Weird is not so weird...

As I sit in Powell's books downtown, I realize just how out of fashion wearing a suit can be. Hundreds of people walk by, and many look at me like I am somehow against the accepted norm here. Earlier today I was walking the sidewalks of hawthorne and received similar looks.

Me by the Powell's Pillar

Now, I admit that a suit is rarely my wardrobe of choice, but I had an important job interview today (not to mention I just plain look good in a suit) and then visited some friends while on the east side of town. It may be that I am simply not part of any crowds that regularly, or even irregularly, dress in such a fashion. But when did attiring oneself in a suit become such a strange and abnormal thing?

It seems everwhere I look I see stickers encouraging readers to "keep Portland weird", but the irony is that I am standing as the weird dressed in my astonishingly good looking suit here in Portlandia.

Guess I win, eh?