Dress code

[blueg33]

Tie is playing safe.

I have a meeting today with the CEO of a substantial charity. We dont wear ties in our office and they dont wear ties, but this meeting is my first meeting with her and the deal is many millions. I am playing safe and wearing a tie.

[CAPP0]

Thanks for all the input, chaps. I've had the meeting now, went in suit & tie (and shiny shoes!) and happily the guy I met walked in wearing a tie. So, PH gets it right (again/as usual!).

[BrabusMog]

Hope the meeting went well

[Dr Jekyll]

iphonedyou said:

Martin_M said:

Personally, I think ties are a bit old hat these days. I tend to buy high collar dress shirts, (Hawes and Curtis - recommended!) which are smart enough with a suit imo.

For an awful lot of people, they're really not old hat at all.

A surprising number of people do still have to wear them, but that doesn't mean they don't regard them as an irritating anachronism.

Not that anachronism is quite the right word, since it implies that once upon a time ties might have made sense.

[BrabusMog]

Dr Jekyll said:

iphonedyou said:

Martin_M said:

Personally, I think ties are a bit old hat these days. I tend to buy high collar dress shirts, (Hawes and Curtis - recommended!) which are smart enough with a suit imo.

For an awful lot of people, they're really not old hat at all.

A surprising number of people do still have to wear them, but that doesn't mean they don't regard them as an irritating anachronism.

Not that anachronism is quite the right word, since it implies that once upon a time ties might have made sense.

They did actually used to hold shirts together, hence the name "tie".

[Hoofy]

ChasW said:

Hoofy said:

Dress like you're middle-aged.

I know this was written partly in jest but a few years back I was visited by two senior businessmen from Manchester. They were very smartly dressed in sharp suits, shirts and ties, but looked liked footballers about to board the coach on their way to Wembley for the cup final. I struggled to take these 45+ gents seriously with their giant tie knots and slim fit trousers. They were a joke. The excessive use of hair gel did not help either. So it's one thing to be smart and another to be appropriately smart. Dress your age or older but not the other way around.

Also, as a colleague of mine always used to say, "never hire a man whose trousers are shinier than his shoes"!

Ha!

And ha! (Wait, my Matalan suit is a no-no then? )

[iphonedyou]

Dr Jekyll said:

A surprising number of people do still have to wear them, but that doesn't mean they don't regard them as an irritating anachronism.

Not that anachronism is quite the right word, since it implies that once upon a time ties might have made sense.

And a lot of people don't have to wear them, but do, and don't regard them as an anachronism. It really is that easy!

[CAPP0]

BrabusMog said:

Hope the meeting went well

Cheers, yes, very interesting!

[ChasW]

Hoofy said:

ChasW said:

Hoofy said:

Dress like you're middle-aged.

I know this was written partly in jest but a few years back I was visited by two senior businessmen from Manchester. They were very smartly dressed in sharp suits, shirts and ties, but looked liked footballers about to board the coach on their way to Wembley for the cup final. I struggled to take these 45+ gents seriously with their giant tie knots and slim fit trousers. They were a joke. The excessive use of hair gel did not help either. So it's one thing to be smart and another to be appropriately smart. Dress your age or older but not the other way around.

Also, as a colleague of mine always used to say, "never hire a man whose trousers are shinier than his shoes"!

Ha!

And ha! (Wait, my Matalan suit is a no-no then? )

Hoofy

I am sure you Matalan outfit is perfect provided it suits both you and the occasion.

[Hoofy]

ChasW said:

Hoofy

I am sure you Matalan outfit is perfect provided it suits both you and the occasion.

You mean... when I'm in the dock on a GBH charge?