https://www.insidehook.com/article/style/fall-style-trends I kinda miss the white shirts and skinny ties and pocket protectors. (I'm wearing sweats and slippers at work today, but I have an excuse.)
the well-dressed engineer
Started by ●September 14, 2023
Reply by ●September 14, 20232023-09-14
On Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 6:31:08 PM UTC-5, John Larkin wrote:> https://www.insidehook.com/article/style/fall-style-trends > > I kinda miss the white shirts and skinny ties and pocket protectors. > > (I'm wearing sweats and slippers at work today, but I have an excuse.)I remember the Apollo mission shows. A bunch of white guys with white shirts, black skinny ties and black pants sitting behind rows of desks.
Reply by ●September 14, 20232023-09-14
On Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 6:31:08 PM UTC-5, John Larkin wrote:> https://www.insidehook.com/article/style/fall-style-trends > > I kinda miss the white shirts and skinny ties and pocket protectors. > > (I'm wearing sweats and slippers at work today, but I have an excuse.)I'm retired. But I have a very small company of other retired engineers. I usually wear an undershirt and briefs. We meet using Skype. Everyone wears whatever is comfortable. We have been doing this for years. I can't even imagine going back to a strict office environment. We're all well-dressed.
Reply by ●September 14, 20232023-09-14
On 9/14/2023 6:32 PM, John Smiht wrote:> I'm retired. But I have a very small company of other retired engineers. I > usually wear an undershirt and briefs. We meet using Skype. Everyone wears > whatever is comfortable. We have been doing this for years. I can't even > imagine going back to a strict office environment. We're all well-dressed.I made a point of turning down offers (and clients) from anyone with a "formal" work attire. I've worn either a black or white T-shirt and jeans, every day, for the past 35+ years. I used to commit to wearing the matching color socks but got tired of having that much "discipline" imposed. Many years ago, a friend gave me ~40+ of a particularly captioned T-shirt and ~30+ of yet another design. She presented them to me "back side first" so I *thought* I was being given solid black T-shirts -- then laughed when I "discovered" their captions. I take 7 of ONE style out every other Jan 1st, give them an initial wash, and wear one of those, each day, until the coming weekend's laundry, when they all go for a spin. As such, I *appear* to wear the exact same "outfit" *every* day -- though, in fact, no shirt sees more than 24 hours of consecutive wear. [Each shirt is, thus, worn ~100 times over the course of that 2-year period. An arbitrary number but they seem to hold up well for that much use.] I switch to the "other" style when the 2-year period ends. I've still got many year's supply, on hand! And, no one ever questions WHAT I will be wearing on any day... Eventually, I will run out and have to return to the new (plain) black shirts in my dresser drawers! For "formal" occasions, I have black dress shirts and slacks. Ties? What are those?
Reply by ●September 15, 20232023-09-15
On a sunny day (Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:32:59 -0700 (PDT)) it happened John Smiht <utube.jocjo@xoxy.net> wrote in <d5d36fdd-4edc-4c50-a593-6ff3d9e00e8dn@googlegroups.com>:>On Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 6:31:08 PM UTC-5, John Larkin wr= >ote: >> https://www.insidehook.com/article/style/fall-style-trends >> >> I kinda miss the white shirts and skinny ties and pocket protectors. >> >> (I'm wearing sweats and slippers at work today, but I have an excuse.) > >I'm retired. But I have a very small company of other retired engineers. I = >usually wear an undershirt and briefs. We meet using Skype. Everyone wears = >whatever is comfortable. We have been doing this for years. I can't even im= >agine going back to a strict office environment. We're all well-dressed.I remember in the seventies when I showed up at work with jeans.... got some comments... then everybody did it. Sometimes smelling like cannabis and marijuana.....after those sessions in the evening in my room... Stopped using drugs and alcohol in the late seventies, never wear a tie.
Reply by ●September 15, 20232023-09-15
In message <co57gipcuq14d679dkcpjudhibj1mc6tfd@4ax.com>, John Larkin <jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> writes>https://www.insidehook.com/article/style/fall-style-trends > >I kinda miss the white shirts and skinny ties and pocket protectors. > >(I'm wearing sweats and slippers at work today, but I have an excuse.) >Harris tweed sports jacket, checked shirt, knitted tie, fair-isle cardigan , brown corduroy trousers, was the de rigueur Engineer's dress when I started in 1972. Brown shoes don't make it. A variation on this . <https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-axz3gp0dm3/images/stencil/640w/products/ 3442/19813/Mens-Harris-Tweed-Jacket-Oat-Brown-MJ72-min__11653.1668073120. jpg> Oh and leather elbow pads. Brian -- Brian Howie
Reply by ●September 15, 20232023-09-15
On Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 7:31:08 PM UTC-4, John Larkin wrote:> https://www.insidehook.com/article/style/fall-style-trends > > I kinda miss the white shirts and skinny ties and pocket protectors. > > (I'm wearing sweats and slippers at work today, but I have an excuse.)That junk doesn't even rise to the level of 'business casual.' It's just a hodgepodge of casual/party/recreational from retailers who agreed to pay that dumb pseudo-magazine a commission on sales. Slip-ons are a superior alternative to loafers and they look like shoes- that could be because they are shoes. There's no excuse for anybody buying organically derived products. That especially includes things like leather, wool, cashmere, camel hair, silk, fur, and innumerable other ancient and barbaric materials. People consider synthetics to be cheap. Well- duh- that's why they were developed: to cost less, far less than the material they were intended to replace. In all cases the synthetics are superior.
Reply by ●September 15, 20232023-09-15
On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:30:51 -0700, John Larkin <jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote:>https://www.insidehook.com/article/style/fall-style-trends > >I kinda miss the white shirts and skinny ties and pocket protectors. > >(I'm wearing sweats and slippers at work today, but I have an excuse.)Hell, I miss shirt pockets. Why am I the only one in my neighborhood with his shirt tucked in ? RL
Reply by ●September 15, 20232023-09-15
On Friday, September 15, 2023 at 11:56:15 AM UTC-4, legg wrote:> On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:30:51 -0700, John Larkin > <jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote: > > >https://www.insidehook.com/article/style/fall-style-trends > > > >I kinda miss the white shirts and skinny ties and pocket protectors. > > > >(I'm wearing sweats and slippers at work today, but I have an excuse.) > Hell, I miss shirt pockets.They want you to keep all that stuff in the cargo pants pocket.> > Why am I the only one in my neighborhood with his shirt > tucked in ?People with a midsection obesity problem look way better, or maybe less bad, with the shirt untucked.> > RL
Reply by ●September 15, 20232023-09-15
On Fri, 15 Sep 2023 11:55:52 -0400, legg <legg@nospam.magma.ca> wrote:>On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:30:51 -0700, John Larkin ><jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote: > >>https://www.insidehook.com/article/style/fall-style-trends >> >>I kinda miss the white shirts and skinny ties and pocket protectors. >> >>(I'm wearing sweats and slippers at work today, but I have an excuse.) > >Hell, I miss shirt pockets. > >Why am I the only one in my neighborhood with his shirt >tucked in ? > >RLPocket tees are great for holding glasses. I'm super nearsighted, a great adaptation for being an EE, but once in a while I need to see a whiteboard or something.
