Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Designer clothing on a theatre budget

Howie-- All of your shirts have alligators on them, you're, it's like you're always in costume
Solomon-- I like my shirts they--
Howie -- You don't even have a personality, you're so...
Solomon -- and it's a Crocodile, it's a crocodile so...


These stupid little crocodile patches are apparently worth $60 each. Really you can find a polo shirt that looks exactly like it except there is no crocodile on it for about $20, so that means that the other $60 it costs for an IZOD shirt must be from these little green creatures. Perhaps they are also spirit guides that will bring you to good fortune and will make you look generally more attractive to the object of your affection... there must be more to it.

Because of these lines in our current play (Speech and Debate by Stephen Karam), I scoured two Goodwills and an Out of the Closet to find these two badly worn shirts with little tiny $60 patches on them. Take that IZOD, I just bought two patches for a grand total of $11! I guess that means I saved $109 at Goodwill. Not so bad.