From The Atlantic.
Gary Shteyngart thought he was doomed to a lifetime of fashion misery. Then came The Suit.
“The suit would serve as the perfect carapace for a personality overly dependent on anxious humor and jaundiced wit, a personality that I have been trying to develop since I saw my lightly mustached punim in the mirror as a pubescent boy and thought, ‘How will I ever find love?’” Shteyngart writes. “The suit would transcend my physicality and bond with my personality directly.”
“It would take a lot of work, a lot of research, and possibly travel to two other continents. But it could be done,” Shteyngart continues. “At the right expense, with the most elegant and sturdy of Italian-milled fabrics, and with the greatest of Japanese tailors, a superior suit could be made for anyone, even for me.”
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