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Oct 30, 2009
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Well, I wasn't sure I was going to do anything for Halloween -- especially for work today -- but in talking to a friend on the train yesterday (@lork), we came up with the idea that I could just wear my tux and be any number of characters: Bond. James Bond. The groom. MC at a nightclub. Or just a cooler and more suave version of myself. I really liked the concept, and I've really been looking for a reason to wear my tux to work, just because I'm weird like that. It is Friday after all. So here it is.
This is actually the second tux I've owned. The first I had custom made for our wedding. It was the single most expensive item for the wedding -- even more than the Vera Wang wedding dress (but that's another story). It was an awesome tux, and I eventually wore it out, generating a rip in the pants that I tried to get repaired, but the repair made it even worse. This all came about just a couple weeks before the wedding of one of my buddies from work. It was an evening wedding, so of course I had to have a tux. I was also in the market for some new suits, so I went to a local store that advertised three suits for $300, and that's what I got, the tux being one of them. The tux is adjustable, so it didn't require any alterations, but the shop made another $200 altering the suits (like anything fits me off the rack). The bow-tie and cummerbund are done in a dark red and black pattern, the pleated shirt is fairly standard, as are the cuff links and studs. The shoes are my very comfortably soft Bostonians that I bought in Vegas one trip that I arrived and discovered I forgot nice shoes to wear out clubbing (@dreapuff ;-) .
Surprisingly, most people at work didn't immediately assume I was wearing this for Halloween. Actually, less people dressed up this year than last. I had some fun with it though. One of the guys asked me if I was going to a wedding, so I said, "Sure, that's the character." After I handed out raises to my group, they asked if I had an interview, so I told them that after seeing my raise I decided I needed a second job, so I had an interview as an MC at a nightclub. I ran through the supermarket, and the checkout girl asked if I was the best man, and I explained that might be it, but I might also be Bond. James Bond. She said I need to carry around a martini glass.
This is actually the second tux I've owned. The first I had custom made for our wedding. It was the single most expensive item for the wedding -- even more than the Vera Wang wedding dress (but that's another story). It was an awesome tux, and I eventually wore it out, generating a rip in the pants that I tried to get repaired, but the repair made it even worse. This all came about just a couple weeks before the wedding of one of my buddies from work. It was an evening wedding, so of course I had to have a tux. I was also in the market for some new suits, so I went to a local store that advertised three suits for $300, and that's what I got, the tux being one of them. The tux is adjustable, so it didn't require any alterations, but the shop made another $200 altering the suits (like anything fits me off the rack). The bow-tie and cummerbund are done in a dark red and black pattern, the pleated shirt is fairly standard, as are the cuff links and studs. The shoes are my very comfortably soft Bostonians that I bought in Vegas one trip that I arrived and discovered I forgot nice shoes to wear out clubbing (@dreapuff ;-) .
Surprisingly, most people at work didn't immediately assume I was wearing this for Halloween. Actually, less people dressed up this year than last. I had some fun with it though. One of the guys asked me if I was going to a wedding, so I said, "Sure, that's the character." After I handed out raises to my group, they asked if I had an interview, so I told them that after seeing my raise I decided I needed a second job, so I had an interview as an MC at a nightclub. I ran through the supermarket, and the checkout girl asked if I was the best man, and I explained that might be it, but I might also be Bond. James Bond. She said I need to carry around a martini glass.
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Comments (16)
haha your look great in your costume great idea
You look very handsom. I choose to belive you are dressed up like James Bond. Wher are your girls? and the car? Have plenty of fun on you Halloween weekend Ha Ha LOL!!! : }
I think you'd be a great Bond, too. I like the martini glass idea!
Yep, your Bond. What a great Bond outfit, if i do say so myself =] That would have been hilarious if you had carried a martini class around all day. You could have talked like Sean Connery too! haha, whenever I think of Sean Connery i think of Celebrity Jeopardy on SNL ["Trebek! I shagged your mother!"]
You made me LOL when you told your co-workers asked if you had an interview, "Yeah, after getting a raise, I have decided to leave" Silly people...
How was your tux more than a Vera Wang wedding dress?
this is a great tux! :) and i agree, james bond is the best character.
haha, who would wear a tux to an interview??? but i like the idea of just wearing clothes one has already to use as costumes. my "department" (there are only three of us) was the only to dress up for work, people just weren't feeling the spirit i guess :P Great tux btw, really there should be more occasions to dress up.
haha great idea =)
@kelsjax: It would seem you're all here. The car, on the other hand, is not fairing as well. If they ever dredge it out of the Bay, I don't think there will be enough left to trace it back to me.
@dreapuff: If only I could afflict Connery's accent. Celebrity Jeopardy rocks. Short version: The dress wasn't very ornate for starters, and had a retail of like $2000, which at a discount dress shop is more like $1000, then they ordered the wrong color, so they reordered it again (price fell to like $400 + alterations at this point) and it was still wrong but closer, and then they messed up the alterations and ruined the dress, so they had to go back to the first wrong dress and alter that like the day before we drove down to the wedding, so in the end she got a Vera Wang dress for free.
@faerieye: I wondered the same thing, and "MC at a nightclub" was the only thing I could come up with. Definitely need more occasions to dress up.
You do indeed look very suave! I think all men look nice in a tux. I think your stories are funny about people asking you what you were dressed up for. haha Happy Halloween!
:D lookin' pretty nifty! it sounds like you had fun (:
Haha, carrying around a martini glass would be brilliant! You'd have an excuse to be drinking them all day long!
im looking at a vera wang dress for my wedding...can you get me that price lol!! the tux looks great and that martini idea is great!
nice!
w00t! I haven't been kaboodling regularly, and the request list was so long, but I finally made it back to yours. But enough about me....you look very suave.
Sadly, I am not allowed to drink at work, so while I could carry around the glass, it would be missing some key ingredients. I thought the "no drinking" clause in my terms of employment were just because I work for a Native Alaskan firm, but it seems that it's actually a Government requirement because of the nature of my job. That's kind of funny because they actually sell beer and wine at the cafeteria.
Love this look on you. Bond. James Bond. Yeah though, you definitely need the hot girls. And a car. And a martini glass. No drinking at work sucks, doesn't it? It would definitely make it more interesting. :)