I’m not super great at it. My proportions are such that dress shirts and tailored items don’t quite fit off-the-rack, and I don’t have a tailor. I’ve always been a bit of a cheapskate, so buying finer pieces is something that I’m only now coming around to the idea of. I did, however, buy “nice” pants. At the Gap, on clearance, for like $14.<\/p>\n
They’re too long, okay? I know! I’m very short.<\/p>\n Pants, GAP These shoesies seem to be saying “Why hello there, handsome.” <\/p>\n Friends.<\/p>\n I recently made a change to my buying rules: Buy made in Canada or America only – buy local whenever possible. My last pre-change shopping trip was to the GAP in Fredericton, and I picked up these pants and two pairs of shorts. Looking at them now I feel a wee bit of guilt. I don’t wear them very often, as is the case with many of my clothes, and they probably aren’t super well-made. But they filled the gap in my wardrobe for work-appropriate pants, and that was important to me at the time. Later, gators!<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Work wear. I’m not super great at it. My proportions are such that dress shirts and tailored items don’t quite fit off-the-rack, and I don’t have a tailor. I’ve always been a bit of a cheapskate, so buying finer pieces is something that I’m only now coming around to the idea of. I did, however, buy “nice” pants. At the Gap, on clearance, for like $14. They’re too long, okay? I know! I’m very short. Pants, GAP Tee, Old Navy Cardigan, Joe Fresh Shoes, Ardene, with little eyelashes painted on by me Necklace, Friendship necklace with Mina & Lauren being … Continue reading Boop-boop.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/binascloset.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/binascloset.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/binascloset.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binascloset.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binascloset.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/binascloset.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/binascloset.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binascloset.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binascloset.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"CRW_1891\"](\"http:\/\/99.79.54.239\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/CRW_1891.jpg\")
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\nTee, Old Navy
\nCardigan, Joe Fresh
\nShoes, Ardene, with little eyelashes painted on by me
\nNecklace, Friendship necklace with Mina & Lauren being the owners of the other parts. I wear mine almost every day.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nLater in the week, I’ll try to show you my latest purchases, all Canadian-made. <\/p>\n