How to Dress

[Choop]

if they're cut like khakis, they're too casual for an interview at an office. slacks cut like jeans are a perfect match for a shirt and jacket.


also: if the shirt has buttons on the collar, don't wear it without a tie, and change out of it before sunset. better to avoid them altogether.

[wombat]

Pleats look bad on everyone, and this deserves its own thread.

(Wombat is MAD WITH POWER.)

[jay-ell]

I love it when Wombat goes mad with power. It makes me feel safe and warm, just like I did when Jough ruled the board with a strong pimp hand.

[wombat]

They want to promote Wombat to assistant manager at her part time job. She's practicing being bossy.

But seriously, no pleats.

[theinevitable]

I would never wear pleats.

I used to hate shirts with button-down collars, and now I think I have come to peace with them. Not in a formal setting, though, like... plaid shirts. Plaid shirts with button-down collar.

this guy (drunkenly) stole my short-sleeve plaid shirt, and I want it back so much. It has been well over a year, so I guess I'm never seeing it again.

[Doc]

On the nature of jackets I will say it varies hugely depending on venue. I like wearing jackets and I like wearing suits but the general dress code at most places I've worked is long sleeve shirt and tie sans jacket, often with the shirt sleeves rolled to just below the elbows in summer. Even the consultants at my hospital dress like this, though the full suits do tend to get broken out for meetings or important events. This is probably partly because it's hot as hell around here so a jacket is less of a good idea.
Anyway point being, you can look classy without a jacket, especially if you stick to tans and browns.

[Choop]

Maybe I'm old school, or whatever you kids are calling it. Maybe I'm just old. Hell, I don't know. All I know is the tie comes off before the jacket. And cuffed ##### are for teenagers who don't know any better and crusty old southern fools who ought to.

[theinevitable]

which reminds me, why isn't *****_god in here posting about how he only wears jumpsuits made of that astronaut cloth.

[greenkoolayd]

this is good stuff to know.  im filing it away in the memory banks , for real.  i am studying for a profession that mostly takes place in an office-type setting, therefore, i will have to invest in work clothes that are not steel-toe boots/work #####/a t-shirt that i dont mind sweating in and getting dirty.

its going to blow my mind not hearing nigger jokes every day(although those attitudes/ideas can be found in every sort of work place).

[jay-ell]

its going to blow my mind not hearing n***** jokes every day(although those attitudes/ideas can be found in every sort of work place).

They tell the same jokes in offices, except they use the word "African-American." That's how you can tell the racists went to college.

Have you heard of the phenomenon (it might just be in the southeast) of teenagers calling black people "Canadian?"

Pedro was in a fast-food place one day and a black family walked in, and a table full of white teenage fucktards started talking loudly about how much they hate Canadians, go back to Canada, etc. Nobody else flinched, but Pedro, who was already aware of this bizarre phenomenon, was so disgusted he walked up to their table and called them out on it.

I don't know what the hell is wrong with people. Our county is 20% black and 8% other minorities; how do you go to school in a racially-diverse community and still think it's OK to be a bigoted piece of shit?

Sorry. End of rant.

This thread is making me think that Pedro needs some jackets.

[side_show]

That's the first I heard of that one.  I should start calling myself African American just to confuse the situation all the more.

[Arachno-capitalist]

If someone told that kind of joke where I work, they would be branded as some kind of classless troglodyte. That person would be invited to less meetings and insulated from clients. So I guess it is not acceptable in every work space.
If someone wore pleats, they would be branded as someone who has somehow managed to ignore every bit of male fashion in the past 10 years and therefore unprofessional. Yes, knowing how to dress yourself is part of being professional.

[jay-ell]

True, but A-Cap, you work in a place where you interact directly with customers. Most of the people at Pedro's company don't. And most of the people in his division are programmers and statisticians, so the ability to function socially within a group cannot be assumed.

[CortJstr]

Man, I am so glad that the dress code at my office is basically jeans and golf shirts. We don't even technically need to wear collared shirts at all due to poor wording in the dress code but most people do Mon-Thurs. And most employees seem to think the "no shirts with logos or writing" rule doesn't apply if the Redskins play that night. Or won the night before.

Also: would clothing questions in actual Trivial Pursuit be in WC or Sports & Leisure?

[Choop]

fashion is an art, but style is a science. tossup.