Twitter users, reveal yourselves!

[LA Ute]

Yeah I'm pretty sure you would have been appalled at the dress standards at match.com.

Not if that's the culture the company decided on.

EDIT: The whole move to casual dress standards was prompted by the "dot-coms" in the late 90s. Law and accounting firms were so eager to please the twenty-something multi-millionaires who ran those companies that they started showing up to meetings with them trying to dress the way they did - black t-shirts and jeans, etc. It was kind of funny to watch. Anyway, the pendulum has already swung a bit back towards a bit more dressy standards. It will probably swing a little farther that way.

Meanwhile, get off my lawn!

[YOhio]

So I say to everyone I work with: Press your shirts, shine your shoes, wash your jeans (if you must wear them to work). Pay some attention to choosing colors that actually appear in nature - - and that arguably go together. Just don't look like a slob. And if you wear a shirt that has tails, for the sake of all that is decent and holy, tuck it in!!!

I bet you're a hit at the office parties!

[LA Ute]

I bet you're a hit at the office parties!

Maybe this will help you out:

[FMCoug]

Maybe this will help you out:

Truth time. That is really copied straight out of a1954 Improvement Era right?

[falafel]

All I said was this:

In my law office, due to casual dress it's often hard to distinguish young lawyers from mail room clerks. This is not a good thing.

I stand by my statement. This does not mean I don't like or respect you. (Well, not so sure about the respect thing....)

Why don't you try learning the names of your young associates and mail room clerks?

[old_gregg]

I'm guessing less pompous.

but a little bit gay. but good gay, like country western gay. jake gyllenhaal gay.

[YOhio]

Maybe this will help you out:

Manliness. Some of us were born with it, others need a chart.

[TripletDaddy]

Almost no lawyers (including me) wear coats and ties to work anymore, unless they have a court appearance or a meeting that calls for a coat and tie or maybe even a suit and tie. I like business casual dress and usually the dressiest I am is slacks, an open collar shirt, and a blazer.

To me the key is to give the impression that you care about your appearance in the workplace. It's a measure of your respect for the people you are with. The move to a more casual standard has resulted in a lot of goofiness, and every company that has adopted a casual dress policy will tell you they've had a problem with some people going too far with it. (Ill-advised Spandex, for example.) There still have to be some standards, and employers have had to figure that out.

So I say to everyone I work with: Press your shirts, shine your shoes, wash your jeans (if you must wear them to work). Pay some attention to choosing colors that actually appear in nature - - and that arguably go together. Just don't look like a slob. And if you wear a shirt that has tails, for the sake of all that is decent and holy, tuck it in!!!

In other words, look like you take your work seriously and respect the people you will spend the day with.

Now, that's not asking too much, is it?

This basically confirms that you are old. If the associates at your firm don't tuck their shirt in they don't take their work seriously.

You have made no mention of the actual work product of these associates. Perhaps the work product stinks because the mentoring and training is lacking.

[CardiacCoug]

Interesting thread. This is a point of controversy at my job as well.

When seeing patients in clinic, the older docs at least wear a jacket and tie if not a suit and tie. Some of the younger docs just wear scrubs or just a shirt and slacks with no tie.

There have been some comments in meetings from the older docs that they don't appreciate the way some of the partners "dress like slobs" when they do clinic and that it doesn't reflect well on the practice.

Our patients are mostly older, average age at least 65, and that's part of the reason I always at least wear a tie when I'm in clinic. I think that's what patients are expecting and I need all the help I can get in making a good impression.

[TripletDaddy]

Exactly. The older doctors.

If someone is sick or dying or whatever, who gives a crap if the doctor has a tie? The first thing I do if I'm in a doctors office is look to see where they went to school.

[SoonerCoug]

Exactly. The older doctors.

If someone is sick or dying or whatever, who gives a crap if the doctor has a tie? The first thing I do if I'm in a doctors office is look to see where they went to school.

I look to see where they went to residency. School is basically the same everywhere. I think residency varies more.

[FMCoug]

Exactly. The older doctors.

If someone is sick or dying or whatever, who gives a crap if the doctor has a tie? The first thing I do if I'm in a doctors office is look to see where they went to school.

I look to see where they went to residency. School is basically the same everywhere. I think residency varies more.

Either way the point seems to be that our generation seems to understand better not judging a book by its cover. While the old folks like LAU are superficial.

[LA Ute]

This basically confirms that you are old. If the associates at your firm don't tuck their shirt in they don't take their work seriously.

Says the guy who likes to wear a tie. Presumably you agree with everything else I said. Or do you also approve of unpressed clothing and ill-advised Spandex? BTW, if you keep it up with the straw men I may have to go all Jacob on you and start demanding that you show me where I said such-and-such a thing.

[LA Ute]

Manliness. Some of us were born with it, others need a chart.

Indeed, shirttails that blow in the breeze betray one of two mind-sets—both of which reflect poorly on the wearer. One is that you think flouting traditional fashion mores makes you appear coolly rebellious. I may be wearing this bespoke shirt, but no one can make me stuff it in my pants. On the contrary, liberated shirttails paired with a tailored suit look hopelessly jejune. On a 12-year-old Catholic-school kid, such a blatant sartorial middle finger might be endearing. On a 30-year-old it’s pathetic. If that’s the best way for you to demonstrate that no one can tell you what to do, perhaps you should shift your attention from your wardrobe to your career.

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[scottie]

Did 3D ever reveal his twitter name?