Wishful thinking
I’m giving my father two lightweight cotton long sleeved crewnecks, which he can never have enough of on construction sites, for his birthday. Since the move to Southern California, this architect/designer turned entrepreneur and large scale renewable energy-project manager now wears jeans to the office. Not ties, which I used to pick out every year when he worked in New York City.
I wish I had been able to get him this:
Some substance. Some style. Some social commentary 
We all need dreams to strive for….