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BoneKracker
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Yeah, if you're thin, you'd have better luck with Calvin Klein. I once wore fitted shirts, back in the day. 
I can remember having to buy those suits where you can pick a jacket of one size and pants of another. Now I fit the standard six-inch difference between the chest and waist most rack-suits are patterned to (there's another tidbit of trivia that might be useful the next time you have to attend a wedding or something). 
For you, jackets with the double vents in the back are more likely to fit. They tend to be more tapered (i.e., "European style).
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| Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 5:45 am Post subject: |
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| The Earth wrote: | | As if a reason is needed... (Raises a GT w/lime towards the screen) |
*clink*
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| Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 7:00 am Post subject: |
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| pjp wrote: | 
Work, in formal attire? IT BUURRRRNNNSSSSS! |
Never work in Japan. I have a closet full of suits that I almost never wear here in Hawaii. In Japan, you must dress in a suit, and the suit should fit well and look nice if you want to progress. Performance is just step 1, after performance, personality and style become factors for promotions. I have spent less on clothes in the 10 years I've been in Hawaii than I did in just one of the years I spent living in Japan.
| dmitchell wrote: | | The Earth wrote: | | As if a reason is needed... (Raises a GT w/lime towards the screen) |
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Cheers 
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John-Boy
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| Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 5:47 pm Post subject: Re: Formal attire |
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| BoneKracker wrote: | | The best solution is to go to a good tailor and have a couple bespoke outfits made. |
Indeed, pretty much the same with shoes too.
I still get the feeling that I could order a Savile Row special and the moment I'd stepped out of the taliors, I'd be back to square one.
It's just me.
| wswartzendruber wrote: | | The most comfortable formal attire I wore was this |
That's something I haven't thought of, combat gear. It'd make for a good conversation point in the office too.
Especially if I sit there muttering something about 'picking sides'. 
Never understand why some companies have this insistence on technical people wearing the tie and whole shebang,
it feels extremely limiting when trying to do something creative like code - or problem-spot.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 5:55 pm Post subject: Re: Formal attire |
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| Muso wrote: | | Never work in Japan. I have a closet full of suits that I almost never wear here in Hawaii. In Japan, you must dress in a suit, and the suit should fit well and look nice if you want to progress. Performance is just step 1, after performance, personality and style become factors for promotions. I have spent less on clothes in the 10 years I've been in Hawaii than I did in just one of the years I spent living in Japan. |
If I could live in HI and occasionally travel to Japan on business, I'd be fine with that. Wouldn't want to live in Japan, no matter what they allowed me to wear.
| John-Boy wrote: | That's something I haven't thought of, combat gear. It'd make for a good conversation point in the office too.
Especially if I sit there muttering something about 'picking sides'. :wink: |
Mumble to yourself, then get angry to the point of shaking, then talk yourself down. :D
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Prenj
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| Most of the tech companies I worked at had formal dress codes for management and sales people, and for techies at customer meetings. When coding or doing other similar stuff, the only code was to shower and dress "healthy", but not really meaning tie and suit, which I personally find distracting when trying to figure out a way to have 300.000 connections each with its own source IP-address on a 2.6.x kernel |
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energyman76b
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| Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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ties - enemy of man. Bow ties are so much more comfortable, and won't get into your soup.
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notageek
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| Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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I once wore suit to work. People thought I owned the company.
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| Anyone should be able to look good in a suit, they are designed to bring your body type closer to "ideal" proportions. (e.g. if you're fat your normally slumped shoulders will now be structured and strong looking, the suit is tapered at the waist, etc.) The caveat is that you have to get a flattering style and it has to be properly tailored. Almost nobody can buy a suit off the shelf and have it fit properly. Most people also have no clue how to pick out a suit for their body type. |
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mcgruff
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I dunno. To my mind suits are a form of power dressing specifically designed to emphasise masculine secondary sex characteristics, ie broad shoulders, powerful chest, long arms and large hands - think Don Draper. If that's your body type, a suit will really click. If not, it's going to look like the suit's wearing you.
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| mcgruff wrote: | | I dunno. To my mind suits are a form of power dressing specifically designed to emphasise masculine secondary sex characteristics, ie broad shoulders, powerful chest, long arms and large hands - think Don Draper. |
You called?
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