Custom made

Jeez, Mum really aced it this year with the birthday card. It wasn’t a hard choice when she saw it on the shelf.

Well, well, well Luca, old bean. Nineteen, hey? There are some significant changes ahead and you will have our full support to try and assist you. But it will mostly be about growing up, and being more independent, and soaking up all that knowledge from the great imparters of knowledge in third level education. Their greatest skills will not be individual attention or the micromanagement of students’ progress or ability to follow. They’ll be the best in their field, and you’ll have to be the best at getting the most out of the experience.

And find time to scare people at night for the whole month of October, for that’s the first student job you have landed.
The moustache might help in your role of demented, blood-thirsty magician-psycho-killer (qu’est-ce que c’est?)

You have style (a lot of time and effort and resources go into it) but I am glad to see that you also have substance. Never lose sight of the latter. Don’t let it whither at the expense of the former.
Believe your old dad, who has throughout his life managed to find some balance between being a fashionista (I can hear Mimi snigger from here) and a philosopher.