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so wrong on so many levels it's almost funny. and why so prescriptive and doctrinaire about, erm, wearing comfortable footwear? jesus christ, what are you contrivedly trying to prove here?

Or go 'business casual' with a well cut sweater/turtleneck

in both my recent pictures i am literally wearing trainers with a turtleneck and/or a long-sleeve tshirt and baggy trousers. i am not wearing a suit. your objection was that i wore trainers with a light trenchcoat/gabardine. which, what the fuck? why is that a fashion sin? lol where do you get this shit from. people pair layers of outerwear with trainers all the time. it's not like i've just turned up to a wedding in a pair of bright red basketball shoes, or have worn sliders to a job interview. i haven't paired my new balances with a three-piece suit and waistcoat. i'm not wearing formal attire in any way, shape, or form, unless you seriously seem to think an APC trenchcoat is 'businesswear' only. get a grip you moron. trainers can look great with a trenchcoat or macintosh outer layer, and are worn that way by 'fashionable' people in major cities all over the world.

and, as i said above, i have several summer linen suits or loose-cut suits which are not 'formal' wear and don't fit your typical officewear mold, which pair excellently with good trainers and/or desert boots or other 'adaptable' footwear. for instance, i have a charcoal linen suit which has a large draw-string for its waist rather than a zip/buttons, and a very baggy seat/carriage area to go with it. the suit looks way better with trainers than polished, formal shoes.



this linen jacket/trouser combination would look ridiculous with a tie or dress shoes. your prescriptions are wholly meaningless, especially when you're talking about someone (i.e. my) day-to-day clothing to wear around the city or to a café/bar. 

tech entrepeneurs because they wanted to appear young and breaking the mold or whatever.

lmao wtf, yet again. silicon valley and enlightened tech gurus aren't the only people who wear business-casual attire to the office, larssen. i work in the fucking creative industries/media. button-down shirts, jackets and lace-up shoes/brogues have not been the expected office-wear in my line of work for decades – since a long-time before steve jobs and the GAP 1990s, let's put it that way. people wear knitwear, trainers, khakis and corduroy, etc, to work in publishing houses, or newspaper news rooms, or media companies. suits are non-existent at even the executive/publishing director level, save for important meetings or client visits, and so on. it would be more weird for me to turn up to work with a polished pair of brogues than with trainers. 'try hard tech gurus'. lmao. are you sure you're not confusing your airless, grey, humourless corner of brussels/the EU machine for the world?

Women different story imo as they shouldn't be required to wear heels all the time

yes, because women only have two alternatives and corporate environments always expect them to wear heels. what decade are you living in with all this contrived sub-GQ, wannabe-Bond bollocks? you're not a model in a patek philippe one-page glossy magazine advert larssen. you're an awkward policy geek with upwardly mobile pretensions/anxieties. get a grip.

once again, i have to resolve this non-argument by deferring to one simple fact: my 'deplorable' fashion sense has evidently caught the eye of, and helped to win over, this one, who works in/with fashion everyday for a living and knows, i suspect, a thing or two more about fashion 'do's and don't' than you. speaking of good things that have happened in my life lately ... .



so why in the fuck should i listen to a faceless 'fashion guru' on a 15-year-old gaming forum, who apparently is too chickenshit to even share his picture, or superlative dress sense, with approx. 5 active users? i drink your milkshake larssen! i drink it up!

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Larssen wrote:

Women different story imo as they shouldn't be required to wear heels all the time

An exception is made for women, "they don't have to wear heels all the time!" Like how munificent, freeing them from the requirement of heels, at least some of the time. Should be grateful for the permission!

On the flip side, men receiving no such "mercy" on inflexible requirements. Want comfort? Gotta hide sneaker architecture inside an uncomfortable looking shoe just to fit in.

Imagine if fashion sticklers from the 17th century were still alive. "Where's your wig? Are you poor?"

