Well okay, there's nothing wrong AT ALL with having a good, basic suit. But this is just not what I wear anymore and it hasn't been for a very long time. Who knows why I've hung on to these for so long, but I do know that pulling them from the box yesterday was like a time machine transporting me directly back to my 4th floor desk overlooking the old Postal Square.
These woolens served me well at the time -- in and out of cars, trains, meetings -- all that goes along with working in an ad agency and for a magazine, but they can serve someone else better now. Even when I have the need to dress, this is just not what I reach for anymore. Changing times; changing me. To the donations they go, along with three other overflowing bags of outgrown children's clothes.
Bye bye Anne Taylor, DKNY, Jones New York. So long suits. Have a nice second life.
That feels so good.