Out of the Closet

Out of the closet: not me — the clothes. 

The vest, tie and shirt have been biding their time in the cupboard for 16 years, since way back in 2008. I don't think they were the pants that I wore that day, but they've also been in the closet and perhaps for much longer. As for the shoes: they're new, but until I dug them out yesterday, they were also in the closet waiting for spring as they are to be next years new runners after the long and messy winter has been put to bed.

Meanwhile, Sue doesn't have to go digging to find clothes for yesterday's wedding as most of her outfit is pretty contemporary.

We had been to a wedding just across the street at town hall and took the photos before we headed home. It was a gay wedding, so those two men were certainly also out of the closet.

To bookend the clothes and the closet motif, I last wore these duds at my own daughter's gay, out-of-the-closet wedding in 2008.

I was wearing green converse sneakers, just like my daughter on that day, and Sue was wearing green accessories. My bowtie and runners were confiscated by Allyson a few years later, after she had worn out her own pair. Fortunately, there was a matching, conventional tie remaining after her depredation of my wardrobe.

Allyson's was a grand Gay-Jewish wedding that day, held on the grounds of Sue's sister's country property, the same cottage where Sue and I took many vacations. What a blast everyone had that day!

Of course I didn't take the photos because I had other duties, but my camera took some, and I collected all sorts of pictures from all sorts of cameras and put a photo album together for the girls.

So I share with you a few photos from that album that was both challenging and rewarding to put together.  Note: there is a lot of white around some of the images because they are copies of the album page and not just the photos themselves.