Raspberry Swirl

"He wears nice ties, sometimes," noted an acquaintance of mine earlier today.
"He also has funny ones," she added, which I thought was more on the mark.

I didn't ask her if she meant funny(strange) or funny(haha): Mahendra's ties switch with ease between the two categories, often occupying both simultaneously.

Tonight I found not only his tie, but his entire outfit, 'funny'.

His jacket was a shimmering silver (although perhaps that was just my television; it could have been merely a light grey), and curiously striped. The stripes themselves gave the effect of standing out from the jacket, reminding me of those hologram pictures that were all the rage in the early '90s. I had to keep blinking my eyes to see if they would go away, but they didn't.

I know quilted jackets are in this winter (again) - but an embossed jacket?! I'm not quite sure that Mahendra is on trend with this one.

Then there was the so-not-subtle stitching detail around the buttonhole on his lapel, which I suspect could become a trademark of Mahendra's style. This time it was in black (and when I went up close to the screen, there appeared to be white stitching, around the black stitching, around the buttonhole). It matched his microphone, but did not go at all with the light tone of the jacket.

Mahrendra's shirt was plum-coloured, and the most mundane part of his attire. It only gets one sentence. Or two, or three...

The tie itself? It was a showstopper! My guess is it was chosen in a well-intentioned attempt to match the jacket, the shirt, and the microphone, all at once. I can't swear I remember all the colours (my eyes were bamboozled at the time), but I noted tones of royal purple, grey, black, white, light pink, and maroon.

It looked like raspberry-swirl ice cream, when it is still in the container before you have disturbed its pristine, striped glory.

Sometimes I feel as if Mahendra is teasing us all...

[See also "Goeie Genugtig..."]

It's snowing here, Live!

I have an 80 000 word thesis to write before the morning, so quickly: The Mahendra was spotted through a light snow (coldfront moving in) in his black jacket, white shirt and a not too obnoxious pink tie. AT, however, is deeply ambivalent about it, and the crimson buttonhole, AT says, clashes a bit with the tie.

AT was also concerned with a certain ashened look to The Raghunath's eyebrows. I couldn't discern it through the snowy set. Perhaps, I mused, he had to contend with Joanne's make-up artist.

Back!

Mahendra was spotted last night. What a sharp-looking image he cut in his black jacket, white shirt and deep red tie. Am my eyes deceiving me or did I notice a slightly more modest knot in that tie?

My own bloggocism of course wants me to believe that the Mahendra might be checking in here (who hasn't googled themselves, ey?), and perhaps one should be more supportive of his attempts at moderating his style - if a slightly modest knot is evidence of such. But Mahendra might be alarmed to learn that ties are going in a completely opposite direction: the stringy bit is making a comeback, according to a piece at IOL.

I am alarmed. Give us modest ties, not spectacles veering from too wide to a piece of string!

LIVE! LIVE! LIVE!

Mahendra!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here's AT on tonight's spotting: "Oh no. That Pick'n'Pay's Choice Mixed-berry fruit juice shirt is not his colour. Makes him look pallid. Hate his tie. It's a disgrace."

Dis grys, I say. Aloemenum.

That's that plummy shirt with that aluminium jacket. Silver shivers... it's the first noticed repeat performance by the Raghunath! I'm sure I missed many, but this is one not difficult to spot.

BTW, one for the statisticians and egos: Readers or bots from as far afield as Modesto and LA, CA, as well as Babson Park (?welcome, I guess?), yes, that's Babson Park, FLA, have pondered Mahendra's fashion felonies. In London too, a reader-bot looks in on Mahendra's fashion faux pas. Durban has a bot or two as well.

David Bullard, alas, has not signed on.

Goeie genugtig! Is dit aloemenum?

[Good Lord! Is this aluminium?]

That's the colour of his jacket, people, Live! at lunch. With that deep plummy shirt and plummy striped tie. My gawd! It's lunchtime Mahendra, not disco-time!

A fleeting glimpse...

...that lasted about 15 seconds. Mahendra looked good, as if he was glad to see us. His tie, however, was disappointing. In my consternation I managed to make out something in red and black diagonal stripes. Could he be going to the tote after work tonight? A tie like that can only lead to betting on horses.

Mahendra does Columbian

Live! Live! Live! Mahendra spotted in his black jacket with crimson buttonhole, his buttermilk shirt and a tie that would make Juan Pablo proud: red, gold/yellow and blue! A pity Massa won the Bahrain F1 Grand Prix. Someone tell Mahendra Juan has moved to Nascar.

I saw Mahendra

Live! Mahendra is here, in a lovely grey jacket! Oh how I love that jacket! The shirt... well, a fellow-watcher thinks it's either white or a very light blue; I think it's a very light lilac. Shirt and jacket in my mind well-suited to function, although Mahendra could hide some more cuff.

The tie. What a tie. Broad stripes of grey, pink, gold, blue and somehow filled with special effects. A fellow-watcher says it looks like the northern lights.

...and ever, Live! but Elusive

That's right, Mahendra's Ties comes to you Live! tonight, but our man is elusive still. Instead, Joanne Joseph in... erm, well I don't care. I want Mahendra!