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Originally Posted by
MillionaireTeacher 
Once you get bitten by the bug, you always want to be dressed up. But is there a lashback? For example, your friends are sitting around for a NFL game, and you show up with your monocle and ticket pocket, while they are in jeans/tees. Sure, you have style. But, at some point, do you look ridiculous in your longwings while they are in Eccos? IF you're the ONLY guy in a suit, are you the douche bag who is trying too hard (You can't be ON all the time, can you?), or the only guy with "style"? It seems like a fine line b/w the two.
I don't have 'the bug'. I slob as well as anyone else. But the worst moment - I went to a wedding of a friend. I made an effort. Certain other people - ahem, the groom to be specific - didn't. As a result, everyone who wasn't a family member / knew the groom mistook me for the husband-to-be. Especially when I was escorting him from the hotel to the church. Parents and the older camp came appropriately dressed, but many other friends on his side also failed to make the effort. So you had us lot - my circle of friends - on one side in full dress, and some of their lot in a shirt and trousers, no tie. Probably not a consequence of the implications of the above, but the marriage lasted well under half a decade.
