{"id":102958,"date":"2016-08-05T10:17:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T18:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=102958"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:22:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:22:43","slug":"clothes-make-the-man-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=102958","title":{"rendered":"Clothes Make The Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never earned over $50,000 in a year and I usually choose freedom of expression over conventional employment paths. As a result, I&#8217;ve never developed expensive tastes. I&#8217;ve never gotten into clothes.<\/p>\n<p>My sister came through town a few weeks ago and bought me a bunch of nice new clothes. When I wore them, I was stunned by how many compliments I received. Inspired, I went to Amazon.com and spent $22.50 on a <A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00BM48HSU\/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&#038;psc=1\">black Van Heusen Men&#8217;s Poplin Fitted Solid Point Collar Dress Shirt.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Five hours into wearing it, I have received zero compliments. My friend says: &#8220;I really like the brand of that shirt &#8211; I think the colour might be the issue as to why no compliments &#8211; maybe you don\u2019t look friendly in black &#8211; mafia??  &#8211; whereas blue is a colour that looks great on you! I am happy to be your fashion consultant until such time as you get a wife!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never earned over $50,000 in a year and I usually choose freedom of expression over conventional employment paths. As a result, I&#8217;ve never developed expensive tastes. I&#8217;ve never gotten into clothes. My sister came through town a few weeks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=102958\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102958"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150782,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102958\/revisions\/150782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}