Sitting at lunch in the Dining Room of the brand-spanking-new Park Hyatt Hotel on Sydney Harbour, my dear, deaf, 92 year-old aunt asks me with raised voice, “What are you doing wearing that old coat? It looks tired!”
Showing her the Giorgio Armani label and explaining my comfort in wearing such an ‘unstructured’ style of jacket falls on deaf ears (literally!). I’d also freshly shaved for the occasion. Almost ignoring that I’d spoken, she says, “Why not give the coat to Vinnie’s, (St Vincent de Paul op. shop)? You must have been wearing it for years!
93 year-old Aunty Beth sits in the new Dining Room of the refurbished Park Hyatt Hotel on Sydney Harbour
Then the fashionably-attired waitress, (whom aunty notices and comments favourably upon), comes to the table. Pouring a glass of complimentary chardonnay to the standard halfway mark, dear aunt tells her in authoritative tones, “Keep pouring!”
The grey day matches the colour palette of the photos I take. This in turn resembles somewhat the muted colours in the stylishly refurbished dining room of the Park Hyatt.
Across the water, the iconic Sydney Opera House sits with sails reaching for the clouds.
Iconic (all three of us!)
The jacket looks good to me!
How was the hotel? when next we visit SYD is it a good place to stay as we many Hyatt points.
Springtime in NYC, yeah!!!
Bill, Your Hyatt points mighty get you in the front door! They’ve done a very stylish job if the public areas are anything to go by.
I happen to think that the floral arrangements are outstanding, whereas my aunt comments a gran voce on the small low ‘clumps’ of perfect white hydrangea, standing in lines of three and dotted all around the lounge area. “Not very Constance Spry!”
Park Hyatt is by far the best hotel in Sydney. You can have a 400 sq ft Royal Suite with floor to ceiling views of the Opera House from the giant bed, for only $16,000 per day! I hope to do New York in Springtime, 2013. See you then, if not here before. M
M,
I am sorry but I agree with Edmundo. This Armani jacket has seen its days! Even Armani items get out of fashion.
It needs a 92 year old lady to tell you to renew your wardrobe!
Bruder
Michael,
I keep telling you the same thing …. you need a new wardrobe. The jacket is already out and so is the lilac one. What are we going to do with you?
Edmundo
lookin’ sharp mick
nephew mark
Michael, I can’t make out whether the third icon in your harbourside pic is you or the lovely old Manly ferry.
Please keep the Armani jacket for Des. After all, he is somewhat older and might get away with it!!! By the way, we are staying with Andre who used to be a major supplier of the Armani jackets you love so much!
June dear, if I subscribed to Edmundo’s sartorial slant on life allowing forever-changing fashion trends dictate my wardrobe, I’d be poorer than I already am! And there’s Eddy joining the chorus saying my favourite Armani jacket has seen its days and I need to renew my wardrobe.
Sorry for Des, but that jacket is not going anywhere, except perhaps more frequently to the dry cleaners. Enjoy the remainder of your stay in India.
The jacket looks wide awake to me, Mick!!
T
Poor Michael, getting global attacks just because an old fashioned jacket…..
Well….we love you Girogio, oh yes we do, and anything he does! One step into his store in Rome and the staff a breathless…oh yeah then there is time to look at the clothes.