As to fancy dress outfits, we go to a fund-raising ball once a year. After a couple of rentals I gave up and bought a tux. But I asked a musician friend for advice, he sent me to the store where all the symphony musicians and head waiters go for their duds. Not Armani, but half-way decent and quite cheap!
Stan On Jan 2, 2008, at 4:16 PM, Bob W wrote: >> Back around 1999 or 2000 my wife was working for, ahem, Andersen >> Consulting. > > I worked for them in 1997/8. I had worked for a London department > store which was part of a larger group. The larger group outsourced > its IT & finance to the androids and I was scooped up. > >> We did the black tie thing on a regular basis. > > We did before we were outsourced. The department store was into that > sort of thing, so my dinner suit (which I still have, and which still > fits) was bought on massive staff discount. Before a black tie evening > the menswear department closed early so that the staff could help the > directors with their bow ties. > > -- > Bob > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
