What is he into?
I gave my 18 son my baseball cards. This is a serious collection of Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Pete Rose rookie and so on. My wife gave him letters she wrote to him as he was born through like 6th grade. It was the first time I saw him like emotional from gifts. It meant a lot to him.
But then I gave him a book on college that he never used but then this book that he actually did. http://www.calnewport.com/books/straight-a-student/
Great book on time management and fun, quick read. I know it’s not what your looking for but maybe as an extra thing
@jym626 I know in our household it took my kids pushing my H to change his clothing options. In my H case it was in a few different areas. First was getting him to venture beyond the same 501 jeans he had worn since college. Next was getting him to size down in his t shirts and to buy some nicer shirts for casual wear. He is mainly a shorts and t shirt person. Polo shirts are work shirts for him so he won’t wear them for anything else. We bought him some short sleeve button up collar shirts but ones that have a straight hem that you would wear not tucked in. One was a white linen short sleeve that he said he didn’t want but now loves that he gets compliments whenever he wears it. For shorts we have been slowly replacing his Quicksilver cargo shorts with shorts that are more stylish and narrower in the leg. One great fabric is the material that can go from wet to dry quickly.
Where he is still out of style is he wears Hoka athletic shoes with shorts.
Maybe order him a few items you think would look good.
@MoonKnight - am guessing the pilot got his license before his vision started to go?? But he should have had to pass an FAA exam on a regular basis (can’t recall how often if not a commercial pilot) to maintain it!
@mom60 - agree that we are glad DH is open to feedback as to what to wear when going to work or out to dinner with friends. What he chooses to wear around the house or running errands or what have you- who cares. And while most restaurants are casual these days, its still nice to take an interest in how one looks. JMO.
Skydiving? I made two static line dives, just to prove I could talk myself into hanging off the wing struts of a gutted c-182 and letting go on command. Once the chute opened it was great. Twice was enough.
A couple of things women realize more often then men:
• As the say on Project Runway, “In fashion, one day you’re in, and the next you’re out.” When your favorite store (or these days, website) eliminates or drastically scales back a brand, it well past time to move on.
• Silhouettes that were flattering to your body when you were 15-25 are probably less flattering when you’re 40+, assuming the silhouette is even remotely in style
His Quiksilver cargo shorts need to be relegated to the same bonfire as my great-grandfather’s Members Only jackets. 
@skieurope You have invented a very clever way to determine any potential generational gap or divide. ?.
Did you, your dad, grand dad or great grand dad ever rock a Members Only jacket.
There may be some overlap here. As one may have worn it to the club or even your college events. The dad may have worn to the country club to be a bit hipper. lol.
A little late to the short sleeve button up shirt, but H wears one every day to work. He’s a CC physics prof, used to wear long-sleeve button up button down shirts complete with pocket protector. Then in the 2000s with the budget crunch, classrooms were hotter all year long and he switched to SS button up dress shirts. Some are oxford style, others plaid ; he wears with a flat-front dress pant (think nice Dockers). Must have pocket that he now uses for his phone. Always tucked in, because with his expanded waistline, it looks silly with the tails hanging out. He looked more professional with LS, but won’t go back, says he’s too hot. He’s 63.
I think a nicely tailored polo shirt would also look good, but he says those are also too hot. I buy his clothes (he’s red/green colorblind) and pick out the daily outfit. I always tell him you have to be better dressed than your students.
I’ve never owned one. I’ve seen photos of my dad in his early teens wearing one, so for the era, I guess he looked pretty cool. My great-grandfather, however, comes across more like the guy who whacked Tony Soprano than someone who could ever “rock” the look.
Or sell them on ebay. I know folks who look for things on there when they can’t find them in stores any longer. Not us for these though, H never liked cargo shorts of any brand. I don’t recall Members Only jackets at all. They were probably out there, but I never noticed.
