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Originally Posted by activeStick
The last time I wore a tie was for someone's wedding. I'd hate to wear that every day for work!
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I don't mind the tie as much. I still have some nicer dress shirts that aren't stretchy and I want to replace those.
If I've gained weight and my neck size has increased, that top ####ing button that is basically required to make the whole thing not look messy is the ####er that tries to UFC choke me out. A tie can be loose.
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Originally Posted by Sliver
I'm done with suits and ties. Fk em completely. I'm not dressing up in a monkey suit for anything.
My mom's friend made me a convert to completely ignoring dress-up conventions (and I always had a loose grip on them, anyway). She wore basically a Hawaiian shirt to my mom's funeral. She said she was there to celebrate her friend. I respected the crap out of that. Shout out Lois.
My friend just died and I wore Vans to his funeral (bought them new so they looked good; not just some old dusty things from the closet). We met skateboarding in grade 6, so fk it, I'm not wearing some lame-ass dress shoes to make fashion nerds happy. I'm there for my friend and we had nothing but fun together for 35 years. Fun shoes it was.
It's really freeing to ignore this dumb stuff.
Have box seats at the dome for some stuffy thing coming up for a financial company. I know everyone will be in suits and crap because I've done this before. Not me. I don't care. I'll wear a hoodie and jeans. In fact, last time I was in a box was for Tool and most people were dressed up because it was a corporate box. Once they saw one guy (me) didn't GAF about looking like you're supposed to, off came the dress shirts to the extent possible and we all had way more fun. Weeded it down to the cool people almost instantly and we had a blast while everyone behind us was on their best behaviour.
Putting on a suit is such a cheeseball way to conform and elicit a type of behaviour that limits fun, honestly. When people dress how they want (without being disrespectful; like, you can look sharp and like you care even though you aren't in the traditional outfit expected) they just seem more fun to me. On this thing coming up I guarantee I'll gel with somebody else that will like that I'm in a hoodie (even if they aren't) and I'll turn off the people that think I cOuLd HaVe DrEsSeD uP since this isn't high school. Sweet, I don't want to talk to you, either. Go over there and talk about the weather and the terrible road construction everywhere. I'll be over here with this dude drinking and having fun.
I say all that knowing there are some people at a station in life where they don't have this option. I'm lucky I can get away with this attitude.
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The shoe thing is symbolic and has a ton of meaning though. Mad props for that. After graduating, my buddy and I were supposed to go snowboarding or something and catch up after losing touch during uni. He passed away before that could happen and I inexplicably felt the need to show up to his team's tumor run with a snowboard.
In other instances, I agree. Although I am one of those guys who will do the semi formal suit jacket over my normal work wear, with sneakers on the bottom first. Really easy and quick to dress down to semi casual/formal street wear by loosening a few buttons and rolling up the sleeves.
I love the full range of motion aspect of my work clothes. I had someone laugh and say I was at a disadvantage being in work clothes for some carnival game. Then his eye lit up and he asked me where I got my clothes when it was obvious there was no disadvantage.