Saturday, February 25, 2012

Fashion vs. Function

Would you rather be comfortable or look good?  That's an easy one for me.  Comfort wins every time.   For example, I need my jeans to be loose.  When I say loose, I mean I want to be able to pull them down over my hips without unbuttoning or unzipping them.  You never know when that will come in handy, right?

This morning I got grief for my latest fashion vs. function choice.  Kim just doesn't understand why I now tuck in my undershirt.  I'm not talking about tucking my t-shirt into my pants.  I'm talking about going full bore -- tucking it all the way into my underwear.

OK, I get that it looks ridiculous.  But, I got tired of my t-shirt riding up on me during the day.  By late morning, my untucked t-shirt would be bunched up an inch or two above my belly button.  I'd reach in, grab the bottom, and jam the t-shirt back into my pants.  As long as I stayed perfectly still, there was no problem.  As soon as I'd get up and move around, however, there it would go again.  It started to get ridiculous.  I was tucking and re-tucking my t-shirt a dozen times each day.

Finally, I bit the bullet.  One day, I got out of the shower and said, the hell with it, I'm tucking this thing in, no matter what it looks like.  What do you know?  Twelve hours later I came home from work and my t-shirt was right where I'd put it -- tucked firmly into my underwear!  Ever since, there's been no turning back.

You know what?  I don't think it looks all that bad, either.