Pinstripe Suits & Second Generations

Canterbury Tales, which was written by Geoffrey Chaucer, is one of the classic works of English literature,  and consists of a collection of stories regarding the lives of pilgrims who were visiting the tomb of the martyred  Thomas Becket, who had been murdered in  Canterbury Cathedral in 1170. Written in what today is known as Middle English, in  one chapter  a sergeant at law is described  as being attired in “a homely parti-coloured with a silken belt of pinstripe stuff.” By the early Nineteenth Century pinstripes had made their way onto business suits and banks in the United Kingdom often required their employees to wear them and they had made their way across the pond to the US probably at that time. Such stripes have adorned the official uniforms of the New York Yankees Baseball Team for well over a century.

More recently, it was reported that former President  Donald Trump objected to one of his attorneys in his second impeachment proceeding wearing a pinstripe suit which he described as a ‘gangster suit.” Several days ago,  a row of pinstripe suits were on display at the Pinpoint Resource Fine Wear that is situated on the first floor of the Fifty Penn Place structure on the Northwest Expressway in several different dark colors and were being tried on by a seemingly earnest young man who appeared to be law-abiding and indicated that he planned to wear it to his office. He was later followed by another young man who indicated that he was in pursuit of a solidly colored business suit, and it was subsequently revealed that the was a member of the illustrious Salous family who made their way to Oklahoma’s capital city decades ago and have since prospered in several different fields of commercial endeavor and have also become known for the good works that they perform in the community. On Christmas Day years ago, one of the Salous brothers was observed on Christmas Day in an impoverished area of Oklahoma City dispensing blankets and coats to shivering street people, but asked a writer who was present not to identify him by name because his religion required that works of charity had to be done anonymously.  Of Palestinian heritage and of the Muslim faith, a new generation of the original immigrant family are now making their way into the professions, and the younger Salous told of how he is in the employ of a local insurance company and had previously obtained a degree in computer science.  The smiling young man departed  carrying a suit that he had selected with advice from Chris Khrais, the proprietor of the establishment, along with several dress shirts that the haberdasher had recommended to him. Journalist Leslie Berger, who currently serves as the press secretary for the bold  Oklahoma Attorney General  Gentner Drummond, and she was in the custody of her teenage  son who was in pursuit of footwear appropriate  for a youth of his stature and ambition, and  after he tried on several different  types, they  departed  brandishing the winning shoebox.

Author - Bill O’Brien (Guest Writer - Against the Grain - Thoughts of Bill O’Brien)