Dress for the Party You Want to Attend
by @thomas-hatchett
"You went and pulled out the damn... (hiccup) tux!"
"Hell yeah man! Dress for the party you wanna attend."
"My man!"
This old powder blue
Frilly collard tuxedo tee shirt
Has seen some shit I tell you what.
I got it from a man I knew who thought it was fucking super cool,
Got it for the bs boys at his restaurant to wear as a uniform; to which I took offense
Thinking he was trying to make
A monkey out of me, and the other two dudes who did the bitch work and heavy lifting for the whole crew.
He was always kind of a condescending prick; and one I didn't really wanna go to work for again. He had a chip on his shoulder for me, or so it seemed to me.
(Carried over from another venture he had weaseled into managing, where when we began we became buzz-buddies, drinking and drugging and talking shit, but then his wife got pregnant and he cleaned up, but I never did. Then when he found the tolls kept coming up short he assumed the coked-out fuck-up was the culprit. But when I left it kept on happening.)
I was sad and feeling down from a bad break up I had caused, and I couldn't see how cool it'd be; I just wanted to blend in, in black, like all the rest who worked in town.
After that little episode I got fired (unrelated) and took to another road.
A few year later I found it rolled in the bottom of a bin of stuff that was old. I didn't HAVE To wear it anymore and so I wore proudly for how cool it was.
It's my favorite shirt. My party shirt. About a year ago, had te Gaul to cut the sleeves and crop the bottom. I tell you true I'd never owned a finer robe. It just felt right and people loved it and it became my self-imposed
Uniform for work (sometimes, not always, but for ye bigger shows)
And came up with that line to explain the foolish look I strive for.
"Dress for the party you want to attend."
A mantra of rock'n'roll
Look good or look comfy or look sharp 'n' bold. But look like someone out to find a good time or don't go looking go nothin at all.