it takes confidence

while outside eating my lunch this afternoon, i happened to look up from my book and noticed a very obnoxious hot pink delivery truck. that's right - there's no two ways about it. it was a pink cube van. hot pink. and it was a holt renfrew truck! all i could think (besides, damn, where's my camera!) was, "it takes a man who is very confident in his own masculinity to drive around the streets of downtown toronto in a hot pink truck." holts seems to be making hot pink their signature colour. check out their website to see the colour their delivery vans and paper shopping bags are this season.

i happen to work close to holts and my gym is close to holts so i end up seeing a lot of the holts-ites in the area. it's funny really - i don't know what it is about obscene amounts of money that makes you just look like a holts person. perhaps is the impeccable (expensive) clothing, perhaps it's the precise haircuts and make-up - but i'm starting to think it's the footware that probably ends up costing approximately what i pay in rent each month. maybe it's all those things combined. maybe it's just the fact that money gives these style mavens a dose of confidence, may it be real or simply an illusion seems to not matter.

my hair stylist moved to montreal a year ago and i've been lucky enough have had my hair cut by her twice since she's left. once she came for a visit and fit me in and the second time was in march when i visited montreal. the other cut i've had in the past year was at the holt renfrew salon. i made a grave error and thought that since i wanted a bob, that a place like holts should be the perfect place to get a classic cut with a modern twist.

and wow... was i ever wrong...

i ended up looking like a soccer-mum. *shudder* it was such a non-edgy, boring, safe, staid cut. not at all what i was used to after more than a decade of having my hair cut at coupe bizzarre. i was used to walking out after my cut and feeling the confidence that the amazing haircut would give me. that for a day or two my hair was perfect and looked exactly the way i wanted it to look. needless to say, i did not go back to the holts hair butcher. my hair is getting a little long and a little unruly, but i'm thinking i'll hold off for a cut until i go to montreal in october! hopefully i don't cave before then. and if i do - i'm wondering if i should go to vidal sassoon. i know, it's probably a mistake waiting to happen - but that's the thing about hair - it grows back! it's just the times when you're waiting for it to grow that are murder....

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