Uniform of the Day--National Endowment for the Arts

So, the most formal of the three events was today, downtown in the Old Post Office building, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Art, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the President's Council on the Humanities. I was moderating a panel discussion with novelist Richard Currey, author C.Q. Tillery, and blogger Kate Hoit--common denominator: all veterans.

We four gave our own thoughts on The Healing Power of Narrative, our subject, then had a nice back and forth with the audience.

I went with this:

A charcoal grey suit, a pink puppytooth dress shirt and spotted red tie both from Piero Politi in Florence, brown suede cap toe oxfords from Johnston and Murphy's handcrafted in Italy line -- highly recommended, very comfortable and sharp looking. I added the 1950-ish Omega Seamaster cal 531 and some typewriter key cufflinks.

I thought the grey suit was conservative enough for a government office and that the pink shirt and red spotted tie loosened it up a bit given that our hosts were arts and humanities people.