{"id":1023,"date":"2010-12-22T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2010-12-22T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T09:00:00","slug":"new-leather-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1023","title":{"rendered":"New Leather Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/div>\n

Okay, okay, I know … I bitch about dressing up.  So I’m breaking my bitchfest, by treating myself to a new leather suit<\/a>.  Formal dress pants<\/a> and a dress leather shirt<\/a>, with a colorful leather tie<\/a>, and even a leather vest<\/a>.  The pants, shirt, and vest are all from Northbound Leather<\/a> of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.<\/p>\n

I got out the old black leather blazer to go with it, though I must admit it’s rather ratty.  Perhaps next year I’ll spring for a new one.  (Northbound wanted over CDN$700 for a black leather blazer that matches, but that was too much money for something I would not wear very much, so I didn’t get it.)<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/div>\n

These leather duds will find themselves on me on Christmas Day.  My partner and twin brother will be amazed, and the family will give me well-deserved grief when we visit them.  But that’s okay, I can take it — in full leather.<\/p>\n

I ordered the new dress leather shirt and formal dress leather pants from Northbound Leather in November.  I received them on December 8, only to have to return them<\/a> because the shirt was too small and the pants were unhemmed.  They replaced the shirt with a larger size and hemmed the pants, and returned them to me quickly.  FedEx delivered them on Saturday. <\/p>\n

<\/a><\/div>\n

I had to wait for my partner to leave for his trip to pick up his mother before trying them on.  Man, do these leather duds feel<\/i> great!  Both the shirt and the pants are lined with satin.  It’s so smooth on my skin.  The quality of the leather is absolutely outstanding: shiny, supple, and unblemished.  Northbound makes really good stuff from the highest quality leather.  Though not cheap, this gear will last well beyond my lifetime (provided I care for it, as I regularly do with my leather gear.)<\/p>\n

So, whaddya think?  Is this Leather Dude ready for Christmas, or what?<\/p>\n

Life is short:  get in gear!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, okay, I know … I bitch about dressing up.  So I’m breaking my bitchfest, by treating myself to a new leather suit.  Formal dress pants and a dress leather shirt, with a colorful leather tie, and even a leather … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leather-lifestyle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}