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Monday, September 24, 2018

Clearing Off All Stock By Wednesday

We have a delivery of new shirts coming this week as well as new silks and new products that need to be added into the website and to remove a lot the clutter we are offering you up to 70% OFF by Wednesday to entice you to consider a new addition to your wardrobe. If you are needing a wedding bow tie, now is the time to act, if you are in need of a new bow tie for a new suit, now is the time to act. I am available for our customers on +61413140994 for Whatsapp where I can guide you towards the right silk. I am on this channel roughly every hour of the day other than when my eyes are shut. Even then, I am partial to a 3am enquiry if my bladder gets me up at that hour. Good luck, I highly recommend the Yuzen silks. We are due to receive a new batch soon, so if you don’t see anything you like, just wait. Something will come along soon enough.


Saturday, September 22, 2018

IKIGAI - FINDING PURPOSE IN YOUR LIFE ....

Sex. Sexuality. Sensuality. It's so important. Touch, smell, feel, look. Exploration. Satisfying a desire only to see it rise again. Addiction, toxicity. Attract. Repel. The new becomes old hat, removed, only to be picked up again later. And then it follows with memory, something that can often be stronger than the moment itself. Watching Evita at the Sydney Opera House two nights ago I was reminded of a fling that was brewed over weeks, was exercised within a matter of two, and then was exorcised in a matter of days.

I think, in my opinion, I bring a certain sensuality to bow ties. Through colour and design and perfume I try to inspire our customers to engage. Of course, some of it might be considered perverted, but then I am a little perverted...

I was waiting for my daughter to finish ballet. A man I once spent a good deal of time with, I will call him Giles, he'd had a number of toxic relationships over the years. Highly intelligent but he somehow was always attracted to the nasty ones. We paid each other a compliment. He looked me up and down, told me I looked very healthy and vibrant. I said the years had been good to him.

Then he said 'my friend, you are bored. I can just tell. You need to find your Ikigai!"

"My what?"

"Your Ikigai, your reason for being, the thing that makes you zing".

And of course, there we both were rushing to Wikipedia to fact check it and he was right and I thought to myself 'Gosh I love those Japanese' and I immediately thought of Hokusai in front of a woodblock carving or Jiro making sushi.

What a culture! I have been meaning and threatening to go there over and over but I think my friend sitting down on the bench outside my barber's shop might have tipped me over the edge.

I do not consider my time on this planet wasted, but sometimes we hit a real comfort zone and I think I have been too complacent and I think I have been too complacent with all of you. There is a great quote, I think it might have been Marlene Deitrich, who said 'you can do anything you want to a woman, anything, but don't ever bore her'. I think that might tie in well to my concurrent desire to talk about sex and ikigai and find new meaning as we hit the next round of silks and product.