When going for an afternoon jaunt, a WASP should still be aware of how they look! For my jaunts, I wear t-shirts with either my own or my dad's Alma mater. In addition, I always wear shorts that are a respectable length (just above the knee), and never-ever do I wear ghetto looking shorts that hang below my knees. Finish the look off with low top sneakers, and ankle biter socks. If you are interested in young ladies being willing to stop you and say hello, take a pooch with you as well. My boy never gets to run with me! The wife will not allow it......she knows me too well!
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Similar to what I wear most of the day. Computer-based work in an at-home office doesn't exactly encourage sartorial conservatism. I try to WASP it for business meetings or adventures with bankers.
Only poseurs wear shirts, hats and other apparel emblazoned with the names of an educational institutions, country/city clubs and related organizations with which they do not have a formal affiliation.
I would never think of wearing an Amos Tuck School of Business garment even though I completed its Marketing Management Executive Program.
On the other hand, I agree that a dog makes great trolling bait. My experience suggests a disproportionate number of cute babes love dogs!
If only everyone in the world read this post, life would become civilized again. Thanks for the reminder. My college tee shirts, however, are but a distant memory. So tees from that Maine outfitter will have to do.
Without making too much of a point over it, I would like to disagree with the anonymous comment above concerning poseurs. My opinion is that Richard does have a formal relationship with Yale if his dad really graduated there. This relationship would not extend, of course, to Princeton (say) unless perhaps grandfather graduated there, in which case it would extend. Recognizing tradition, continuity, generational and family bonds, and the like are all very much WASPy.
Anon: 10:33 - Well said, and you beat me to it! Grand PaPa went to Yale as well.
A few comments:
1. Those shorts are too long. Classic WASP athletic shorts should be mid-thigh. I realize you might not want to show that much leg, but that's just the truth of the matter.
2. Nike? WASP? Synthetics? WASP? Get some cotton shorts, my friend.
3. Ankle socks? Get some wool crew socks on those feet. Little girls wear ankle socks.
4. University shirts: These are classic, but I'd stick to universities with which you have a personal (not familial) association. Think of it this way. You're out jogging in your Yale t-shirt and some guy says, "Hey, I'm a Yalie too! What college?" Then you have to awkwardly explain that you aren't really a Yalie, but, hey, your dad was. Right. Everybody has a dad/brother/cousin/great uncle who went to Yale. If that were the standard for credibility, then the credentials would be meaningless. I realize State U might not be as cool as Yale, but it's better to be honest and humble than fake and fancy.
But, all in all, I commend you for taking on such a risky subject as WASP athletics. It's tough to pull-off in this day and age.
Agreement with Anon. @11:45, but a few things should be added.
Back in the heyday of the Ivies, nobody but actual Ivy students wore sweatshirts or other garb with the school's name on them. The only place you bought such things was the campus shop. You bought a Yale sweatshirt to wear to Yale games, not to show the plebs where you (much less your father) went to school. Now, after you graduated, you might still wear it occasionally for sentimental reasons. But you certainly didn't keep buying new ones. Those were things you wore during a phase in your life, not as a lifelong advertisement. The fact that any guy off the street can order a Yale t-shirt online (no offense, Richard) is part and parcel of the decline into meaninglessness of the Ivy style. So I say, help preserve Ivy style by mothballing the Ivy tees.
What, no ascot?
Oh, I think it's fine to wear t-shirts of schools you haven't attended, but only up to the time in your life when you could have attended them. I used to wear Harvard tees (my dad was a Harvard man) in high school. But when I didn't actually go to Harvard for college, I quickly realized that wearing a Harvard tee around my not-so-Harvard campus was a little, um, weird. I suppose I could have dug out the old duds once I graduated, but like the earlier posters said, it is a little funny to wear clothes from schools you didn't attend, especially if they are elite institutions that you probably couldn't have gotten into. It's like seeing some chubby slob in an Army Ranger tee. Yeah right, fat guy, I'm sure you're a Ranger. You know? So IMHO, Richard, I'd lose the Yale tee. It screams "pretender."
Love it, Richard! I was hoping you'd do a post like this! Personally, I prefer a bit of synthetic fabric--some spandex--in my workout clothes, just because I don't like my shorts and shirt flopping around when I'm trying to run and jump and all that.
Huzzah to Anonymous posters 11:45 and 1:26.
I am greatly confused as to how one would be required to wear sportswear when walking a wiener dog. How brisk of a pace can this be?
Please tell us more about "ghetto looking" shorts, Richard.
Does Mrs. Richard ever accompany you on your jaunts?
You did attend university yourself, did you not? Why so many mentions of where your father studied and none of where you did?
anon 11:04 - Yes, she does.
I did graduate from a four year university, and played basketball for the school team. Also, notice that I don't show my face in photos.....hint, I want to protect my identity. I seriously doubt I will ever tell where I attended school.
Richard
Boxers or Briefs - what is the WASP wear these days?- tried the boxers but briefs are more supportive while at the office or on a run -
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You left the house in those droopy drawers? And wearing a Yale tee-shirt when you didn't go there? Are you claiming that If your step-uncle went there, would that qualify?
If you have the dough, why flaunt it--W.D.
I think a plain, non descript t-shirt is fine.
Who would ever be so rude as to confront this man on the street anyway? Someone with good manners, which all WASPS should have to begin with, would never go up to someone jogging and start asking questions about his/her college.
WD
If you have the dough, why flaunt it--W.D.
I think a plain, non descript t-shirt is fine.
Who would ever be so rude as to confront this man on the street anyway? Someone with good manners, which all WASPS should have to begin with, would never go up to someone jogging and start asking questions about his/her college.
WD
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