A College Professor's Disguise

Well, maybe a college professor at a hippie college somewhere in the northwest, we'll say Portland for arguments sake.  Regardless I found this nice little ensemble at two different thrift stores the other day.  A tweed jacket is a must(for a professor anyway) & you can never have too many flannel shirts(thank you old High Sierra by Mervyn's shirt).  The book I must admit I've never read & it could be on the curriculum so I figured I should pick it up.  The tie was actaully a children's tie, which I really have no excuse for not knowing because I saw the "Children's Place" logo on the back, so needless to say it fits if I knot it in a very unique(& short) fashion.  Lastly a proper professor has his mug for herbal tea, & I do fancy the Masonesque jar mugs.

Big rotund buttons & the indispensable elbow patches, those elbows will see a lot of time propped up on the desk reading & correcting papers, it's a shame I didn't find a good red pen too.

Children's tie & literature.  The book also has notes in it so it's practically the Cliff Notes version.  When I lived in Brooklyn I would RARELY go thrift shopping.  Either you went to a crap Salvation Army Store or an overpriced Beacon's Closet, & the "vintage" stores really take the fun out of unearthing a used gem plus they charge taking inflation into account(why can't I pay 1970's prices in 2012?).

Hopefully I don't run into any tykes at church sporting the same cravat on Sunday, could get embarrassing for them.  No kid likes to wear the same threads as an adult.

The only drawback to these wee friends is that you can't actually screw a lid onto them, the grooves are just for show(stupid), but then again I only paid .75¢, thrift shoppers can't be choosers, or choosers with less of a voice anyway.

Hey everybody, come see how good I look!  I rock this topnotch tweed so well it makes Sinatra look like a hobo.  & guess how much I paid for all of these fine items?!?  Well if you guessed $19.50 you were right(& please stop stocking me or at the very least offer to pay for my tie, it's getting awkward).  I don't consider myself cheap, I've said before if I were rich I would still thrift shop. Though perhaps I would just purchase the entire store, so maybe I would do things a bit different.  Any of you wealthy folk out there still find yourself bobbing through the aisles of your favorite second hand store?