Quote Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost
This caused no end of amusement in my youth. My American girlfriend of the time (the days when US marketing chaps used to wear outrageous braces - the English for suspenders ) came home with me to visit here in Ireland. She found a gentleman's tailors where she conceived of the idea to buy me some nice sober braces as a present.

The look of horror on the venerable tailor's face when she asked for "suspenders for my boyfriend" must have been priceless to witness first hand. I could not do so, as this kind of thing was not well thought of in rural Ireland of the time, and I had to leave the country for two decades.

Oh, priceless! That's one to trot out on occasion just to make sure the grandkids have the proper amount of abject horror and embarrassment at being descended from you.