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Envy is a terrible, terrible thing. It can be responsible for warping the minds of men and turning their souls to the dark side. Oh well. Here is a fairly short rant about how people with style ruin lives, brought to you by Mr. Chris Keates. Short but sweet, as they say. Oh, and the article too.
.people with style
How do they do it?
I really, really envy people with style. And I mean really. How do they manage,
at 6pm after a busy day, to look as if they have just stepped off of the Paris
catwalk? God knows that the best I can possibly hope to manage by the end of
the day is to look like I've just slept in my clothes underneath the Paris catwalk.
Despite my best efforts, I generally seem to begin the day looking like a walking
clotheshorse, and then gradually progress to something resembling a rotary clothesline
on a windy day, and finally to looking (and feeling) like a scarecrow who's
just been gang-raped by a band of passing tramps. I think I can say with certainty,
that I could make even a creation by Armani or Gucci look like a family of bears
have camped in it for a fortnight after just five minutes wear. Guess I'd better
just accept that, if you either got it or you ain't; I definitely fall into
the latter category. Anyway, I'm in danger of being mistaken for a bundle of
old clothes by the man from Oxfam if I sit still for too long.
Anyone know a good tailor?
(And on a side note, "Know a good tailor?" is what Peter Sellers
once said, as he stood at the door of his friend's apartment smoking a pipe
and wearing nothing but a pair of socks. True story. - Dep Ed)
By Chris Keates, currently working in a workshop (obviously) in his garage, building very small scale models of wardrobes, gliders and bowls of fruit.