Get yourself a good leather tricorne, and add a plume to it. She'll think either you've lost your mind, or that it is dramatic. Maybe a little too much so for the grocery store, but what can you do. We live in a society where a gentleman walking down the street with his sword on is arrested.
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-IronRaven

When a man dare not speak without malice for fear of giving insult, that is when truth starts to die. Truth is the truest freedom.