Dressing for Dinner.

[simongt]

When you say dinner, I presume you mean tea.

I qualified this point in my original post.

 

[simongt]

As you call trousers 'slacks' @simongt I suspect you're a similar age group to myself.

Probably. In a previous 'life of higher standards' trousers were the bottom half of a suit and slacks were worn with either a sports jacket or blazer. But if you were a posh nob, then you wore 'cavalry slacks' with a Harris Tweed jacket - !

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I qualified this point in my original post.

That will teach me to skim read

 

[simongt]

A golf club near me has a strict dress policy.

Interesting that many golf clubs still have a pretty strict dress policy; like 'tailored shorts' and knee length socks.

 

[simongt]

a shirtless man with a big beer belly.

Plenty of those on the seafront in Tenerife - !

 

[Profpointy]

Most of all because it's not particularly accurate! I've been to a few around my neck of the woods which are in really cool old buildings, very clean with tasty food and excellent value.

I agree. They aren't "fine dining", but are clean and tidy, and serve decent wholesome food at an extremely reasonable price. It's not as if it's poor quality reheated processed stuff as it's a couple of slices off a freshly cooked roast joint, with plenty of vegetables. What's not to like?

 

[Profpointy]

View: https://youtu.be/iUuuaMMIjB0?si=PAPVSOiHj2ltj_wB

The late and much missed Jeremy Hardy made a quip about Harvesters. As part of the order taking they ask if you've been to a Harvester before as their system is a bit of a rigmarole, "It's not as if anyone would go a second time" Hardy was as far from being a snob as it's possible to get, but like him, I've never gone again either.

 

[tyred]

I take my fashion tips from a fashion icon

 

[Slick]

I take my fashion tips from a fashion icon

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Rab was a bam, Jamsey was the fashion icon the way he effortlessly paired gym shoes and sport socks with his best suit.

 

[Profpointy]

I tell you what I don't stand - business people wearing a suit without a tie. Why not just wear jeans and a T shirt and be done with it if that's their attitude?

It took me a long while to get used to the suit and no tie look and I was never really comfortable with it. Kind of OK with a semi casual linen suit or my tweed "shooting" suit (I don't shoot but it was sold as such) which I wore to work and got married in (with tie for my wedding obviously). No tie just looks odd in my very smart business pin stripe which I rarely wore, as with a tie it was just too formal for my later years working, and being a pin stripe isn't even suitable for funerals. I bought it at the tail end of the tie era, and even ordered extra trousers to extend its life !

 

[Profpointy]

Ties are OK if your shirt collar is the right size. For decades I (grudgingly) acquired a tiny collection of smart shirts but never acknowledged that my neck size was creeping up. The net result was that I suffered unimaginable torture on the extremely rare occasions when a tie was required.

Size matters.

They shrink in the cupboard over time. Even leather shrinks. When I got another motorbike after a 20 year lay off my leathers were far too tight.

 

[Drago]

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

In the good old days even the men in overalls wore ties.

 

[All uphill]

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.

Boiler suit with tie!

That's perfect. You've just helped me sort out my new image. I'm starting tomorrow.

 

[Profpointy]

Boiler suit with tie!

That's perfect. You've just helped me sort out my new image. I'm starting tomorrow.

Whilst it's great image and stylish I do have grave doubts of the wisdom of ties anywhere near machine tools or anything else remotely industrial.

 

[All uphill]

Whilst it's great image and stylish I do have grave doubts of the wisdom of ties anywhere near machine tools or anything else remotely industrial.

But it will be tucked in my fairisle pullover under the boiler suit!

The flat cap may be a bit of a hazard, I suppose.