A Well Fitting Bra

Recently I accompanied my wife while bra shopping.  Much better than going with your daughter which I've also done. With your wife the experience holds promise, with your daughter it offers nothing but nightmares. I was amazed at the cost of a decent bra but equally amazed at how beneficial a well fitting bra can be to a woman's appearance in, say, a tee shirt. Again, a thought better considered of one's partner than one's daughter.

This experience led me to reflect on just how different men and women are in their approach to fashion and appearance.  It is remarkable the number of times a person can go out for dinner at a nice restaurant and frequently find the women uniformly well dressed, obviously having worked to look attractive and appealing.  A dress, a skirt, pants, even jeans, it doesn't matter: if they wear it for show they've made an effort and it is apparent. The men on the other hand usually show up in anything.

The most popular choice in the line of date dress attire among males, say age 20 - 50, the past few years has been the jeans with a well pressed french cuff shirt, worn open at the neck and untucked.  You know you've seen this. It's slob chic and often completed with an expensive oversize watch and a casual loafer, socks optional.  The other end of the spectrum is the guy who wears his favorite logo tee shirt with shorts or jeans, the choice usually (but not always) dictated by the season. Bellies seem to go well with any of it. God forbid you should see a sport coat.

Thinking about this I've come to realize:  Women like to dress like grown ups and men tend toward their best year in high school or something borrowed from a patron at a Vegas craps table, aka, mobster chic.  Women show up in dresses and men show up in jeans.

I guess, as a woman, you learn to take what you can get.  As men, I know we learn to do the same.  That's biology.  But whatever happened to the spectacular male?  Let's hear it for more rooster and less cock.