Roger's View of the World, Love and Seafood Gumbo!
Seize the Day! Put no trust in the morrow! — Horace
It finally happened! I passed up Laura in absolute pounds lost 42.6 on Jenny Craig to 41 something… it doesn’t matter that she is a mere slip of a girl and her percentage is huge… it’s absolute pounds that mattter! ha! I was worried as I ate huge at Karen’s track banquet at USC… on Sunday.
I lost 6 pounds in the weeks ahead of Jenny… so 48 is my real total… but no matter… it was a good week in dropping 6.2 lbs.
Roger Freberg
Okay, time to talk about fashion and the mulitbillion dollar industry that is not about ‘inner beauty’. ( I love that line… by Nigel in ‘the Devil wears Prada’)
As with many people, we don’t know what we like until we see it, touch it, feel it… or in the case of my wife and daughters… until they try it on and some one shouts,”dah-ling, you look so ravashing… wonderful… you must have it!”
As I am now playing ‘Nigel’ to the women in my life… it brings me to another line I have used and enjoy,” you will take what I give you… and you will like it!” It ends discussion right away.
This brings me now to Kenneth Cole… who’s simple styling is timeless and tells a great story… anyone who can sell 40,000 pairs of shoes out the back end of a trailer in 2 1/2 days to get the business started… is very cool. Here’s an exerpt:
“…With Kenneth Cole Productions painted on the side of the truck, we parked at 1370 6th Avenue, across from the New York Hilton, the day of shoe show. We opened for business with a fully furnished 40 ft trailer, a director (Sometimes there was film in the camera, sometimes there wasn’t), models as actresses, and two of New York’s finest, compliments of Mayor Koch, as our doormen. We sold 40 thousand pairs of shoes in two and a half days (the entire available production) and we were off and running.”
Oh… I did buy a few things of his … and they will like it!
Roger Freberg