Showing posts with label Fashion family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fashion family. Show all posts

Thursday, March 19, 2009

sharp suitors























My parents sporting suits in front of my mother's home in Louisville, Kentucky
Meet Paul & Jean.  Paul wooed Jean.  The courtship began with a "blind date" and swiftly they were in love and married.  























pve design, fashion illustration for J.Mclaughlin - a jacket over a white shirt and jeans
illustrated for a ad campaign
Seven children were born along with a family business.  All still growing strong. Fast forward to now.  Sixty years of marriage.  Mom and Dad, you are the best.  I love how you just keep on going, staying positive, perky, loving life and all that comes along.   Just like a well made suit.
Never out of fashion when it is well made, tailored to stand the test of time.























"The Sartorialist" - chic, "shopping your own closet" - re-mix of suits
I am a sucker for things like bound buttonholes and dressmaker or tailor details.
You both suit one another so well and I admire you each day.  My dear Dad still has the suit I helped select for him to wear nearly twenty years ago.  Accessorized over the years to keep it fresh.  Suits truly are a great investment.  They stand the test of time.  I wore a suit that belonged to my Great Aunt Louise on my honeymoon.  A deep navy, a wool ottoman, and a sharp cut, and fab buttons and bound buttonholes.























A Jacket added to jeans and a tank suddenly look dressed up and polished
(Jacket by Marc Jacobs)  This could be an easy vintage find, a jacket and vest.

Spring is in the air, and the time seems right for a classic suit in a lightweight wool.  Perhaps a texture, a pique pattern.  I may not work in a corporate environ nor need a full suit but I do enjoy looking respectable every now and again with a simple suit jacket or a flat pencil skirt or classic suit trouser.  
As I "shop my own closet"- I see old friends, secret admirers and suitors wooing me.
What Spring suitor is wooing you?  Does an interview require a suit?  Love your thoughts?