Senor Suave: Julian Diego

My grandfather passed away 20 years ago. I always thought of him as "the man". He just had this way about him, he was just suave. He had something else going for him also, he was a Spaniard. There's just something about that word, Spaniard, that just drips with suave. He was a man in my life that I thought was seriously smooth.

I was young when he died and unfortunately I didn't get to spend a lot of time with him. Recently I have been having memories of him wearing a fedora. This led me to wanting to get a fedora hoping that it would make me half as smooth as he was. Last Thursday, after a month long search I finally found the fedora for me. I put it on and I just knew it was my style and my Grandfather Julian would look so good in it. I purchased it.


I got home and I called my mom and started to tell her about my hat and she asked what a fedora was. I explained that it was the kind of hat grandpa used to wear and she commented that grandpa never wore hats. I was so bummed. Either I just imagined him in a fedora, or I thought that he would've looked great in one. I guess either way my fedora reminds me of my Grandfather Julian. I guess it's a little odd having a memory of something that never happened, or something reminding me of someone that there was never a conection made with, but I don't mind. Whenever I throw on my fedora I will think of Julian Diego, Senor Suave, and I will ask my friends to call me Julian, after all what better nickname is there to call a man in a fedora.