If you don't know me by now: Shopping

Over the last many months I slowly concluded that I needed some new clothes.  One of my work shirts has a hole in the elbow, a pair of blue pants is looking pretty threadbare, some brown pants have fallen victim to my uncontainable waist.  And I need some non-tennis casual shoes - the utterance of such an impractical idea must surely be a sign of my fashion maturity. 

So I went to the mall, with a focus on Macy's and side visit possibilities to Banana Republic and J Crew. A DSW show store was also in the area. On my list: brown and blue pants for work, and a pair of shoes.  After checking out Macy's for a baseline, then the other stores to see if they had anything of better value (negative), and then returning to Macy's to settle on some final items (I couldn't), I wandered into the GAP, where I bought a pair of grey pants and a pair of jeans.  Having failed on the pants, I thought the shoes would be a gimme at DSW, but I came away empty handed. 

So I went in looking for brown and blue pants and shoes, and after 3 hours shopping I still need all three.