Chocolate Brown

You know how some people have this amazingly effortless sense of style? They could make grandma sweaters and sweatpants look cool. Their humility is a mere formality. That’s not to say that they are big-head-walking-egos, it’s just that they look cool and we all make a mental note. You compliment their medium brown chocolate suit, but they recite a proverb and chuckle at you, as if you have spoken of something not even work mentioning. Style comes too easy for some people. Think: Collin Garrity, that guy from 500 days of summer, or Tom Waits. Total swagger. Swagger central. Style Town, USA.

You’re walking down main street in Style Town, and there’s this guy walking to a job interview. At least what you presume is a job interview, because he has presented himself in a way unattainable by most mortals. Hands in his pockets, his whole hand, including his thumb. You know? The thumbs out doesn’t work in the pockets of pants as nice as his. They go up and down. He always wakes up on the right side of the bed. That’s the guy. You get it?

I’ve always wanted a really clean, chocolate brown, fitted, three-piece suit. And, of course, with brown leather matte finish shoes to match. No hat though. Ideally, I would have a brown version of my current power hat, but we don’t live in a perfect world. I’d wear it to class. I would wake up fifteen minutes earlier to tuck my shirt and tie my tie. Speaking of which, the tie. It would also be brown, not too skinny, small knot. Cream-colored shirt, hinting at brown…but not quite. I would probably have to get haircuts more frequently though (something worth considering).

I envy white collar workers, mostly for their white collars.

So, I made a mixtape again. This one is the soundtrack to put on while your walking around in your suit. I would have put nothing but Tom Waits on it, but that wouldn’t be a very interesting mixtape to listen to.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/abagrta2gvx7313/Chocolate%20Brown.zip

Riley.