Its time to continue with part deux of the Fashion, Fishing & Freedom's vacation blog. A week is much too long to wait. I don't know how any of you got anything done this past week in anticipation of this post. Luke did an excellent job in his previous post describing some vacation fashion tips.
To recap, Luke and I (and our wives...no seriously) took a trip to Orlando, which included a cruise to the Bahamas from Port Canaveral (where they do that NASA space ship stuff). Similar to Luke, my vacations growing up consisted of driving an hour north to Missoula and spending the night at the Sleep Inn, since they had a swimming pool. Always a good time.
We decided to save a few bucks by taking a discount cruise line...don't worry, they had plenty of fresh fruit on board to stave off scurvy. We got a great rate by agreeing to mop the poop deck. We saved even more money by passing on the all-you-can-drink rum package (never buy the drink packages...two words: rough water).
The great people of Nassau were so excited for FFF's arrival to their nation, that they threw a parade for us!
After getting into a scuffle with some pirates (after we taught their parrots some inappropriate words), we opted for the less discount cruise line, which happened to have a formal night
I'd like to expound and/or elaborate (what, you didn't think I knew any fancy words?) on some fashion vacation tips by digging into the fashion of formal night. Formal night was created by the cruise lines to make themselves seem fancier without actually needing to spend extra money themselves to give the cruise that feel. In fact, they make money off of people because you can choose to rent a suit on the ship for a hefty fee (don't be a sucker for that - borrow a suit). As Luke somewhat alluded to in last week's post, formal night kind of stinks when you're flying to a location for a cruise, because you have to somehow pack a full suit in your suitcase. It only makes matters worse when the suit jacket you bring is a hand-me--down from your 6'-3" father-in-law and it has some shoulder padding. Hey, it beats actually paying for a suit! I've lived in the South for 3 years now, which means I should have purchased a suit by now. Somehow I've avoided that.
Only photographic evidence of me wearing the suit jacket (not pictured: bottom of the suit which reached my knees. Definitely pictured: hott wife)
I at one time owned a sweet brown hand-me-down suit that I scored at goodwill for literally $3. It lasted me through high school and college. I loved that suit because no one wears brown suits anymore. Fashion tip: wearing something that no one else wears is cool...I think. I guess just do it confidently and you'll be fine. However, once my wife first saw me in that suit, it was time for it to go back to Goodwill for its third (at a minimum) chance at life.
Just a normal picture of me heading to class in college in my brown suit. I actually borrowed this particular suit jacket from my roommate Matt. It was a hand-me-down of a hand-me-down. The hipsters would go crazy for this look these days.
Bonus pic: What suits in the future will look like. My kids and grand-kids will love to borrow this from me for their adventures (possible formal night on their Royal Galaxian space cruise to the moon?)
Once we got to dinner, I took the jacket off as to not look too goofy. My wife appreciates it when I don't embarrass her (I like to throw marriage tips into the blog now and then). It was also a comfort decision, which is one of the main factors in fashion as this blog has repeatedly stated. After dinner, our fashion co-editors asked for Luke and I to pose for a few pics.
Not going to lie, this was a little weird
Not going to lie, this was a little weirder
Not going to lie, this was the most awkward moment of my life
Just laugh it off and never speak of it again
Yes its true, even if the above pictures give you other ideas, Luke and I have very fashionable women in our lives
Stay tuned for Luke's post on theme park fashion in the not-so-distance future. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll wish you hadn't wasted so much of your life without proper fashion advice. Until next time...
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