http://www.topofthemountains.net/2006/03/01/clothes-make-the-man/ "Hitch your wagon to a star." —Ralph Waldo Emerson Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:08:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 http://www.topofthemountains.net/2006/03/01/clothes-make-the-man/#comment-44619 Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:54:02 +0000 http://www.topofthemountains.net/2006/03/01/clothes-make-the-man/#comment-44619 [...] And for those of you who are wondering what on earth I’m talking about, see my Clothes make the man post from a year and a half ago. And then weep for the old Ben who has been buried in the loose detritus of the past. [...] […] And for those of you who are wondering what on earth I’m talking about, see my Clothes make the man post from a year and a half ago. And then weep for the old Ben who has been buried in the loose detritus of the past. […]

]]> http://www.topofthemountains.net/2006/03/01/clothes-make-the-man/#comment-736 Sat, 13 May 2006 01:09:26 +0000 http://www.topofthemountains.net/2006/03/01/clothes-make-the-man/#comment-736 [...] A while ago my dress pants (which I happen to wear pretty much every day — meaning the various pairs, not the same pair, of course, but I can’t very well say “my dress pantses,” now, can I? ) started splitting at the seams on the side at the pocket level, creating a little hole which looked in on the innards of the pocket. Nothing too serious, but it just doesn’t do to have holes in one’s pants, so last week I bought a little sewing kit at the Twilight Zone in the bookstore. I even got a book from the library on the basics of sewing, but unfortunately it was by Singer and so it almost entirely focused on sewing machines. And the rest was about patterns and other “advanced” stuff that had nothing to do with the problem at hand, namely stitching the hole up. Luckily I had some vague childhood memory of sewing, enough to know how to thread the needle and go in and out and snip the ends and tie them together. And it seems to have worked. ~fingers crossed~ Even if it comes apart, I suppose I can keep stitching them back together for another couple of weeks. (And eventually I ought to learn how to do it the right way. ) [...] […] A while ago my dress pants (which I happen to wear pretty much every day — meaning the various pairs, not the same pair, of course, but I can’t very well say “my dress pantses,” now, can I? ) started splitting at the seams on the side at the pocket level, creating a little hole which looked in on the innards of the pocket. Nothing too serious, but it just doesn’t do to have holes in one’s pants, so last week I bought a little sewing kit at the Twilight Zone in the bookstore. I even got a book from the library on the basics of sewing, but unfortunately it was by Singer and so it almost entirely focused on sewing machines. And the rest was about patterns and other “advanced” stuff that had nothing to do with the problem at hand, namely stitching the hole up. Luckily I had some vague childhood memory of sewing, enough to know how to thread the needle and go in and out and snip the ends and tie them together. And it seems to have worked. ~fingers crossed~ Even if it comes apart, I suppose I can keep stitching them back together for another couple of weeks. (And eventually I ought to learn how to do it the right way. ) […]

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