Green Vest

A designer green vest can go with a wide number of outfits.

I know you may think that this is a pretty strange post, but since we're talking about men's vests, I wanted to tell everyone about my very favorite vest. 

First of all I got it when I was about six years old, so needless to say it no longer fits.  Nor has it for quite some time.  But believe it or not, I still have it. 

I'm not exactly sure why I've kept it all these years, but I it doesn't take up a lot of space and it makes me smile whenever I see it (which is every few years when I'm going through boxes in my closet). 

So there's really no reason to get rid of it, right?  It's a green vest.  Maybe I should be clearer... a bright green vest.  A bright green sequined vest. 

With bright silver buttons down the front of it.  Not exactly something you'd find hanging on the rack in Bloomingdales.  This vest was special order.  And I think I wore it once.

This vest was part of a costume that I wore for a dance recital.  Hence the age six and the sequins.  And to top it all off I wore it with a pink bow tie and pair of white pants with pink piping down the leg. 

Who thinks of this stuff?  I couldn't make that up if I tried.  I looked like a waiter from the Polo Lounge in the mind of Tim Burton.  Or Liza Minnelli. 

I have no idea what the dance was that I did, but I can remember the outfit perfectly.  Of course the fact that we have several photos (the proof) of me in the said outfit does make remembering easier. 

This green vest could just about be seen from outer space.  The front of it was covered with green sequins from top to bottom. 

Three large silver buttons were sewn down the front (they didn't actually button), and the back of the vest was a stretchy green material that was made from God only knows what.  You just popped that sucker on and you were a human light house.

I kept the pink bow tie that went with the outfit for a while, but it has gotten lost somehow over the years.  It's a lot harder to lose a bright green vest covered with sequins.  And I'm glad, because it's the little things that mean the most.