Dressing for Dinner.

[matticus]

So no votes for Salad Dressing?

 

[bobzmyunkle]

I still always wear white shirts for work, even when working from home. Sometimes (to @Drago 's horror) with a suit but without a tie

Trousers or shorts?

 

[winjim]

I was rather sad to see the passing of suit and tie as standard work attire. I soldiered on for a while but eventually went with the flow.

I still always wear white shirts for work, even when working from home. Sometimes (to @Drago 's horror) with a suit but without a tie.

I'm not keen on white shirts and business suits but I do like wearing a shirt and tie, and work is the only chance I really get. It's not expected by any means, I'm the only one below management level who wears one, the bloke sitting next to me was in a Hawaiian shirt and shorts for most of last year. I've even started wearing a jacket but although I like the look it's mainly because our office is bloody cold and I need another layer.

I'd still put myself in a smart casual rather than a formal category though. I probably look like a biochemist, and it's geneticists I blame for the increase in casual wear, they went jeans and trainers a long time before the rest of us.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Forgot to add, his partner had obviously made an effort, without going over board. At one point I had been looking at the baseball cap man and I saw she was looking at me and I rolled my eyes, to which she did the same and smiled knowing exactly what I was thinking.

Last time a lady looked at me across a room I started to feel really pleased and thought " Still got it Kev " When she got up from the table I noticed that she was in a family group and I bore more than a passing resemblance to a gent who must have been her dad 🤔

 

[Alex321]

I was rather sad to see the passing of suit and tie as standard work attire. I soldiered on for a while but eventually went with the flow.

I still always wear white shirts for work, even when working from home. Sometimes (to @Drago 's horror) with a suit but without a tie.

I never did wear suit and tie for work.

Jacket and tie when I started, yes (plus shirt and trousers of course), but not matching jacket and trousers. And the jacket would spend most of the day draped over the back of your chair.

I also never wore white shirts regularly, it was always a variety of pale coloured shirts, usually blue, grey or cream, but I did have some green ones, and one or two white.

This was starting work in 1981, for Wales Gas, and then from 1984 for BT. Then from 1998 I went freelance for about 10 years, and by the end of that, hardly any of the offices I worked in expected ties. I probably last wore a tie to work in about 2005ish.

I still wear a proper shirt and trousers when in the office, but more casual attire when WFH (currently 2 days in office, 3 WFH most weeks). Most people in my current office wear T-shirt and jeans or similar even in the office, with shorts not uncommon in the summer, but I still prefer different "office wear" to home wear.

 

[Venod]

When I started work as an apprentice, a couple of the older guys wore a tie with a boiler suit ! later I worked in an engineering office it was probably about 50% a tie wearing office, I never wore one.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I also don't think anyone could call a polo shirt making an effort, its a t shirt with a flimsy collar on.

Will nobody think of the Mods?

 

[presta]

I don't much fancy dressing for dinner, I think at the very least I'd want some salad to put it on.

 

[oldwheels]

I sometimes wore a suit complete with tie to work on formal occasions but most often Sports Jacket with of course a tie.
Smart casual was aimed for and at that time it was standard type dress for management.
Nowadays I have seen managers in casual wear like tee shirts.
Disgraceful.

 

[Drago]

Mayor KHHAAANNNN! Never wears a tie, London is in chaos.

Jeremy "Mono" Kyle, never wears a tie, his TV show killed people.

Keith Starmer, often seen without a tie, once failed to return a library book on time.

Conversely...

Donald Trump, always smartly turned out, helps pornstars across the road.

Boris Johnson, inveterate tie fan, has done enormous good for the national wallpaper industry.

Ed Davey, tie wearer of the year 2019, champion of the downtrodden sub postmaster.

I rest my case.

 

[matticus]

I don't much fancy dressing for dinner, I think at the very least I'd want some salad to put it on.

what a good idea!

So no votes for Salad Dressing?

 

[DRM]

When visiting the local Sainsburys/Tesco express to purchase a sandwich for ones luncheon, the best attire is oily greasy overalls as the office minions in shirts, suits & ties part, just like the Red Sea did for Moses, allowing one easy access to select something DAMHIK.

 

[DRM]

Mayor KHHAAANNNN! Never wears a tie, London is in chaos.

Jeremy "Mono" Kyle, never wears a tie, his TV show killed people.

Keith Starmer, often seen without a tie, once failed to return a library book on time.

Conversely...

Donald Trump, always smartly turned out, helps pornstars across the road.

Boris Johnson, inveterate tie fan, has done enormous good for the national wallpaper industry.

Ed Davey, tie wearer of the year 2019, champion of the downtrodden sub postmaster.

I rest my case.

Or as they say, It's always men in ties that bring companies to financial ruin, not men in overalls

 

[Dadam]

I must admit to being torn. Sometimes yes it's nice to dress up a little for a special occasion. But eating in a hotel restaurant doesn't usually qualify. Also, like this thread any time there's (usually, but not always) older people harrumphing about declining standards and why don't people wear top hat and tails to pop to Aldi any more, I want to push back and default to jeans, scruffy trainers and band t-shirt, or similar.

I've always worked in an office, either for a tech company or a tech dept in a larger organisation. I wore a suit to work for the first 2 weeks, back in the 90s. Then I ditched the jacket and defaulted to basic trousers (cheaper and machine washable) shirt and tie. A few years later I ditched the tie and never looked back. The suit comes out for interviews, weddings and funerals only. These days I often don't bother with the tie for these either; ridiculous garment that serves no purpose.

These days for work it's mainly jeans and t shirt or hoodie. If on a client site I go back to a shirt, often still with jeans however, but if it's a first visit I might stretch to chinos and shirt.

 

[simongt]

I've never worn a DJ.

Had one made to measure when I was 19 and entering the hotel industry and was expected. Cost £19 which was two weeks money, so not cheap in 1972. However, I still have it AND it still fits - !