maybe Archie HATES the pajamas (maybe he thinks he's too tough and manly for pajamas, especially silk ones?)
Sometimes I wonder if he haaaates them (aside from the silk = sissy undertones) because they are tremendously tacky (maybe hideous but handsome=fancy and expensive=horribly nouveau-riche tacky), so Wolfe is basically putting Clara Fox in the equivalent of a clown suit? And saying gleefully to her, "Here, Archie has a clown suit you can wear"? So, more tacit needling of each other via Clara? I dunno, it's left just vague enough for me to always be like, "THERE'S SOMETHING GOING ON HERE."
And really, I'm with you, I don't buy the 'pjs from sister' either. I mean...unless she really really does not know him, and in that case, why on earth would he feel compelled to keep them? If she did exist and gave him such things thus proving she has no idea who he is, then obviously it isn't like she'd visit and he'd have to wear the pjs to prove he values her gift or something. Why some deserving man in the breadline wasn't gifted with the pajamas thirty seconds after their unwrapping will forever be a mystery. (Unless Wolfe did give them to him, because Archie does, as you point out, have a habit of squirreling away gifts from Wolfe...)
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Date: 2010-04-26 03:59 am (UTC)Sometimes I wonder if he haaaates them (aside from the silk = sissy undertones) because they are tremendously tacky (maybe hideous but handsome=fancy and expensive=horribly nouveau-riche tacky), so Wolfe is basically putting Clara Fox in the equivalent of a clown suit? And saying gleefully to her, "Here, Archie has a clown suit you can wear"? So, more tacit needling of each other via Clara? I dunno, it's left just vague enough for me to always be like, "THERE'S SOMETHING GOING ON HERE."
And really, I'm with you, I don't buy the 'pjs from sister' either. I mean...unless she really really does not know him, and in that case, why on earth would he feel compelled to keep them? If she did exist and gave him such things thus proving she has no idea who he is, then obviously it isn't like she'd visit and he'd have to wear the pjs to prove he values her gift or something. Why some deserving man in the breadline wasn't gifted with the pajamas thirty seconds after their unwrapping will forever be a mystery. (Unless Wolfe did give them to him, because Archie does, as you point out, have a habit of squirreling away gifts from Wolfe...)