Dressing for (moderate) Success +80

Today I went to my internship for a busy day. I have recently decided to start dressing a bit better, in the hopes that I might look like someone they might want to hire. Today’s outfit started with a air of white steve madden shoes, with grey suede stripes, a pair of blue jeans socks, a green pair of Christmas in South Park boxers, a pair of light gray express jeans, a navy blue knit polo shirt from jinx, featuring an argyle pattern running down the front.

Trends emerging here include a positive response to argyle, to Christmas boxers, and to my light grey express jeans.

The Recipe for Success +200?

Having worked out some of the kinks in my previous outfits, I constructed a bold new offering to help stimulate our economy. I went to work at my internship today, so I decided to dress nicely. Noting that green clothing items have tended to lead to bullish games, I went all out—On my feet, a pair of moss green argyle socks, above that, some Vans slip-ons featuring the cover art of Iron Maiden’s ‘Piece of Mind’ album. I topped this off with a pair of faded, light blue express jeans, and some black polyester boxers. The trick? The boxers were my Christmas undies, featuring sparkly green Christmas trees. A diesel belt finished off the bottom half of the ensemble.

The top half of the outfit was simpler: a white v-neck hanes undershirt covered by a cashmere argyle sweater featuring green and yellow triangles.

The result, nearly 200 points of growth.

Note: I accidentally spilled some banana cinnamon ice cream on the cashmere sweater, which will need to be dry-cleaned. As we are nearing the end of the month, I am short on cash, and will not be able to afford dry-cleaning until I have an influx of liquidity from my parents, in the form of my rent money and grocery budget.

More Progress: +90

As we all know it is dangerous to allow loss to pile upon loss—I decided to craft a more stimulating offering today. After yesterday’s drop, I realized that the relationship between my apparel and the nation’s economy might be more complex than I thought, I decided to pay more attention to the full outfit today.

I had a presentation, and so I would be dressing more formally. I gave the matter a great deal of thought. I took my beloved Clae shoes—Costeau, in berry—out of their box, and put them over a pair of white socks. The bottom layer was completed by a pair of green hanes boxer-briefs (green, I thought, might help to stimulate the economy) I continued with a pair of dark gray slacks, a black leather belt from fossil, a white cotton undershirt, and the previous day’s Red Express shirt. I know, it seems like a risky play, and this as not lost on me at the time, but I truly felt a color coordinated offering was what our nation was crying out for. I finished the look with my stainless steel Michael Cors watch, and headed off to class.

The result? A turbulent day, in which the DJI came out 90 points to the good. An improvement over the day before, but not as good as Monday.