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Better go formal for my zoom call. Wouldn't want to look casual in my living room.

is it mandatory to be on camera in the US? we turn that shit off normally in aus lel. met team members for first time during xmas lunch and finally know what they look like.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Better go formal for my zoom call. Wouldn't want to look casual in my living room.

During virtual I kept my camera unplugged. I was a disembodied voice reading slides for most of the year. Did work in my PJs. When I had meetings I would go grab a button down, to look professional even though I was blahing it every other time.

i’m wearing trainers in seoul, not the workplace. and you came at us both for wearing ‘trainers with a trenchcoat’ (the horror! the horror! etc) and ‘dr martens’, lol. she’s wearing designer boots with a dress, a totally ordinary look, just as comfy trainers work very well with a light trenchcoat. lots of parisians, where the coat is from, wear trainers with their coats.

‘cheap running shoes’. the 990s are famously made in the U.K. or US, with top materials and workmanship. they retail for $200-300. that’s enough for a humdrum pair of sneakers, for me. they’re also quite noticeably made out of suede. running shoes are not made from suede, larssen. it ruins easily. are you sure you have quite the eye for fashion that you seem to think you do?

i’m think im in good company. being judged by a bureaucrat who applies his r/menswear insecurities to all the wrong places is just funny.

there is literally no occasion when i need to wear a smart formal suit with dress shoes here. i work freelance and spend my life freewheeling between cafés, bars and restaurants. i would look absurd if i dressed like a City banker or a bureaucrat.

it entirely comes down to environment; which is why you are solely wrong. i’ve never, for instance, worked in my life for a company or in an office where women wore high heels. it would have seemed absurdly dressy, over-dressed in fact, if a female editor turned up to work in stilettos.

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can safely agree to disagree in matters of personal taste. the 990 is considered a classic shoe by many, though, not some particular niche or micro-genre. it really is worn by supermodels and dads alike. the best thing about them is that they are comfy as fuck. never topped the new balances for everyday comfort.

i don’t check any fashion sources any more. i’ve bought the same 3-5 staple brands now for years. often times i’ll just replace a garment, perhaps in a different colour depending on the season. it saves so much damn time. i’m too old to care about the current ‘cool’ fashion that gen-z’ers are promulgating but i also don’t care for ‘menswear’ as you see it on GQ or whatever. that shit is boring and i prefer a little more personality.

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When at work I just do polos and tan, black, or grey khakis everyday. Different color combos but otherwise the same thing. Not trying to pick up any girls at work. I wear dress shoes but I really want to switch to a pair of teacher sneakers.

I am dressed kind of in the middle. I don't do dress shirts and ties anymore. The kids aren't worth getting dressed up over. I don't even bother tucking in my shirt anymore either. Again, the kids aren't worth getting dressed up nice for. But I have seen some really dressed down teachers especially in SpEd. I am just not there yet. I put on a dress shirt and tie once this year for a demo. I joke with the other teachers that if you ever see me with a tucked in shirt or dress shirt and tie, I have a meeting with a parent or an observation.

If/when I am a supervisor I will have to put on a dress shirt and maybe a tie. But until then I just can't be bothered to dress nicely in front of these disrespectful kids.

Since this became the clothing thread, I am in a weird place when it comes to casualwear. I have ample work clothes, formalwear, and stuff for exercise, but have a dearth of things to wear when leaving my building and trying to look somewhat sheveled. At this time of year, it's mostly t-shirts and button-ups, a few quarter-zips and fleeces, and a sweater or two. The last time I had my eye out when I went shopping for work clothes, I was thoroughly underwhelmed by what was on offer, but can't quite put my finger on what was missing. This feels like the time where formerly a dude would just go into dad-mode.

If your clothes are getting that beaten up, just buy a few coveralls.

Coveralls can just go over the top of your regular clothes.

My new role dictated a new wardrobe for work. I don't have to wear a tie every day but I do wear long sleeve collared shirts and slacks, and when meeting with important people I generally throw on a monkey suit

But what if I'm noticed, or more to the point not noticed, by a fashion scout?