Re: Dress Code/from a TieGuy

["Wing, Michael J" <mjwing -at- INGR -dot- COM>]

I'm kind of an in-betweener on this issue.  We used to have a dress
code.  Men were required to wear dress shirts and ties.  Jackets were
optional.  The Developers hated it.

The instant that a casual dress code was instituted, the Developers
could not rip the ties off fast enough.  Many started wearing
billboard-message tee-shirts (such as "Jerry Garcia Lives"), thread-bare
Levis, and farmer clothes.  The Developer who was in the next office to
me wore dirt-stained dungarees that looked like he crawled under a fence
on the way to work.

At the time that the dress code was relaxed, I was not in favor of it.
I thought that it lowered the air of professionalism.  However, I did
find myself loosening the tie and rolling up the sleeves by early
afternoon.  It's not Pheonix, but Alabama gets mighty hot during the
summer.  I enjoyed dressing professionally (still do), but after 3 or 4
hours, I prefer to be more comfortable.  Anyway, I like having the
option to dress down.  I vary my clothing.  I'll wear a tie one day and
the next day I'll wear Dockers and a Polo shirt.

I also have another motive in dressing more casual these days.  I took
up weight lifting 5 times a week starting last August and now I can't
keep my collars buttoned.  (I've got a section in my closet containing
my "fat-boy" pants in case I backslide.  The shirts I can still wear as
long as I don't keep the collar done up for too long)  I am slowly
replacing my dress clothes, but as brought out in this conversation,
it's expensive.

Mike Wing

Michael Wing (mjwing -at- ingr -dot- com)
Principal Technical Writer
Intergraph Corporation; Huntsville, Alabama
http://www.ingr.com/iss/products/mapping/
(205) 730-7250

"But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good"
-- Paul (1 TH 5:21)


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> From:         Donald White[SMTP:DonW -at- DATAFOCUS -dot- COM]
> Sent:         Tuesday, July 22, 1997 11:02 AM
> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:      Re: Dress Code/from a TieGuy
>
> The person who perpetrated the tie on mankind should have been
> sentenced
> to hang until dead. The rest of are under the same sentence.
>
> Why do we want to establish differences, such as "chiefs" and
> "Indians?"
> I was a Chief in the Navy, and seldom wore a tie (unless I couldn't
> get
> away with it).
>
> All of us in this shop wear jeans and T-shirts, and no one has any
> difficulty recognizing their supervisor and the company officers.
>
> Donald H. White
> Senior Technical Writer         donw -at- datafocus -dot- com
> DataFocus, Inc.                         http://www.datafocus.com
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim McAward [SMTP:jimmc -at- CHYRON -dot- COM]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 1997 11:53 AM
> > To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> > Subject:      Dress Code/from a TieGuy
> >
> > Dressing like the Chiefs helps distinguish you from the Indians, and
> > does
> > wonders for career advancement.
> >
> > Also:  I wear a shirt and tie so they don't ask me to unload trucks.
> >
> > Besides - ties are cool again!
> >
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