Always a pleasant sight to go to Wal Mart and see slipper sliding groundpounders wearing pajamas with bed head. Out to spend what is on their EBT card. I avoid going down the aisle they are shopping because lots of them don't smell too nice.
I'm in sweats and a long sleeve tee. It's my uniform of the day. I need to go pull the CV axle from my wife's car. I will shop for the new part and do all the labor in the same sweat pants and long sleeve tee. No fooks given for whatever people think. I ain't a skinny kid that can bend like gumby anymore.
Fight fire, save lives, laugh in the face of danger.
I remembered reading a book by Charles Conerly( a Mississippian, former NY Giants? quarterback and the original Marlboro Man). Dress for Sucess. After a successful football career, he became a much sought after male model. He would change clothes 3 or more times per day and shave at least 2X. Taught me how to buy a navy blue blazer and use differing colors of pants and button down Oxford cloth shirts and ties to make a completely different look. It served me well as a school administrator. As one trainer from the State Dept of Ed some folks get in front of a classroom looking like they come out of a pea patch! If you want respect, do your part. Wife and I dress up for church and doctor appointments. Of course it’s been said that Delta folks wear pearls to the supermarket. In the Billy Graham biography, the family wore their finest clothes all day long on the Lord’s Day. MIL used to say dress for your station in life. I do know that if teens attend a prom, everyone tends to act better if dressed up. I’m old school and like to dress up. Last 4 years as asst superintendent of Ed, I had to drive a bus route. I still dressed up with khakis, shirt/ tie but wore overalls to protect my good clothes. You can dressl on a budget or one salary. Buy clothing on sale, off season, utilize thrift and consignment shops. I did and taught my minister son how to. Our Salvation Army thrift gets pressed starched pants from dry cleaning stores who donate them to the Army when not picked up. Designer ties are a Buck I find Dockers, Orvis, LL Bean and Land’s End stuff there. Used to be several garment factories in the state before NAFDA. Most operated a factory store where they sold over production and seconds. One in AR sold Tilley flop hats for under $5 Got all 3 sons one. Online has clothing bargains too.
Spent first 17 years of my professional career working for a company where you had a choice of a blue suit or a grey suit, a white shirt or a blue shirt, a blue tie or a red tie, and black wingtips. Took me 20 years after that job to stop wearing black wingtips to work or church. Today, work from home. Still have a uniform. Black Under Armor t-shirt, black UA gym shorts, black crocs... Do not own a pair of pajamas. Can't stand to see people wearing them in the stores. If I go off the farm, pull on a pair of Carhartt britches of some type.
first job out of college, I had to wear a suit - they would allow pinstripes but the stripes could be no thicker than a dime. Wingtips or capstone shoes - no loafers, white or grey shirt. I don't remember any rules about ties but I'm sure you couldn't wear any novelty ties. You could take the suit jacket off to go to the bathroom.
Sounds draconian by todays standards but they paid well and had great benefits. and I have to tell the VP's niece not to wear bunny slippers into the office now
When I started the job I have now 20+ years ago you could wear Khakis but now people wear cargo shorts and sandals. Even with all that, if I'm meeting a customer or an executive, I'm absolutely dressed in business attire. It pays to get decent clothes - high quality and good fit. I bought a Hart Shaffner and Marx suit at at thrift store for $18, later bought a Brooks Brothers at the same place. Like you said, you can dress well on a budget if you are so inclined. I buy shoes new only though, want to break them into how I wear a them, not someone else.
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have you paid your dues, can you moan the blues, can you bend them guitar strings
Years ago, we had a thread about clothes at work where some fancy-ass, stick-up-her-ass woman was excoriating anyone who didn't wear Armani or Christian Dior to work.
Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
I like to give this to my family every once in awhile and I have told this story to others when I think they’re missing the point…
My wife took her mom shopping a couple days ago because mom wanted some new nice clothes for church. See…mom likes getting compliments from the other “well-to-do” folks at her retirement home because she thinks it sets her apart but it doesn’t. I told her that she is trying too hard to impress the ass in the pew next to her rather than the Reason she’s there in the first place…..GOD DOES NOT CARE WHAT YOU WEAR TO CHURCH! God cares about what is in your heart, if conceit or pride are dominant in one’s heart there’s less room for the Lord! In church I’d rather sit next to an honest sinner in dirty pajamas with a pure heart than a rich man dressed to the Nines with a prideful heart….
One Sunday morning an old cowboy entered a church just before services were to begin. Although the old man and his clothes were spotlessly clean, he wore jeans, a denim shirt and boots that were very worn and ragged. In his hand he carried a worn out old hat and an equally worn out Bible. The church he entered was in a very upscale and exclusive part of the city. It was the largest and most beautiful church the old cowboy had ever seen. The people of the congregation were all dressed with expensive clothes and accessories.
As the cowboy took a seat, the others moved away from him. No one greeted, spoke to, or welcomed him. They were all appalled at his appearance and did not attempt to hide it.
As the old cowboy was leaving the church, the preacher approached him and asked the cowboy to do him a favor. "Before you come back in here again, have a talk with God and ask him what he thinks would be appropriate attire for worship." The old cowboy assured the preacher he would.
The next Sunday, he showed back up for the services wearing the same ragged jeans, shirt, boots, and hat. Once again he was completely shunned and ignored. The preacher approached the man and said, "I thought I asked you to speak to God before you came back to our church."
"I did," replied the old cowboy.
"If you spoke to God, what did he tell you the proper attire should be for worshiping in here?" asked the preacher.
"Well, sir, God told me that He didn't have a clue what I should wear. He said He'd never been in this church "
�Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politician.� �General George S. Patton, Jr.
I’m generally in jeans and a t-shirt. I’ll throw on a polo, a flannel, or light jacket if I go out. Only time I leave the house wearing shorts is if I’m going fishing or on vacation. I don’t own PJs and only wear sweats if I’m exercising.
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