Tall Boy No Shirt

What’s goin on fellas? To all of my big and tall guys out there; have you ever gone shopping to your local retail store to buy a nice shirt and necktie (or bow-tie for those of you who wear them) to wear to your uncle’s wedding in the spring or summer time? So imagine this, you walk into a store like K&G with your mom without any intentions on making a purchase, but while your mom is shopping you figure while I’m here I guess I’ll go look for something to wear to my uncle’s wedding Saturday. As you’re looking through the dress shirts you come across a Sean John shirt, that is white, with baby blue and lime green plaid design, out of all the shirts you see it catches your eye the most and you get really excited and have to buy it. While looking at the shirt you realize you don’t have a necktie or bow-tie, white, baby blue, or lime green to wear with the shirt. You then go to look for a bow-tie to match the shirt with, (because you want to increase the number of bow-ties you own) and you find the most perfect lime green bow-tie to wear with the shirt. Now you’re just so excited you go and show your mom and she likes the combination just as much as you do…There’s just one problem the shirt that you love so much  is one size too small. Instead of a 17 neck and 36/37 arm, you need a 17 1/2 neck and a 38/39 arm. So now you figure everything will be okay since you just picked up the wrong size shirt. While looking for your size in that particular shirt you realize that they don’t have the size you need. Now your day is somewhat ruined and you have to come up with a creative alternative plan (and quick, the wedding is Saturday, and you’re shopping on Thursday evening with no other time between then and the wedding). You then go looking through the limited selection of shirts they have in your size and you a simple gray shirt with no design. Being creative though, you go searching for neck wear to find the coolest self-tie bow-tie which is a plaid gray, silver, brown and black design. This bow-tie matches perfectly with the shirt, you then you realize you have a pair of brown dress shoes and brown socks to match perfectly with the brown in the tie. So now there is no choice but to buy this perfect combination of dress shirt and bow-tie. It’s wedding day, you wake up, shower and get dressed, you wear the gray dress shirt, matching bow-tie, black slacks, brown dress socks and brown dress shoes (although brown is a minor color in the bow-tie, the brown shoes on black slacks will make the brown in the bow-tie stand out on the gray shirt), you look in the mirror before you leave, you realize your swag is on point and you’re dressed to impress. You get to the wedding and get nothing but compliments the whole time. That my friends is how you take something simple, be creative, make it fit your style, and let it work for you.