A few years ago I attended a niece’s wedding with our then-28-year-old son. Sitting with one foot across his knee as we waited to be ushered out of the ceremony, he told me he had just recently bought a new pair of black dress shoes – replacing the ones we’d bought him for his 8th grade graduation eleven years earlier. Not only that, he swore he was still wearing the same black trousers that he wore for that occasion.