Fighting Objection From The Wife 2!

[Alan H]

I think that your lady is pretty sensible.

The ONLY exception to this rule that doesn't make my eyes bleed is a tartan waistcoat, in the same tartan as the kilt and under a solid-colored jacket and honest to God, it took me a couple of years to not shudder at even that. Now I appreciate a nice tartan waistcoat, but....it....took....a.....while.

The flip side of this is that if you just really, really, really, really want to wear several different plaids at the same time like the Jacobite urge to mix and match tartans with no thought to modern concepts of color compatibility and so on...then dude ---> Go right ahead. I will stare, like the rest of the world. And your wife will recoil in horror. If she tells you that you're an eyesore, then she's right. But if she demands that you remove the clothing that you have chosen to wear and tries to prevent you from wearing it, or going of the house with it, then stand your ground.

You may look like a complete idiot, but it's your right to look like an idiot if you want to. It's NOT her right to demand that you kowtow to her vision of what you MUST look like. If she refuses to be seen with you, then that is her right, as well.

[English Bloke]

I think that your lady is pretty sensible...

Alan. Superb post. Still chucking now in fact.