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DOOM_CLONE

                                             September 29, 2013

For those of you interested in being a
doom clone, here are the basics:

   Combat pants, usually black,
   sometimes green or khaki or             POCKET_MARKED
   (lately) slate gray.

   T-shirt, showing an ambiguous
   logo or image with *no text*.
                                                    Both shirts are
   Long-sleeved shirt that buttons                  always tucked-in.
   up the front, worn partially
   open over the T-shirt.
                                          This second layer can only
   Shoes: something like plain            be worn if weather allows,
   high-top sneakers or black             and frequently it doesn't
   combat boots.                          in the Bay Area.

       The modern athletic shoe doesn't
       work at all, much to my annoyance:
       bright white, or radioactive neon           The long-sleeved shirts
       clashing colors, made of hundreds           I wear are nearly always
       of busy little pieces glued or sewn         dark, deep colors; not
       together, invariably made in China.         the light pale pastels
                                                   of office wear.

                                                   There's an endless supply
                                                   of these long-sleeved
                                                   shirts available at thrift
                                                   stores-- guys must get them
          Colors:                                  for weddings and then never
          black                                    wear them again.
          green, usually dark
          purple/maroon, usually dark                 Some of them actually
                                                      require cuff-links.

          Sometimes:
          gray, red
                              Combination rules:
          Never blue.
                              black goes with anything
          (I make rare        (of course), though
          exceptions          actual blacks are not
          for deep,           usually true black, and
          midnight            typically have a tint
          blues.)             like purple or green.

    When I was a kid I would
    wear "navy" on occasion,      Green always goes with
    but I've long since           purple/maroon.
    gotten disgusted with
    it, it's like a phoney,       Green rarely goes with
    uncommitted black.            another green: shades of
                                  green clash with each other.


       I have absolutely no difficulty
       about gettting dressed in the
       morning, and there's nothing
       particularly fussy or impractical
       about these outfits.

       Nevertheless I get praise from
       women for often looking "dressed     Guys sometimes hassle me for
       up".  It doesn't take much.          always looking like I'm on my
                                            way to a night club.






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