance or hacks to offset a guys weight, tallness, bulk or thinness- there are some essential things to make tailored garments look correct. One is to ignore the fashion folly of too short coats with too high buttons. The other is the pant waist height. A pant waist should basically be at barely below the operable button on a coat (if one is wearing jeans naturally this won’t happen but constantly I see slacks with a sport coat or even suit pants that have a low rise. When this is coupled with a too short/too high operable button the effect is pathetic. Causing the tie and shirt to poke out oddly in this weird triangle ) I see this daily on TV anchors and sports programs. Unfortunately guys copy these bad habits frequently.