Let’s start this off with I was raised in Southern California… that means that a shirt that doesn’t have something imprinted on it is considered dressy.  I was a geek while growing up and would wear “nice” clothes.  That would translate to a shirt with a collar.  Sue grew up in the Midwest so her definition differs than mine. One Thanksgiving we spent in California Sue was kind of shocked by what people were wearing- I shrugged my shoulders, “It’s clean.”   This comic is a long time in the making and the joke has been repeated over and over.  It seems like every time we go to visit Sue’s family I feel like I have packed wrong.  “Casual” Sue says so I pack using my definition of casual which doesn’t seem to match.  We go out and I’m thinking I look like a slob.  What will I pack this year… I’m still deciding.

Oh, and I do own a tux.  It was one of those things that Sue had a dinner she had to go to for her work.  Since the event was in New York, renting a tux would have been a little pricey, so I own a tux.  I do wear it sometimes, and as someone once told me- you wear a tux usually at night and the style is pretty common so as long as you don’t change your size- it’s yours for life!