Do you care how your coworkers dress? Does the decline of formality of dress bother you? - Page 9

Wait, if I'm reading that right, people regard white athletic socks as more appropriate for work than a suit?

Yeah, I don't care if IT people dress in t-shirts and jeans, but I hate that poor excuse. I get it constantly from my co-workers. Shirts can be washed, you know. Sometimes they're even less expensive than hoodies. I crawl under desks in coat and tie, and I've always been able to get the dust off. Heck, I spilled an entire pink toner cartridge on a pair of flannel pants and they could be recovered without even going to the dry cleaners.

Something about this thread struck me as familiar, so I did a little searching and found a necro-thread written in 1813 entitled "Doth the Decline of Dryss Bother You?" No joke. Lots of good stuff there -- Vox was really at the top of his game. Here's a trechant post from a forum member named "Beaubrummel17":

Well played - Thought thread had died a natural death but you brought it back and did so with style (pun intended)

Yes. Too lazy to think. Thinking is not effort. And if it is, well, then, dressing is the least of their problems.

Lounge suit. Formality of the lounge suit?

I'm guessing if this forum existed 90+ years ago somebody would be lamenting all the dress down types in lounge suits.

I'll go out on a limb and say this thread is a combination of US view point. A lounge suit has become almost formal wear fit for court. The fact that so few younger people ever see even a jacket.

I wonder what the view point is of people that went to schools requiring a jacket.

That is a very interesting point. My son goes to a school that requires a jacket and tie. He ties his own FIH every morning and must wear the jacket at all times in school. While time will tell if he will end up with a negative reaction - so far he seems to accept it as "normal". Also seeing me where a suit/tie every day probably makes him feel more okay with it.

Can any others here comment on their own experience of having to wear a jacket/tie to school and whether this did/did not influence the level of formality of their own dress when they started working?
Edited by bertie - 3/4/13 at 7:52am

The code & systems teams wear whatever they like. As far as I can tell all-black T-shirt and cargos is basically coder uniform.

 

I wear better than... well, the next three levels of management, TBH.

 

Hell, I dress better on dress-down Friday than my direct boss does Monday through Thursday - mostly because he seems to think polyester shirts with breast pockets, no tie and cheap brown brogues constitute office wear.

"Do you care how your coworkers dress? Does the decline of formality of dress bother you?"

 

 

 Naw, not really. Most of them couldn't dress well if they wanted to...

 

 

 I like trying to dress well. I like clothes- it's my hobby.