Yeah, they make you wear clothes? What the fuck?
Business Casual: Tie or No Tie?
- Thread starter RoJoHen
- Start date
The rules for business casual where I work are:
hair clean and combed;
the shirt has to have a collar;
no buttons on the pants;
no jeans;
must wear socks;
no gym shoes or open toe shoes.
I typically wear a hawaiian shirt, slacks, white gym socks, steel toed boots and a perpetual three day growth of beard.
Some people don't like it, but it conforms to the code.
hair clean and combed;
the shirt has to have a collar;
no buttons on the pants;
no jeans;
must wear socks;
no gym shoes or open toe shoes.
I typically wear a hawaiian shirt, slacks, white gym socks, steel toed boots and a perpetual three day growth of beard.
Some people don't like it, but it conforms to the code.
How do they check?
No buttons on pockets. I don't think anyone has come in wearing a button up fly, but they aren't allowed.
I don't think I have any slacks or khakis that *don't* have buttons, either on the back pockets or at the top of the fly.
This means your neck size is at least 1/2 size to small. Have you got a Men's Wearhouse, Dillard's, JCPenney, or Van Huesen store anywhere near you?
Ditto this. Go to a gentlemen's outfitters/ good menswear store and get your neck and sleeve measurements checked.
FWIW, neither my husband or 2 younger sons fit "standard" shirt collar/sleeve length combinations - being very tall & slim. These are known as "fractional fittings" here in Aus.
Here, Van Heusen shirts are available in fractional fittings.
More like 1/4 size. Clothes don't fit me. I can buy pants with a 34 or 36 inch waste, but based on the pants that I try on, I am clearly a 35, which doesn't exist.
Collars in general I just find uncomfortable if buttoned up all the way, whether they're half a size too small, half a size too big, or the "correct" size. I just dislike the way it feels.
Regardless, this place seems to not really give a shit about that, so it's all good.
^BTW, "business casual" means differerent things depending on where you are in the US. Where you are it probably means polo shirts, Dockers, and Rockports.
Over here it means jeans, a bola tie, and a Stetson.
Over here it means jeans, a bola tie, and a Stetson.
Suit coat not required would make it business casual.
Yeah, I'm not buying it, but I can see some people convincing themselves that way.
Well I'd be glad if we had some sort of dresscode. I could do without male coworkers wearing shorts and sandals in the office. I don't know, maybe I'm old-fashioned.This thread makes me glad I work at a place where we all wear whatever we normally do. I can do my job in jeans shorts and a tie-died t-shirt shirt with tigers silkscreened on it and no one gives a fuck.
