Denim Blues

It's Tax-Free Weekend here in Texas, an official state holiday when clothing and school supplies are sold without sales tax for three full days. The Professor waits all year for this weekend to replenish his uniform supply.

You've seen The Professor's uniform. It's this:

Levi's denim shorts and a white t-shirt. Sometimes he varies the ensemble by wearing a v-neck shirt. Sometimes he wears a hat:

He wore this uniform throughout our summer vacation:

Tax-Free Weekend is when The Professor ventures out of the Sears tool department and into the belly of the store where men's clothing is sold:

Today he looked at dress shirts in an effort to vary his wardrobe. I encouraged him to branch out and try some new styles. I even got him to walk through the mall and into Dillard's, where he stood stoically in the men's department declaring most of the stylish menswear as girlie, preppy or too expensive.

I threatened to disown him. He threatened to make me walk home.

After a full day of shopping, two malls (meaning two Sears men's departments), two discount stores and one sports emporium, we went home with three pairs of jeans and nine shirts, three of them combo deals sold with a matching t-shirt.

Unfortunately, everyone was sold out of Levi's denim shorts.