2001-02-20 | 03:26:31

the other day at work, i was wearing jeans and thinking how nice it was to be able to wear jeans to work any old day of the week...not just casual fridays.

then today i was driving, semi-dressed-up, on my way to a story dinner with a girlfriend of mine (sidenote: tim curry read and was amazing. he did all these different characters' voices and made me realize the magic a trained actor can create with subtle expressions and changes in accent. he read an excerpt from what seems--based on the excerpt read--to be a hilarious new book by alan bennett entitled the clothes they stood up in.

anyhooooooowwww...so back to my idea.

i was driving along and thinking that i wished i was wearing my black satin elbow-length gloves, because i never get a chance to wear them. glamour of that kind is sadly absent from modern-day life.

hmmmm, i thought. why save those arm accessories only for special-special occasions? why not wear the gloves on a regular day to bring a little elegance to a humdrum routine?

so i was imagining myself wearing the gloves to work...sitting at my desk, typing on my computer. heh heh. then i added myself in a ballgown to the picture. then i decided all the girls at work should wear gowns and heels. then i decided the guys should wear tuxedos.

voila!

formal fridays.*

what do you think? it would bring a little bit of old hollywood panache to the workplace. think how lovely a female co-worker would look gracefully draped across the copier in peach organza, running off memos. think of the big boss writing on the marker board in a pleated white shirt, cuff links and black bow tie.

sharp, i say! sharp!

and girls, don't you think it would be a great way to get a couple more wears out of those frou-frou bridesmaids dresses haunting our closets?

corporate america goes cotillion.

i like.

*well, torrez just e-mailed me after reading this entry to let me know that formal fridays already exist and that it was on NPR last week. i promise i didn't swipe the idea from them. *grumble**grumble* next thing you know they'll be reporting on edamame vigilantes. harumph!

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