Dress the part.

Here, an ingenue author of poignant children’s books, like Come to the Doctor, Harry:

[Johnson shorts + J.Crew tux shirt + J.Crew tux blazer + Gorjana jewelry + Gucci heels + Burberry scarf + vintage gold club bar glass + vintage book I just got for my baby nephew to begin the slow, gradual process of imposing my tastes and preferences upon him.]

Hopefully, all conscientious mothers are in a slight panic, running to make sure they don’t own any kids’ books written by yours truly, on the off chance I might have slipped “throbbing member” into a story, per my last post (which no one noticed anyway).

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Loitering outside the Drones Club.

[J.Crew wool tuxedo jacket with satin lapels! + Alexander Wang pocket tee + Splendid drape cardigan + Missoni scarf as belt + J.Crew 3″ broken-in chino + vintage cross + my old $10 surf shop specs I’ve now decided are the best sunglasses I’ve ever owned + Shashi bracelets + YSL Arty Ovale ring.]

The Drones Club is strictly a men’s only club, and right ho—what with events like the Annual Fat Uncle’s contest and the Annual Darts Tournament. So because I could not acquire admittance to get a Buck’s Fizz or a Sidecar from McGarry, the bartender, I fiddled around outside in a wool tux blazer, patent leather tuxedo shoes, with a stock market bar glass full of rum and tonic, hoping to catch a glimpse of Monty Bodkin or Bertie himself. Maybe get invited in for a game of cards.

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Vintage bar glass.

[My gramps’ bar glasses.]

I don’t watch Mad Men (yet… Netflix), but I imagine these bar glasses would fit right in next to the decanters of scotch in the offices at Sterling Cooper. Although, they’d probably better fit in down the island up in the World Trade Center in a broker’s office who, in anticipation of a 3-martini lunch, told his secretary not to let him sign anything important that afternoon.

I nicked these from my grandparents during a downsizing. I knew I could give them a good home. Now, they are home to Rob’s evening tonics [and my rum and tonics].

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