Jeffrey Eugenides' vest has a lot of nerve

Jeffrey Eugenides’ vest has a lot of nerve

Jeffrey Eugenides’ vest has 217 followers and counting. The billowing brown garment, which is featured in the now infamous Times Square ad for The Marriage Plot, has a lot to say about its owner and is not above making a few serious threats. Case in point: on October 24th it wrote, “Jeff now says he’ll only wear me once every nine years. We’re now in talks with Joyce Carol Oates. Looking for a more prolific wearer.” Would it dare? In a tweet about film rights on November 4th, the vest had the audacity to proclaim: “Won’t be able to come out of the closet until my agent negotiates a rigid rider.” Sheesh.

Find more sartorially-minded tweets by the ego-driven waistcoat here.

4 Comments

Bill Cameron at 1:43 pm on November 9, 2011
My vest was first.
Kathleen at 5:24 pm on November 9, 2011
Bill, we believe you. Was this your fishing/cameraman’s vest, by any chance?
Bill's Vest at 5:39 pm on November 9, 2011
I may be just a humble fishing vest from the provinces that has yet to appear on Times Square billboards, but let the record show that I predated Mr. Eugenides’s vest by five months on Twitter.
Also, I do my own publicity, which, in social media, is tantamount to doing your own stunts.
Further, the location “On Jeffrey’s Torso” contains an example of a gratuitous capital letter on “torso.” His tweets may be sartorially-minded, but at least mine adhere to the “rigid rider” of correct grammar.
Bill Cameron at 5:43 pm on November 9, 2011
My vest is quite full of itself, as you can see. Well, technically it’s full of me, I suppose, or at least my torso. Note I don’t dare capitalize the t in torso. The vest has ways of punishing me.