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Conservative Business Dress

69clyde

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Originally Posted by Manton
You are clearly NOT CONSERVATIVE. Those are not slash pockets. They are besom pockets. Enjoy your Armani, Eurotrash.
besom pocket
-noun
1. an interior pocket with edging or stitching around the opening.
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Originally Posted by 69clyde
besom pocket
-noun
1. an interior pocket with edging or stitching around the opening.
wrong


I don't know what your source is but ask 10 tailors at random what they think a "besom" pocket is and get back to us.
 

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Originally Posted by Xiaogou
I heard that Vox is hosting a party for Manton's 30,000th post as long as it is about Vox!
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Vox Voxsartoria vox Dei.
 

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I have taken conservative business dress to new levels of greatness (drabness) in recent weeks.
 

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Not uniquely - you had on a tan suit in late September, IIRC. CONSERVATIVE? I'm not sure.
 

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Autumn conservative business dress ties? I say yes.

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One on the left, no way, on the right, not really. But much, much closer.
 

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Originally Posted by Manton
One on the left, no way, on the right, not really. But much, much closer.

Ok, let's say you are interviewing for a conservative firm, how non-conservative can you dress and not look like a jerk? How about a gray, or navy windowpane suit, white shirt, solid tie? Yay, or nay?
 

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Originally Posted by patrickBOOTH
Ok, let's say you are interviewing for a conservative firm, how non-conservative can you dress and not look like a jerk? How about a gray, or navy windowpane suit, white shirt, solid tie? Yay, or nay?

Windowpane for an interview strikes me as a seriously bad idea. Certainly, it is not conservative business dress.
 

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Originally Posted by Manton
Windowpane for an interview strikes me as a seriously bad idea. Certainly, it is not conservative business dress.

How about a solid gray, however... wait for it... SB PEAKED LAPELS?
 

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Originally Posted by patrickBOOTH
How about a solid gray, however... wait for it... SB PEAKED LAPELS?

No.
 

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Originally Posted by Manton
No.

SB peak lapel isn't conservative business dress? Where does it fall then? At a minimum it is more formal than the notch.
 

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