[lit-ideas] Re: [Marquand - not the novelist
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I can confirm that tucking in shirts is a definite 'no'.
Then again, I purchased a pink and blue plaid shirt yesterday, so...
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: [Marquand - not the novelist
Lawrence wrote
> I suspect none of us is aging very gracefully. I too considered
> suspenders a couple of years ago. I have always had a problem with
> short shirts. My wife never used to complain about my not keeping
> the shirts tucked in, but I'll be 76 this coming October and,
> apparently, things aren't as seemly as they once were. I can't
> understand it. I still work out with weights, take the dogs for long
> walks, but despite all that I'm probably still going to be 76 this
> coming October.
>
I think that the current fashion is to wear one's shirts not tucked in.
http://www.jcrew.com/mens_category/shirts.jsp
Be that as it may, I always hear my grandmother's voice whispering that
I should tuck in my shirt. So I do.
> Oh, another problem I obviously have. I've forgotten how to spell.
> If my spell-check can't correct it, neither can I. And it didn't have
> "hippie."
>
My email program, and my MS Word program do not recognize 'hippy,' so
you should have had spell-checking help from somewhere.
Robert Paul,
older than Lawrence
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