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Conservative Business Dress

tutee

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Originally Posted by Manton
Shirt: Solid white broadcloth, medium spread collar, not too dashingly open, not too mafia-closed. Note the button cuffs. NEVER wear French cuffs.


Manton, I see that you are showing perfect shirt sleeve cuff beneath the suit... that is NOT conservative I think. Less than 1 in 50 men wear it like that. I would say it has to be some what half-assed to be genuinely conservative. You know... like one sleeve showing & the other one not. Or much better if none of them are showing.

But what else can you expect from a man who thinks wearing black shoes with brown suits is "ok"

That said, terrific advice in this thread.

my regards
 

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Originally Posted by GQgeek
...Who would have thought that manton was on meds? One day passes without them and look what happens...
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Hey Manton, is it ok for men to call me peaches? Or would that be my ruin in a conservative business environment?
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Peaches is ok - peaches though, well that is just plain wrong. Manton?
 

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Originally Posted by Con Biz Dresser
thkis thread is justr a mean joke but worse is thgat SUIT so many peopel here like to make fuun of JOS BANK but their suits probably cost half the price of thiis rumpl ed crap


Huh?

Had a bit to drink mate?
 

skalogre

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Originally Posted by rnoldh
Huh?

Had a bit to drink mate?


Actually I think he has not had enough to drink yet...
 

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wtf, I get away from the computer for a few hours, and you dickweeds are talking about commas and apostrophes instead of conservative business dress?
 

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What is the UCBD hairstyle?
 

LabelKing

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Originally Posted by GQgeek
...Who would have thought that manton was on meds? One day passes without them and look what happens...
devil.gif
Hey Manton, is it ok for men to call me peaches? Or would that be my ruin in a conservative business environment?
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Only if you're a Fatherfucker.
 

gehrig

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Originally Posted by Con Biz Dresser
I don't know how anyone could get the idea that conservative business dress has anything to do with a monochrome loo

Totally agree, a monochrome look stands out too much to be conservative business dress. Totally acceptable for business but it's making an 'i know how to do the plain but stylish look right' statement that's a bit too ostentatious to be conservative business dress.

This has been asked before, but what color shoes fit under the conservative business dress umbrella? Black only for UCBD (I assume), but how light of a brown (if any) can be used before conservative business dress is broken?
 

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Originally Posted by j
Leather single soles. The better for *****footing around superiors and strangers alike, while not drawing notice or criticism..

Unless your work environs are exclusively carpeted, you had best affix an unobtrusively thin layer of rubber to your soles so as to avoid the ostentatious clatter of leather upon marble or terrazzo surfaces.
 

Manton

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Originally Posted by tutee
Manton, I see that you are showing perfect shirt sleeve cuff beneath the suit... that is NOT conservative I think. Less than 1 in 50 men wear it like that. I would say it has to be some what half-assed to be genuinely conservative. You know... like one sleeve showing & the other one not. Or much better if none of them are showing.
This is a good point, and should be added to the conservative business dress canon.

But what else can you expect from a man who thinks wearing black shoes with brown suits is "ok"
Don't confuse the issue. I never said black shoes with a brown suit was conservative business dress. I said it was AAED (Apparel Arts Elegant Dress):

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Originally Posted by Manton

that is an ultraconservative lawyer tie. In fact, I got if from the general counsel to the John Birch Society in an ebay sale.


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