Bonobos

Back before babies, Andre Agassi and Suddenly Susan, Brooke Shields was the teenage nymphet that

brought the Blue Lagoon to near-breathless life. And she was the “Oh, she’s just too young to be hawking fashion as a sex symbol!” star of a very famous Calvin Klein jeans series of advertisements, you might remember, where she not so subtly uttered:

Nothing comes between me and my Calvins. (nice grammar)

Now, don’t worry, people, I’m not calling myself a sex symbol in the lofty vein of Brooke Shields. Nor did I go to Princeton. And I am also certainly not too young to be selling my sex appeal (Fie on you, 30th birthday). What I am is one world traveler and present Manhattanite who knows a good pair of pants when I see them, and most importantly, knows a great pair of pants when I wear them. And these are they (accentuated by the correct grammar, I hope… take that Shields). For the past four weeks I have been wearing my Bonobos turqs lightweight cords everywhere. From the Grand Prix du Montreal to the Lower East Side of New York City. From Lisboa and Tavira in Portugal to Nantucket. From London to East Hampton. And all points in between (wait, that is an ocean… oh, right, I wore them on the plane as well, did I mention that they are comfortable… like wearing your favorite and most broken in pair of OR scrubs, that is if you are an OR doctor or have access to scrubs of the OR or any section of the hospital for that matter… by the way, I am not a doctor).

Bonobos have the rare quality of being comfortable enough to want to take a lazy summer’s afternoon nap in, yet have the stylings, colour palates and design elements (especially the patterned waist and pocket linings) to be able to party into the night. So why not do both. I do. And, to steal a quote from the woman who dominated the pinups from my early teen Tiger Beat years, as well as to finally add an element of truth to the quote (I mean, does anyone actually believe that Brooke Shields actually went Commando?)

Nothing comes between me and my Bonobos.

- Michael Spirito, 2:15pm, email from the Empire State Building