So, when I was doing the Ray Courts show, I met a very nice gal who was sitting across the aisle - Claudia Wells, who played Michael J. Fox's girlfriend in Back to the Future. She hands me a card for a store she owns and it turns out it's literally two blocks from my house, almost next door to the DVD place, and I've passed by it a million times. The store is called Armani Wells and they specialize in male clothing that she gets from a variety of places - movie costume people, cast-offs, or however - the clothing is literally like new, and the brands are all major. I told her I'd come in and she could make me a fashion plate. Today I went in.
Outside on the half off rack was a really nice coat, marked at 175, which meant it was really less than ninety bucks. Really cool, so I took that in. Claudia was there, and she outfitted me with some great stuff. I have no sport coat that I can wear (the one I own is from my super thin days and, as we all know, those days are gone and may not ever come back), so I got three great sport coats, one of them a 1500 dollar Armani which cost me $175. Even if I wear them only occasionally it's a great deal. The others were even cheaper. Now, when I go to Crustacaen, where a sport coat is required, I won't have to wear one that's three sizes to small. She picked me out six incredible casual shirts, the kind of thing that I like when I see, but which I never seem to be able to find in stores. Retail on these shirts would surely be in the hundred to two hundred range - here they were all under thirty bucks. I got three pairs of pants, average price about thirty-five bucks (one pair Armani), one pair of nice black shoes (so cheap I don't even want to mention it - they're plain, but it's nice to have a pair in case I should need them. Finally, she threw in one more shirt as my first time shopping there gift. I may go back in a couple of weeks and see if I can pick up a suit.
