Visibly Worn

In true geek style I get my kicks by hanging out once a month at these g33k dinner events throughout LA. It’s grub, good times, and general geekery and it offers me a break from the webserver making me do the “money dance” in front the webcam for its friends.

But this post isn’t about those dinners. Instead it’s about the daily g33k dinner Google Groups e-mail digest I receive and more specifically about some information that Heathervescent, the grand g33k poobah, clued us in on.

As it turns out, an advantage of living in LA is that you can buy expensive designer clothing for a tiny fraction of the MSRP. This is accomplished through what’s referred to in the industry as Sample Sales. Those of you who now or at some point in your lives have spent time away from the computer may already know about these things but it was all news to me.

The sample sale mentioned in the e-mail took place last Saturday and was for the Axis and Mondo lines of Perry Ellis. Not that any of those names have any particular meaning to me, but the Internet assures me that they make very nice clothes.

Now, I’ve had no particular issues with looking like this every day of my life:

It’s the official uniform of the geek, day in, day out. If we could, we’d wear it everywhere: fancy restaurants, at the beach, in the shower. Not that geeks go to fancy restaurants or the beach very often. In fact, some don’t even frequent the shower as often as they should.

But I decided that maybe having some nicer clothes wouldn’t be an absolutely terrible thing and this was an excellent opportunity to pick up some fancy duds. (Note to self: don’t use terms like ‘fancy duds’ when actually wearing said fancy duds).

In the end I wound up picking up quite a few clothes, including button-down shirts, dress pants, jackets, and blazers and spending what seemed like a fair amount of money but what, according to the MSRP tags, is an insane bargain of epic proportions.

Of course, no blog entry about new clothing would be complete without accompanying photographs. So, if you would be so inclined, please play Right Said Fred’s ‘I’m Too Sexy’ on your mental jukebox and bare witness to my awesome chameleon-like abilities to become an uber-sexy fashion model just, like, that! (claims may not accurately represent actual product):

Derek Zoolander: Have you ever wondered if there was more to life, other than being really, really, ridiculously good looking?