Well Scuff My Shoes!

[Tracy Mitchell]

~


 Well Scuff My Shoes!
                                For Ian

Hard to believe he showed up 
at the wrong time and with 
a Half Windsor---may as well
have been in a donkey cart, with
a red fedora--worn by the donkey.

Half Windsor, my ass! -- makes him 
look lopsided--so hard to trust a guy who
looks lopsided. His very judgment 
becomes self-questioning. 

What?  Has he never heard 
of the Full Windsor?

Being for sixty-six years 
a  Full Windsor man, perhaps 
I am too opinionated, too defensive,  
too . . . civilized.

~




 

[indar]

How to tie a Windsor Knot - Half Windsor, Double Windsor and Triple Windsor - Bing video

All this fuss about a necktie? Dear sir, imagine being a woman concerned with proper fashion (life for them must be hell)

[Tracy Mitchell]

Greetings, Indar -- I can't imagine the fashion push-pull for women.  Hopefully few get as undie-knotted as this Narrator.

Cheers.

T

[Mark]

Would like to see a donkey in a red fedora. I wore a plain-knot tie to school every day from Grade 3 to 12. Long time ago.  Fun poem. 

[Tracy Mitchell]

Mark -- ties to school -- it was a decidedly different world then.

Cheers.

[Mark]

The scholars still do here - we follow the British tradition of school uniforms, especially the English-speaking schools.  

[Tracy Mitchell]

Huh, I thought I posted this -- but here's {again} maybe:

I understand the arguments for uniforms--to remove class distinctions evidenced by personal fashion choices, but I have a hard time ascribing that to Brits and Brits' cultural offspring.  More a sign of elitism perhaps.  IN any event, it may be an easy straw-man target for the 'rebels' to rebel against.  An institutional path for the "non-conformists" to safely exercise their oppositional defiance.  Without really crossing the real boundaries.  Just a thought.

T

[Dave]

Since bankers wear ties and those wankers went to schools with school uniforms, called suits when you are an adult, and so many of those bankers are screwign us right left and centre, the only just intelligent conclusion anyone could come to is 'Never trust a man in a suit.'
 

[Mark]

Well said, Dave. A good rule of thumb.

Drafted this a while back...

A room full of empty suits
with pocketfuls of blood
just laughing and joking
at the downfall of it all

[Gyppo]

Since bankers wear ties and those wankers went to schools with school uniforms, called suits when you are an adult, and so many of those bankers are screwign us right left and centre, the only just intelligent conclusion anyone could come to is 'Never trust a man in a suit.'

Dad always said you should never put a man down just because he's wearing his 'working clothes', and for some people - never me I'm glad to say - a suit is their working clothes.

But he had one exception to this, and my life has led me to agree.

"Never trust a man in a brown suit.  He's probably got a brown nose as well."

Gyppo