Night Business Suit? Brooks Brothers, Really? – IMRAN®

Night Business Suit? Brooks Brothers, Really? – IMRAN®
I’ve bought some fantastic suits from Brooks Brothers—but this? This is where I have to draw the line.
Captured ten years ago (May 2nd, 2015) and stumbled upon today, this plaid extravaganza is a bold testament to fashion… or maybe just a test of how much a man can endure before completely losing faith in menswear. With its red, blue, green, and white checkered chaos, paired with a white shirt and a blue lens-flares-like polka-dot tie, this ensemble looks like someone tried to make picnic blanket chic—and failed spectacularly.
Even if Brooks Brothers offered me a lifetime supply of proper suits, free tailoring, and an all-expenses-paid trip to Milan, I still wouldn't wear this. Not even as a prank. Not even in the dark where nobody could see me.
For the executive who secretly longs to be the star of a barbershop quartet? The aspiring mogul who wants to make a statement—just not a good one? Who exactly was this made for? Because I have questions. And they’re plaid and confused.

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A Colorful Happy Life Is Whatever You Make Of The Canvas Of Destiny & The Paints Of Fate God Gave To You At Birth - IMRAN™

Sure, it looks like I ran through a glue factory into a flower shop and then through a paint store as the cans fell off the shelves! Life, like art, is what you choose to see, what you make of it.

 I do not know how much time I have assigned to me here on Earth in God's ledgers of time. What I do know is this, we are all given a blank cavas of destiny when we are born. We are provided an infinite supply of paints that family, education, travel, experiences, and choices bring into our studio. 

What we do with them, what we envision, what we conjure up with our imagination, what structures we sketch in, what conclusions we draw, and what motions we go through, those are all entirely up to us. We choose the paints. We choose the brushes, the pencils, the erasers, even the magic markers and spray cans. Every day of life we are coloring in the story of our one and only one life. 

We are working on a singularly unique canvas in the entire universe and through all of the infinities of time. It is the ultimate irony that the painting is only “complete" when our finite time runs out, when it is the end of the physical world for us. Sometimes paintings are left unfinished compared to what we imagined, when we do not get all the time we thought we would. 

The truth is, even with a hundred years, we could never run out of the new shades, strokes and layers we could have continued to add. That is why it is essential that we paint the best of our intentions into existence every day. 

We must do that and live life to the fullest every day, make the world a better place every day, speak out against injustice every day. Whether the painting is considered a masterpiece by anyone is not important. What is important is to know that regardless of what and how we chose to live, and paint our story, we did the best we could have.

That way, no matter how much time we have, and how much of our envisioned image is completed, it will still have been the best use of the gifts of life we were given by Allah, the One God, creator of everything and beyond. 

At the end, that is the only viewer who can award us the ultimate prize…. knowing that we lived the happiest, most colors-filled, joyful, love-spreading life we possibly could have. Thank you, God. 

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(Pakistani Wedding) Ready, Set... Sit Together - Day 1 - IMRAN™

(Pakistani Wedding) Ready, Set... Sit Together - Day 1 - IMRAN™ 

Continuing with the storytelling of my precious beautiful sweet smart niece Iman's wedding day, once her parents (my sister and brother in law) had walked her to the stage, where the handsome groom was waiting for her, the young still a couple-to-be sat together smiling. I managed to catch those moments in this short video. Soon the mothers of both would join them on stage in preparation for exchanging their wedding rings.

© 2022 IMRAN™ 

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Lv LV Or Lv LV -- IMRAN™

Lv LV Or Lv LV _ IMRAN™, a photo by ImranAnwar on Flickr.

Love Lois Vuitton Or Leave It, one does have to appreciate the unique look and style of the LV Store on 5th Avenue in Manhattan, New York.

This photo was actually stitched from 6 iPhone 4S pictures on the iPhone standing right outside the building, later imported into iPhoto on my MacBook Pro, and then processed in Photoshop CS6, before being saved as merely a 2.2 MB file.

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