Monkey Suit

Now you are all thinking with the title that it will be a dirty article.  Actually quite the opposite.  You see I recently went out for dinner to a “suit up” dinner.  The woman love to go out for dinner all dolled up and that is great and I enjoy that love to get all dolled up.  They find there best to wear or go out and buy something that they can show off in.  Us men are a bit more simple on this front, even more so if we are wearing a suit all week at work.

Dress code for any office environment is usually business casual, or suit and tie.  For men there is really no flexability unlike women who have multiple options.  No I am not asking for us men to be able to wear a dress to work, but I am saying that the rules governing the dress code between sexes is very different.  As long as the woman is not dressing to slutty they can pretty much wear anything.  Men are forced to wear the standard cloths and this is where my point is going to be made, or at least attempted.

Wearing the same dress code all week, because it is required, doesn’t make myself want to wear it again just to go out.  When I was younger I enjoyed getting dressed up.  Weddings or other functions that required it was few and far between each year so it was fun.  Now after wearing the same cloths for 15 years because of work it just doesn’t have me excited to dress up when going out.

Now you next question is why don’t I get a very special suit to wear.  Well that would be fine but the cost of suits, even at low end are not cheap and doesn’t interest me.  Plus with my weight being up and down this past few years with injury I don’t want to get something that I can’t wear because of weight gain or loss.  I appreciate the need to dress up but for just a dinner I don’t find it required.

So back to the opening paragraph we dressed up to go to the dinner.  I forgot my tie and the first thing that the matradee stated that I need a tie.  Cursing myself I headed back to the room and put it on.  The feeling of the noose around your neck has never made me happy, even younger I hated having a tie on.  Never saw the need for this simple noose around my neck.  Anyways once settle down I glanced around the room, and thought to myself the woman are all dolled up and a few of the men are too.  Of course those men also oozed money, so they probably a few suits worth a lot of money.

Then I thought about why I didn’t want to be dressed up, and realized that I do it every day so why would I want to for dinner.  I confirmed with Lexxi my thoughts and she understood where I was coming from.  We had our three course dinner and dessert and I thought to myself that I don’t think I could get used to this format.  I have had formal dinners before, and it to me feels so uptight and anal.  I want to have fun and relax when I have dinner.  Not having to worry about formal actions and etiquette but to relax.

Walking back arm in arm I realized that there is a place for formal wear.  To me it is not dinner out, but more a night out.  An event.  Not a hour or so dinner.  For my girls (yes I said girls) I will comply with the formal dinner wear when it comes up but in all fairness jeans and a nice shirt work for me.  Or a theme party where we have to dress up like halloween.  Either way as long as the girl is wearing a nice skirt that I can easily flip up for easy access all is good.  Just don’t expect me to jump for joy in wearing a suit.