Robert on Pearson Street

I captured Robert’s photo the other day on my way to a doctor’s appointment one morning. I had my Olympus PEN with me since I never leave home without a camera. I’ve really been spoiled rotten by my Canon 60D, so it’s difficult to use my PEN now. Robert’s style was too good to walk past when I saw him smoking a cigarette on break outside of Topshop, where he works in the Personal Shopping department.

His vintage Ralph Lauren blazer reminded me of the Seinfeld episode where Elaine forces Jerry to buy the Joseph Abboud blazer with the “hand ticking around the crest” so she can date the salesman, who later promises to get her the Nicole Miller dress she has her eye on. Jerry later fails in his attempt to return the jacket “for spite” and Elaine cuts off the salesman’s terrible ponytail after she finds out he lied about the dress. The episode is called the “Wig Master,” you might remember it as the one where Kramer famously (and inadvertently) dresses up like a pimp when Susan’s friend loans him the Technicolor dream coat. It’s a classic, up there with “The Contest” and “The Tape” in my book.