I know I look for decent jeans and sometimes shorts for me on ebay. I don’t care for current female fashions at all as far as these are concerned. Shirts I can still find in stores. Sometimes Columbia has decent shorts since I prefer the hiking nylon(ish) varieties with pockets suitable for carrying things (cargo style). I need decent pockets in my jeans too and this is where current female fashions don’t suit me (that and being skin tight - hardly good for farm use, etc). I don’t ever want boot cut either. Farm stores sometimes have jeans that work.
I know several females who feel stores don’t carry anything they want to buy anymore so we simply wear older things. Stores are losing out on a fair bit of potential customers IME.
@Knowsstuff he’s an ultimate nerd who spends his free time programming computer games and reading random Wikipedia pages 
@yucca10. So pretty much a normal kid ?. Err… How did this get put into the “Random Questions” thread… Agh… This new look forum is confusing.
*I like short-sleeve button up shirts if they aren’t dress/work shirts; but rather have the straight across bottom. There’s some cool patterned ones out there.
*18 yr old quirky gift: I’ve bought things off thinkgeek dot com before . . . but no real ideas right now. What my kid likes is certainly not what I’d chose!
Question: would you stay at a job where you don’t agree with the company at all?
@bgbg4us I wouldn’t stay at a job if I disagree with what the company is doing and it goes against my beliefs. However if I can tolerate it, then I’d stick around until I could find another job.
@Knowsstuff I think this qualifies for a random question, certainly not a deterministic one
@yucca10. My bad. The new format is driving me crazy ?.
Since he is into Wikipedia would he enjoy a book on facts. They make different ones on all various types of subjects.
It’s so hard getting stuff for kids these days. What about something different like taking him to a concert or the like he wants to see?
@yucca10 Does he like clothes? If so, you can design a custom shirt to give to him for his birthday.
Would I stay at a job if I didn’t agree with the company? I guess that depends on how much difference I could make. If none, then no. If some, then perhaps.
Our school used a math program I detested for a few years. I stuck around because I had enough leeway (with years and being “loved” by students, etc) that I could do my own thing and folks would look the other way and my results were excellent. They’ve since switched off that program. I definitely feel I made a difference to kids I had and with my voice showing the shortcomings of the program. If I couldn’t do my own thing I’d have left unless we absolutely needed the money. Life is too short.
I also don’t shop/eat/donate/attend things I don’t at least mostly agree with. This isn’t exact because we’re all humans and no one really agrees 100% on everything, but if a business puts up a political sign I disagree with, well, there are other places I can go. We have businesses around us that don’t support (or even allow) various fundraisers (school and otherwise). I support those that do.
First of all, I think I have a member’s only in a closet somewhere (if it wasn’t already donated long ago). I’ll look. Will happily trade it for the cc thong
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One of my DS’s was heavily courted by one of the big e-cigarette companies, ostensibly to work on using them to cut down on tobacco use and/or look into alternative ways of using the devices to dispense thinks like asthma meds, etc.There was just no way DS could get past the basic use of this device.
My spouse is currently wearing a short-sleeve denim button down shirt, tucked in—we are currently in a suburb of SF. He is in his 70s. He also wears aloha shirts a lot—95% of the time untucked.
@skieurope is right that men here wear aloha shirts much of the time, even for formal occasions just short of a tux, for weddings, funerals, work, etc.
They do generally have to don a blazer for court (male or female). My S (age 31) lives in DC and mainly works in either long-sleeved button down shirts and polo shirts. For casual use, he wears T-shirts (he owns tons of them).
For a special birthday, possibly make a T-shirt quilt of favorite T-shirts? They can use 12 or so, I believe and you can choose colors, backing, what part of T-shirts to use, etc.
There are some 40+ people who are exceptions to this statement… as well as some 40+ people who are in denial that they really are not exceptions to this statement. (Median waist measurement for US men age 20-29 is about 15th percentile waist measurement for US men age 40-49. Median waist measurement for US men age 18 is between 5th and 10th percentile waist measurement for US men age 40-49.)