{"id":9589,"date":"2014-06-24T08:03:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T15:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=9589"},"modified":"2014-06-24T08:03:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T15:03:31","slug":"shopping-by-a-late-adopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2014\/06\/24\/shopping-by-a-late-adopter\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopping by a Late Adopter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Painting-Jeans\"<\/a><\/p>\n

My current work clothes. Just wait until Ralph Lauren discovers this look. I’ll be right in style.<\/h6>\n

Where we left off, my mother had exclaimed how she was never interested in fads or fashion. I don’t remember it as something\u00a0she intentionally passed on, but there are some things we just pick up.<\/p>\n

Today I went shopping. I’ve been selected for jury duty for a long trial and suddenly I’m aware that my wardrobe has become so\u00a0limited in my years of not needing much. I’m sure my fellow jurors will be noticing.<\/p>\n

But first I took a quick inventory of what I do have.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0foundation of my wardrobe is\u00a0about six pairs of jeans, all the same color, in progressive states of deterioration. All but one (the pair I wear to jury) are\u00a0frayed at the cuffs.<\/p>\n

All are\u00a0faded, worn,\u00a0spotted, stained, and some have\u00a0bits of paint.<\/p>\n

These are my “dress jeans.” Eventually they progress to becoming “work clothes” and find themselves in ongoing service\u00a0in the studio.<\/p>\n

I’ve often said, “I have two kinds of clothes, those with paint on them, and those that don’t have paint on them yet!”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eventually, even the painting pants have to go. They take on\u00a0a definite “Jackson Pollock” look and some suggest\u00a0that I could sell them as art.<\/p>\n

Imagine my amusement when I went shopping and found jeans on sale uniformly frayed at the bottom. And worn at the thighs. (I won’t even mention the stylish holes, which were more in the women’s section.)<\/p>\n

With this head start, I wonder how long it takes these clothes to wear out.\u00a0And when are they too far gone\u00a0to still be fashionable? And then would they come back into fashion again?<\/p>\n

I confess I\u00a0am\u00a0a late adopter. I did buy a blue jean jacket back\u00a0in the ’80s, just before I noticed nobody was wearing them anymore. But there they were, on sale at\u00a0Macy’s<\/em>. I’m glad I kept mine.<\/p>\n

Today I was successful. I bought two new pairs of jeans (not frayed), two pairs of\u00a0shorts and a shirt. While paying, I spotted a nice, plain work shirt, faded\u00a0and blue. It reminded me of the kind my grandmother slaved over with a washboard and did her best\u00a0to keep from losing color. On a whim I threw it on the pile.<\/p>\n

Then I realized I’d just doubled the cost of my purchase. It was a Ralph Lauren<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Oh well, at least I won’t\u00a0be thought out of style by my fellow jurors.<\/p>\n

Long live late adopters. (Just live long enough.)<\/p>\n

PS. Just got a stylish hole in my new Ralph Lauren<\/em> getting the label off.<\/p>\n

_____________<\/p>\n

I’ll be speaking this weekend at Capo Beach Church, Saturday evening and three times Sunday. (Good thing I got new jeans.)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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