Also, I don't see any shorts, even formal bermuda shorts, as work-appropriate in a business-casual environment.
Thank god my company doesn't feel this way. I've been in shorts all week, AIFG!
Ouhh! Snacks! The secret to any successful migration! Who's up for some tasty fried meat products!?
Anya ,'Touched'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 02, 2007 8:18:03 am PDT #1885 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
amych - Aug 02, 2007 8:18:11 am PDT #1886 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
The library director wears capris a lot, and I think to myself, I know we are in academia, but you should not look like you are at the beach!
When at the beach, I presume the library director wears the wetsuit.
(No, I will never let that go, for I am scarred.)
My sense of the twittiness of the business-casual marketing chick has nothing to do with the specific items of clothing -- it's that, Dude, part of being a grownup with a real job is that you learn to feel out the local customs for these things and don't squawk about how oppressed you are because your frakkin' generation is so much cooler than that!
tommyrot - Aug 02, 2007 8:19:20 am PDT #1887 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
How about jewel-encrusted battle-shorts?
amych - Aug 02, 2007 8:20:14 am PDT #1888 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
How about jewel-encrusted battle-shorts?
To me, that sounds about half a step away from Dalek. And therefore, business formal.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 02, 2007 8:20:18 am PDT #1889 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I think the shorts thing varies by the availability of air conditioning. At one of my old jobs, we had no air in the summer, and the Dean used to come to work in plaid bermuda shorts. Here, our big boss wear shorts (and in the winter, sweats) to work all the time, but no one else does.
P.M. Marc - Aug 02, 2007 8:21:09 am PDT #1890 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Y'know, I think that dress codes are silly in the extreme, as well as generally sexist and classist (when hair requirements come in, potentially racist) and playing to The Man.
And, well, eff that. Why do we require starchy, uncomfortable clothes as markers that We are Serious Workers. This is Serious Company?
Tom Scola - Aug 02, 2007 8:22:15 am PDT #1891 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
This week, my boss's boss's boss was in town, and for the first time I've been here in eight years, I was told not to wear jeans to work. I actually had to go out and buy trousers. (Not khakis. I hate khakis).
Jesse - Aug 02, 2007 8:27:39 am PDT #1892 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I don't mind there being standards of office attire, but it's possible I've been corrupted by The Man. Or, in the case of my office, The Woman.
§ ita § - Aug 02, 2007 8:28:32 am PDT #1893 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm good with office dress codes. The idea doesn't bother me, and some people need all the guidance they can get. Sure beats a spork in the eye.
tommyrot - Aug 02, 2007 8:28:56 am PDT #1894 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Manpris.
::shudder::
Maybe I was just taunted a little too much as a child for wearing high-water pants....