Buffy ,'Beneath You'
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.
What are trouser jeans?
Office-appropriate slacks (higher waisted, full leg, slash pockets) made out of denim, usually dark-wash. They go with everything, don't need to be dry-cleaned, can be worn year-round, and are good for most offices without a strict dress code.
I got into them because of What Not to Wear, and finally found a good pair at Banana Republic.
I've never heard of them.
Interesting.
In apartment news: I saw one yesterday and it was nice but the stairs would kill my knees. Still I filled out an application and faxed it with a letter saying I liked the place but would prefer the 1st floor.
Got a phone call: they really want me and are going to try to get me a first floor apartment.
Awesome, sumi!
Oh god, I'm still slightly traumatized from the time I had to tell a minion that denim slacks still violated the no-jeans rule.
Enforcing rules you think are stupid is the worst.
Good luck, sumi!
Today's wildlife sighting: four otters in the downtown part of the slough! No pictures, I was too slow with the phone. I knew there were otters in the marsh, but they are usually pretty elusive, so this was quite a treat!
Now I need to get a battery for the Volvo so I can give it away.
Otters!
Oh god, I'm still slightly traumatized from the time I had to tell a minion that denim slacks still violated the no-jeans rule.
I had that told to me! But it was a) when I worked in a grocery store and b) at my yearly review after I had worn the pants for a year. The woman who had to tell me thought it was stupid, and said she thought management just wanted an excuse not to give me a good raise, since I worked there for 9 years (all through high school and all through college).
It's been a long time since I've had to worry about a dress code. Damn it's good to be a developer.
Otters! That so totally rocks.
In my office the denim trousers would only work on the rare days when we are allowed jeans.
I wonder if denim skirts are allowed. . . .
When I was in the 7th grade, I had a teacher who in retrospect was a fashionista (even if that term didn't exist in 1983). Once, on a field trip, one of the girls in my class caught all kinds of grief from another teacher for wearing jeans. Fashionista teacher jumped in and corrected her, saying that "jeans" is a style of pants, NOT a type of fabric, and one can wear corduroy jeans, for example, and what the girl was wearing were denim trousers and not jeans.
IIRC, the girl still got a note sent home for wearing jeans on a field trip when she wasn't supposed to, so apparently strict style definitions were not part of St. Bernadette's grade-school curriculum.