• What’s your favorite piece of clothing that you currently own? – My 1992 blue denim KGON jean-jacket. It’s both nostalgic and comfortable. I bought it for $60 during my first year or so of part-time employment and internship with the station.
  
• What piece of clothing do you most want to acquire? – I want lots of pieces of clothing. If I had the finances I’d be a goddamned clotheshorse. I’ve always liked “dressing up.” You wouldn’t think it to look at me, of course.
  
• What piece of clothing can you not bring yourself to get rid of? Why? – Old vests that are too ratty or too small to wear. I love my old vests. And my old jackets… same condition, same story.
  
• What piece of clothing do you look your best in? – Back in the day, my best gear was the ensemble I purchased during one trip to the mall over a decade ago: Black fedora, black and blue paisley vest (see previous question) and a well-made black trenchcoat. The fedora doesn’t fit anymore, the vest can be worn but it IS worn, and the trenchcoat lost its buttons a couple of years ago in a freak backpack-putting-on accident. Leaving the past behind for a moment, what I look best in now would probably be one or the other of my short-sleeve cotton shirts, either the white or the blue. Ye Goddesses, I need more good clothes. And to lose some weight.
  
• What has been your biggest fashion accident? – It’s only an accident if it didn’t happen on purpose. During one stretch of time I was deliberately seen out in public wearing those absurd baggy-pants. You know the ones… brightly colored, flimsy material, tacky as all get-out. I had two pair. (Still do, actually. See question before last.) And I wore them outside of the house of my own free will. More than just a few times. (Now they’re strictly for ‘pajama’ duty, as they probably should have been all along.)

The Friday Five