Dan Levy

Interesting.

I remember my dad tells a story one time of he was leaving to go and work away for a few months.

And he was wearing jeans, a belt, a shirt, a tie, and a blazer.

And I kind of looked him up and down and I said, from the belt up, great.

From the belt down, gross.

And I think in my head, I was looking at kind of the formality of the upper half of his body.

And then looking at the jeans and feeling so disrupted by the casual nature of the denim that I suppose my young brain couldn't compute the mix and matching of that time.

I mean, it was the nineties.

So, you know, a shirt and tie and some jeans was sort of now I live for it.

Um, but apparently I was quite, um, critical.

Did he change?

I know he has.

But he didn't rush back into the house?

I don't think he did change, no.

I think he kind of looked at his child and said, what did I raise?

But I've run into my parents' friends who I hadn't seen in a long time and said, the last time I heard your voice, you were on the other end of the phone asking your parents what they were wearing at a dinner party that I was at.

Oh my God, that's so touching.

What a precocious little brat.

Stefano Pilati, he said that he changed a lot and he wanted his mother to change and was horrified when she came to school not in the clothes that they'd gone shopping to buy together when he was 10 or whatever.

And I think there's something wonderful about being held to your aesthetic account by your child.