EDIT: One time I ordered from Daylight while traveling, and arranged for the shirt to meet me at Baltimore. Came right to my hotel, no problem.
What was the situation here? "Oh geez, here I am 3,000 miles from home, about to visit the B&O Railroad Museum, and I just realized I didn't pack anything appropriate to wear ... Oh! Of course, I know, Daylight can save me!"
I was thinking the same thing I mean I just can't see a situation where I was in a hotel on the other side of the country and was like gee its time for a new t shirt lol Whooz please do tell lol.
Well if you MUST know...
It's kind of a long story, but since you guys seem to have nothing better to do than question my shopping techniques you apparently have time for it.
When I bought my first computer and went online from home (1998) I immediately recognized the internet's vast potential for the noble pursuit of chasing women. Within hours of intially logging on to AOL I was receiving IMs outta the blue. Yappy guy that I am I was always happy to talk. Then I discovered chat rooms, and it was all over.
Back in my Angry Samoans punk rocker days I handled the fan mail, and used it mainly to line up girls in cities where we were gonna be playing. Why not use the internet the same way for my travels?
So I did, and continue to do so, albeit on a more limited scale these days.
Since I didn't limit my chatting to U.S. rooms, and speak some German, I became close to a girl in Germany - talking on the phone, sending snail mail, exchanging gifts, and like that.
We eventually planned an east coast vacation together, and I met her when she arrived at JFK. A couple days in NYC, Lakeshore Limited to Chicago for a few days in that toddlin' town, LSL back to NYC. She'd never been on a train before, so got a crash course on the trip: Amtrak, LIRR, NYC subways, CTA, South Shore Line (NICTD), Metra, D.C. Metro, MARC, B&O Museum. The only day we didn't ride at least one train was a day off at Chicago (actually Franklin Park, where we stayed) to rest and do laundry.
We'd mostly been eating fast food. Since I do all my own cooking, and she did too, fast food was an unusual treat for us. However, we decided while in Chicago that on the southern leg of our trip, D.C./Baltimore, a romantic dinner at a nice restaurant would be in order.
And I didn't have a THING to wear!
Sure, I could go to any store and get something, but that would be
wrong (and way too easy).
So instead I went online to Daylight Sales and ordered the black gabardine dress shirt with the Daylight logo (mentioned in a post above, and seen in use on Friday at the L.A. Gathering) to be quick shipped to meet me upon return to New York (hotel out in Hicksville on the LIRR). An e-mail from Dave at Daylight Sales informed me that he had sold out of the shirt the previous weekend at a 4449 excursion, but would have more in a couple days. We exchanged a few mails almost in real time trying to figure out an alternative (I wanted that shirt!), finally hitting on the shirt meeting me at Baltimore.
So it did, and I was able to dress decently for a romantic, upscale dinner of excellent crab cakes, other fine dishes, and fine wine.
I had already been a regular customer of Daylight Sales, and with Dave's personal assistance in that situation I became an enthusiastic one, which is why I push the outfit from time to time. BTW, as part of the same order I got the girl a "Women in Railroading" shirt (Bargain Corner), and an Amtrak logo shirt.
Does that answer the question?
EDIT: At the B&O Museum I wore an aircraft shirt (pretty good collection of those, too). Guy says, "What's that on your shirt?" "F-18." We started talking planes in a railroad museum. Turned out he was a museum docent, and he gave us a sort of behind the scenes tour of the shops and other stuff that most visitors don't get to see, as well as a personalized tour of the equipment out in the yard. You never know! This was all a few years ago, before the roof collapse.
