Phoebe worth reading as always. Two or three considerations:
1. "So of course this plus a lack of sleep (what they say about little kids and sleep is true) means that rather than solving major world problems or whatever in my downtime, I have been researching wool coats."
Kids plus early starts to the day (I worked for a European country for a bit because I could take 7:00 am meetings; I'd already been up for an hour, why not?) produces ends of the day that require cognitively undemanding tasks. This has remained true even as my kids have aged up--we went through a multi-year period where I had to change around the bedtime routine every six months, and bedtimes got later. Even on those nights where we watch something like an arthouse movie, that's about the absolute limit of what my brain can do.
2. There's something broken in clothing these days. I think Menswear Guy gets to this point with some regularity: there was a consensus on how things worked for a large part of the 20th century, but it ended in the 80s and was replaced by nothing. I remember distinctly feeling around 2015 that I could no longer shop where I did before, but had no clue what I could replace it with. I still don't.
3. But what I did realize from Menswear Guy and scrolling through a bunch of different stores is that I'm really not a suit-wearer, despite cosplaying as one in my academic years. (This is downstream of not liking the skinny trend which never really washed out after the 00s.) So there are varieties of casualwear that I cycle through, that I like, find comfortable, and (because middle aged white man) still convey that I am to be taken seriously. My winter outfit this year (good down to 20°, as low as it gets here) is Homefield t-shirt, LL Bean flannel, Aran Sweater Market Guernsey, lined work coat, Levis, and Oboz hiking boots--and makes me look more like the adult I am than wool slacks, a dress shirt and thin solid color merino sweater ever did.
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