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A friend and I were recently talking about budgeting and impulse buying and I couldn’t really think of too much that I impulse buy. I’m sure there’s a few things out there I dumbly throw money at (iTunes, yes at times) but generally I’m a pretty frugal fellow who has a dash of miserly mixed in. The only thing I could think of during our conversation was LDS book/supply stores. Every time I walk into one of those I.JPG)
end up spending twice what I intended. Well, I found another item I can add to the list. Asian clothes/taylor shops!Last Saturday I went to visit William Cheung and Son taylor shop to see if I could get some new suit pants for my dad. A pair he bought four years ago had a flaw in them and he’s been eager to get them fixed ever since. I got drafted for the job this year and went in ready to put up my best explanation effort for why the new pants should be free but all the while expecting no sympathy. In the end I got them to drop their price 50 percent from where they first started. While I was there I started to get my itch again to buy more dress clothes. Heaven knows I don’t need them, at least more suits. I already own five suits (four are ‘undertaker’ variety according to my dad) so I don’t really ‘need’ any more. However, I’m going to be an attorney and will likely wear one quite often so I can rationalize it to myself, and I don’t have a light gray colored one. In Arizona light colored and thin fabric suits are a must and I could use an additional one along those lines. You seem my train of thought and where I’m heading.
So, I need some input/advice if anyone is still reading my blog. What color should I get? I’m
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leaning towards gray, and if so how light should it be? .JPG)
A straight gray or some kind of pattern/pinstripe? Shopping is really not my forte and I wish I just had my sisters here to tell me what to buy but that’s not an option. In addition to the suit I think I might buy some shirts as well.One other observation, I miss American shopping, or more precisely, American pricing. Over here you have to haggle for any item you’re buying that isn’t in a chain store. It’s a total annoyance and I really don’t have the heart for it. For some reason all my competitive juices these days seem to be reserved for games of Settlers of Cataan or smack talking with anybody who thinks Big-10 football is any good. Which reminds me of one of my favorite TV commercials. It combines two personal loves, Hong Kong and college football, and can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG2FB_WzifI I made it out of the store without placing an order but think I will when I go back to pick up my dad’s new set of pants.Pictures on the right are of the street where the taylor shop is (8 floors up) and some random dude wearing rain boots. I don't know why I take 1/2 the pictures I do but I guess when I have a camera in my hand I just take pictures of most anything.
5 comments:
I like the shade on the very right of the three in the picture. It's most similar to ore, that is... Pinstripe grey would be very James Bondish. Or at least 20s-style. My vote is for the shade on the very right, no pattern.
Do you know a good, cheap place to get suits? I got one right before I left HK in 2004, and I remember that a lot of missionaries in there. Of course, the only thing I can remember is that it's somewhere near Mong Kok.
That is, "I remember that a lot of missionaries went there."
I agree with Alli... Get the one on the right. Classic. Cool. Very Arizona Yale-ish.
Remember the suit I got in Singapore last year? Go for that. Women love it. Diane has to beat them back with a stick, haha. I would stick to the one on the right. Granted, lots of men pick that color. It's still a great summer suit color, though. Since it's summer in AZ all year, you won't have to worry about it.
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