Article: The Vest

Deep in your closet, back beyond the lethargic chiming of abandoned coat hangers, you go rooting through your vests.

You want your Christmas vest - brass buttons and red wool that feels like pool table baize, except thicker. Your first wife bought it for you and your new wife wants to throw it away, but there's a manhood thing about vests - a gambling, fishing, motorcycle gang or country gentleman thing, a carver of the Christmas turkey thing.

The vests you bought with suits don't count - they were just part three of a three-part suit.

But here, you notice, is your first down vest, rip-stop blue nylon shining with rock-climbing dirt; and the tuxedo vest, weirdly low cut - it has a ...

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