“No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.”

- Sir Frederick G. Banting

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Thoughts run on sneaky legs, and manage their way through formalities armor, but ideas are slower things, not made for sneaking. Ones’ got to invite them in you see. Invite them in and wait patiently for them to string themselves inside before you close the door; got to wait while they untangle themselves before you sit down to business. Thoughts will have come done their business, had tea and gone before you realize they were there at all, but you’ve got to be patient with ideas.

Dress clothes offer up distractions, one forgets to open the door, or to hold it open long enough. Ideas need room to grow and to settle themselves, room they’ll never find inside the silk confines of perfect stitches, if they manage to get in at all.

Ideas trickle right past formality, assuming they’re not welcome there. Take off the suit, pick up a hot tea, and sit down for a while and wait. Then they’ll come.