It's All About Me.

I'm not really cheap, I am just frugally aware. I do sometimes wonder if I just shouldn't bite the bullet and kick it up a notch and go the more expensive route. At least once in a while. I looked for a suit yesterday. Right now I have two Men's Warehouse Suits that I bought a little over two years ago and they are still doable. However, both are black which made me think I should look for a different colored suit with the holidays coming up. Today we are going to have a quiz not only about suits but about yours truly. First up are the suits that I looked at. I did stop at the Dollar Tree first but they didn't have suits.

I went to Nordstrom's, The Men's Warehouse, and Macy's. Each have several brand name suits which allowed me to chose amongst several price ranges and several styles.

The first up is Canali. It is an Italian brand name. Their suits range from about twelve hundred dollars to about seventeen hundred dollars.

http://search.aol.com/aol/image?q=canali suits&v_t=keyword_rollover

Next up is Armani. Everyone knows their brand name, they are the Cadillac of suits. While you can get them as low as twelve hundred dollars the better ones go for eight hundred or more.

http://www.bluefly.com/Armani-Mens-Suits/_/N-1z140jiZ7qkZapt8/designerslist.fly?referer=Rgoogle&cm_mmc=EF-_-Google-_-Sui_D_A_Arman_B-_-Armani_Suits&ef_id=JhNM5q-PAAAAEuo:20101119171143:s

Following are pictures of Men's Warehouse suits. You can actually get them as low as two hundred dollars but the good ones run near five hundred smackers.

http://www.menswearhouse.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Navigation_-1_10601_10051_10051_/Suits/@/N-1z141seZ1z141yjZ1z141ye/Ne-b/dp-1z141se

Did you know that Nordstrom's has their own brand name of men's suits? They run from three hundred to six hundred bucks:

http://couponalbum.over-blog.com/article-look-fashionable-with-men-s-suits-37225941.html

Macy's had suits for as little as two hundred bucks:

http://www.shopstyle.com/browse/mens-suits?fl=r2

Here are the questions for the day. What suits do you like the best? Did I kick it up a notch and buy a more expensive brand? What brand name was described by one salesman as "better material than Armani but not as expensive. Those in the know buy this brand." If you answer that question correctly you will also have the answer to the following three questions: What suit felt the best on me? What suit made me feel stylish and confident? Before the next question I need to explain that this was at a store where I tried on several brand names and the one that I was wearing at the time was not the most expensive. "What suit caused the following reaction by the female tailor, you look stunning in this suit."

Thanks for your help. The answers and the reason for the suit I purchased will either be on tomorrow's blog entry or in the comment section of today's post. This will be the final all about me post for a while!


WHO AM I?

I was born in 1845 and died in 1908. I was one of the first women doctors in the United Kingdom and a campaigner for women's rights. I spent more than 20 years in India as a senior doctor at a women's hospital. My dad was a Baptist minister with an MA from Edinburgh University and my Mom was a lawyer's daughter who, unusually for a woman of her generation, had studied Greek. I was educated by my father after which I worked as governess and teacher before joining efforts to persuade Edinburgh medical school to teach women. After arriving at Edinburgh University I passed my matriculation exams with honors. As the first year student with the highest marks in chemistry I seemed to be entitled to a prestigious scholarship but this was given to a male student who finished behind me in grades. The group of seven women medical students to which I belonged had to give up the struggle to graduate at Edinburgh. My next step was writing to the College of Physicians in Ireland to ask them to let me take exams leading to a license in midwifery. I worked for a time at the Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women, Next I passed my medical exams in German and was awarded an MD. During the next six years I practiced medicine in India involving myself in women's health education and lecturing on a number of medical topics, including nursing. In reaction to the exclusion of women by the International Medical Congress I set up the Medical Women's Federation of England and I was elected president. I then went to India where I was in charge oa Dispensary for women. In India I met my husband and started to use a hyphenated surname. When ill health caused me to leave the medical field I was involved in the suffrage movement, representing Leeds suffragists at an International Women's Suffrage Alliance congress. I died soon thereafter of breast cancer. In my memory my husband set up a scholarship at the London School of Medicine for Women in my name which was granted regularly up to 1948. If you're not sure who I am by now maybe you should search ALEXANDRA NATIVE GIRLS'S EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION and look for the untold story. That should help you answer the question, Who Am I?