美國體育老師40年如一日 穿同樣衣服出現在學校年鑑上大綱

A gym teacher is retiring after a 40-year career - and taking his trademark yearbook outfit with him.

一位教齡40年的體育老師即將退休——他具有標誌性的服裝也將淡出學校年鑑。

Dale Irby, 63, accidentally wore the same clothes - a brown v-neck sweater and groovy white patterned shirt- for the school yearbook photo in both 1973 and 1974.

63歲的Dale Irby，在1973年和1974年不小心穿着同樣的棕色V領毛衫和時髦的白色花紋襯衫出現在了學校年鑑上。

When his wife Cathy, also a teacher, dared him to wear the outfit for the third-year running at Prestonwood Elementary in Texas, Mr Irby accepted the challenge - and ran with it.

Dale在德州的普斯頓沃小學教書。他的妻子Cathy也是老師，就問他敢不敢第三年還穿同樣的衣服出現在學校年鑑上，他接受了這個挑戰，然後這個傳統就繼續下去了。

Each time his picture was taken during his 40-year career, he reached for his old favorite threads.

在40年的職業生涯中，每次拍照時他都穿他最喜歡的這套衣服登上學校的年鑑。

He told the Dallas Morning News: 'I was so embarrassed when I got the school pictures back that second year and realized I had worn the very same thing as the first year... After five pictures, it was like: ''Why stop?'''

他對《達拉斯早間新聞》表示：“第二年拍完照後，看完照片後我才意識到自己穿着和去年一樣的衣服去拍照，我感到很尷尬。但是連續五次之後，我想：“幹嘛不繼續？”

He said that he wore the outfit because he had been instructed to smarten up instead of wearing his usual gym shorts for the school picture.

他說他之所以穿這套衣服拍照，是因爲學校要求他穿漂亮一點的衣服去拍照，而不要穿那些難看的運動短褲。

With each passing year, the frames change, the mustache gets a little bushier and the hair begins to grey - but the outfit stays the same.

每一年照片的框架都會改變，他的鬍子變得越來越蓬鬆，頭髮漸漸變白——唯一不變的就是他身上的那套衣服。

Mr Irby added that it is the same shirt he's been using for every photograph which he can still get into - as long as he sucks his stomach in a little.

他還說每張照片裏他穿的都是同一件襯衫，只要他把大肚子縮一縮，就都還是能穿得進去。

The school principal said Mr Irby's legacy would be that he taught all his school children the value of good sportsmanship and to respect others. The school gym has been renamed in his honor.

該學校的校長說，他給學生留下的遺產就是教會了孩子們運動精神的價值以及如何去尊重他人。爲了紀念他，學校以他的名字來重新命名學校裏的體育館。