The dress code at my office is you have to be dressed. People pretty much wear whatever they want.

Well, you have the shirt which is probably why they asked!

Sometimes. I think the PGJ shirt was paired with a skirt that had pink gingham trim and black stars and I had cowboy boots. More people were dealing with overload on the boots that the shirt doesn't even register.

My other shirts say things like, "I'm a NOUN!" or "Shakespeare Hates Your Emo Poems" or "Bad Grammar Makes Me [Sic]" so they are at least contextually correct.

Shall always seems more like a question. Like, "What shall I do today?" But it would ping me as odd used twice in an email. Once, probably not so much.

Pretentious, secretly English, or what?

Higher ed.

Well, you have the shirt which is probably why they asked!

Dude. Random stranger.

Except I did verbally assault Elevator Guy...

Nevah mind.

Oh! Now I crave cowboy boots too. Man, I get these horrible consumption binges. I'm so terribly first world. It's disgusting.

Higher ed.

Well, of course that. Sigh. I am reading a paper I was asked to be a peer-reviewer on, and it's right up my (old) alley of research (she cites me!) but MAN is it reminding me why I left academia proper. So much talk, so little meaning.

Our office dress code is "business casual," which means no shirts, no jeans, no T-shirts, no sandals or flip-flops. I once got away with wearing one sandal and one regular shoe (with socks) for a few days after I'd broken a toe, and a regular shoe was just too uncomfortable. If we meet with anyone outside the agency, it's "business wear" -- which caused a little embarrassment at a recent meeting of an interagency working group, where I was in suit and tie, and all the other men were wearing oxford shirts and khakis.

My impression (which could be wrong) is that women have somewhat more leeway in what counts as business wear. Probably because men have a traditional uniform with a suit and tie, while women don't have that tradition.

amych, you'd love this. "I argue that the ideology of the sword makes it invaluable as an instrument of diacritica, and therefore it is the hierarchical structure training and corresponding social status that mediates the consumption of the blade."

My impression (which could be wrong) is that women have somewhat more leeway in what counts as business wear. Probably because men have a traditional uniform with a suit and tie, while women don't have that tradition.

I got shit from a guy who complained I could wear a T-shirt to work. Rather than explain it wasn't a T-shirt like he'd wear, I pointed out he could wear the same damned pants to work for two weeks and no one would care, and he did back down. It's just not the same territory.

See, I find that the sword is invaluable as an instrument of smacking the other guy around and making him consume the blade, but I was pretty much doomed from the start when it comes to traditional academia.