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Work It!

            Here I'm actually trying to move around and strike a pose. Unfortunately, everything I know about modeling, I learned from an Austin Powers movie. ("Yeah, baby!")

The idea here was to illustrate that Land's End shirt pockets are simply too small for large pens. Rather than hanging from the pocket's top edge, they rest at the bottom of the pocket and stick out precariously--like big guys leaning against a pre-OSHA railing, easily tipped into the oncoming traffic or crucible of molten steel or rotating knives beneath.
A mother kangaroo who let her joey hang out of her pocket like this would hear from the marsupial equivalent of Social Services.
I understand that the Land's End business model is to walk a tightrope, balancing low cost with acceptable quality; but when it comes to these petite pockets, they've erred on the side of low cost. It's funny that Duluth Trading Company shirts, designed for washing machine repairmen, and 5.11 Tactical shirts, designed for cops and wannabe paramilitary types, accommodate a Montblanc 149 better than Land's End Oxford cloth shirts.
Left to right: Montblanc 149 Meisterstück Diplomat, broad nib; Noodler's Ink Ahab demonstrator (i.e. transparent), Flex Nib; Noodler's Ink Neponset, "Forbidden City" colors, music nib; Lamy Al-Star in Ocean Blue, broad nib.
No, I don't routinely carry all four!

Photo by Vanessa Chau.

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Taken on: May 6, 2015

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Nikon D3300

Nikon 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR II AF-S DX Nikkor

Kilroy Airport Center

Jacob Dickinson

shirt

pocket

pen

fountain pen

nib

Montblanc

149

Meisterstück

Diplomat

broad

Noodler's Ink

Ahab

demonstrator

Flex Nib

Neponset

Forbidden City

music nib

Lamy

Al-Star

Ocean Blue

Land's End

Sail Rigger Contrast Collar Oxford Shirt

parking garage

railing

102D3300

Long Beach « less

Sets appears in: • Pen and Ink

Groups appears in: • Self-Portraits!

Camera: Nikon D3300, f/29.0, 1/15 sec, 34mm (=51mm), ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D3300
Aperture:	f/29.0
Exposure Time:	0.067 sec (1/15)
Focal Length:	34mm (35mm equivalent: 51mm)
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Shutter speed priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Scene Capture Type:	Portrait
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Microsoft Windows Photo Viewer 6.1.7600.16385
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