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[theinevitable]

my everyday uniform:

either cutoff jeans or this one pair of plain grey shorts I bought. t-shirt for a band or something. maybe just plain stripes. high-top nikes.
so yeah, I dress like a 13 year old most of the time.

normally I wear jeans instead of shorts, but it is really hot out.


I really, really want to buy this shirt.

[wombat]

Typical dress for me is a T-shirt, jeans, and sneakers.

Me too, and I have no plans to change.

Now that they make lots of shirts with funny things on them in the babydoll style, which looks like women's clothes, I feel like I'm dressed so much more appropriatelythan when I was younger.  So I think it's pretty clear, at my age, that this is as grownup as my wardrobe is ever going to get.

[pmcd9]

Hey Paul! It isn't just work I dress for, y'know. I go to grown up places and do grown up things outside of work and clothes are required there as well.

You can't service all of life in cargo shorts and a funny t-shirt.

I can dress up or down, but on my own terms not according to bunch of assholish fashion dictates.

[Choop]

my standard uniform is shorts and a t-shirt with flip flops or sneakers.

but then, i work from home and videoconference across the country. i have hats for when i oversleep.

[AugustWest]

Nice link, smick, and a good goal.

Hey Paul! It isn't just work I dress for, y'know. I go to grown up places and do grown up things outside of work and clothes are required there as well.

You can't service all of life in cargo shorts and a funny t-shirt.

Yeah, but you can easily give too much of a shit about how you dress or god forbid what jewelry you wear.  I'm looking at you, watch boys.

Solid dress shirt (white or blue), grey dress #####, tie.  Suit on days I go to court or if dress ##### aren't clean.  Fuck thinking about it any more than that.

[Arachno-capitalist]

I like dressing like a modern man who works for a living. Maybe its just my social circle or the popularity of Mad Men, but the retrosexual professional style is a welcomed development all around. The 24 year old who takes the time to take care of himself and his appearance comes out ahead of the 35 year old who just says "whatever" in the morning and rolls into work wearing whatever was clean that day. The internet-age casual attitude gives to taking one's self and occupation with less respect than it deserves. I would feel awkward running financial analysis in the same clothes I wear watching baseball. Its a state of mind thing for me at least.

[pmcd9]

Then why don't you talk about how you do that in a How To Dress thread instead of just calling us all asshole slaves?

Whatever, you rock on your working naked self.

At first I was just bragging that I didn't have to spend my days around a bunch of [deleted] that judge others by their appearance, but I was also giving advice.  This is a thread about giving clothing advice.  And this is it; don't be a slave, dress how you like and not concern yourself with what [deleted] people might think about it.

[jaydub]

I felt bad today rolling out to the car and touching my unshaven face.  True, my workplace has no official dress code for scientists, but damnit - a fellow's got to have standards!

Not worth missing the train over though.

[jay-ell]

My standard uniform -- and by the way, these are much harder to accomplish for women than men -- is a fitted, solid-color t-shirt (cut for a lady) and yoga ##### in brown, black, navy, or gray. In the summer, I may substitute a plain, knee-length knit skirt (never shorts); in the winter, I may layer a long-sleeved shirt under the short-sleeved one or add a cardigan or pullover in a variety of colors. I shop almost exclusively at Old Navy because they offer cheap basics that are comfortable and offer maximum range of movement for wrestling with kids.

I wear jeans on dates with Pedro, but yoga ##### are my go-to, mainly because my waistline has changed shape and size drastically seven times over the last six years (what with weight gain, weight loss, and two pregnancies) and I don't have to worry about whether or not they're going to fit this week, no matter how my weight fluctuates. When I get to a size I plan to stay at a while -- now that I'm done with pregnancies -- I'll probably buy more fitted #####, but until I hit the 135-140 range I'm not going to make any more clothing investments. I'm only 10 - 15 lbs away from that, so I give myself a year at most before I'm back to being what passes for smokin' hot in this house. (Just in time for Judy's trip stateside? Hope so.)

For dress-up occasions, I have maybe a dozen dresses, eight or so nice dressy tops and dress ##### in brown, black, navy, and gray. I have few skirts with patterns and prints but I don't wear them much. I have a lot of clothes, but most of them are "just in case." I've gotten more wear out of my boobie shirts and trousers since we re-instituted a biweekly date night.

[jay-ell]

I've also been reading http://putthison.com/, which is pretty much the most inspiring thing ever.

I dunno, some of the stuff on there...first, it's exclusively professional-man oriented, which is fine if you're a professional man, I guess. But mainly, it seems a little snobby about brands, and makes me feel like if I want to dress Pedro well at all I'm going to get a full-time job to support his wardrobe.

What I really need is a website that says, "Wear this ---> not that --->." You know, like the food book. I need something that says, "If you wear t-shirts all the time because they disguise your post-baby belly fat, you'd probably also like [insert fashionable alternative here].

[CortJstr]

Last month my cousin's kid was in town and we got into an argument because he only buys golf shirts with a logo on the chest and I only buy those without. He wants everybody to know exactly what brand shirt he has on whereas I avoid certain brands (North Face, I'm looking at you) for exactly that reason.

Of course I have no problem advertising bands/webcomics on my chest because I actively like those as opposed to them being the brand of shirt that was on sale, in my size, and not a color I already own.

[wombat]

This raises a really monumental question in my mind. Do you mean to say that people like your cousin like shirt brands in exactly the same way that you and I like comics and bands?

When I put it that way the answer is obvious, I guess, but it's truly mindboggling. I guess I must have always assumed that the people whose clothes had logos were sad dupes of the clothing company, that they had kind of been forced to wear that shirt and advertise the company because they couldn't find one without a logo that fit and was on sale and not in a color they already own.

[pmcd9]

FINE!  I put on some #####, are you happy now?

[jaydub]

Only if you promise they're bullfighter togs.

[robot_god]

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

You're pretty close, nowadays I only wear neon-yellow which in my mind is the color of the future.



The only problem is that if you wear neon-yellow in the day, it tends to attract insects like crazy.