#sartorial will

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What is it about youth that makes us so firmly believe that we’ll look fetching in long hair, strumming inept renditions of unpopular Beatles songs?

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I absolutely did purchase these the moment I beheld them.

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Occasionally one has a photograph taken in the midst of being styled by an exuberant and insistent granddaughter. I assure you the end result was ‘fresh’, or so Edie said.

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Presented in their box as part of an “Homage to Blériot”, as Delaunay might have intended. My nephew could likely tell you more about the artist; I’m more interested in the aviator. Air travel is one of the most marvelous inventions in the world’s history!

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Ms. Ahmadi presented me with these smashing Fox & Chave cufflinks in an Ottoman carnation design. I do, in my own modest way, observe Ramadan with her, mostly because otherwise it’s dreadfully awkward to have meals alone (I’m afraid I’m not terribly pious! I count down every moment until Eid).

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I’ve invented a new term for my particular look: ‘dorc chic’. Catchy, wouldn’t you say? The ‘c’ substituted for the more usual ‘k’ lends it that certain je ne sais quoi appropriate for fashion terminology.

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