Anyone got a new shirt?

In 1987, I was expected to be in dress suit every day, when that contract was up, I found employment at a mine site, where no one wore suits!

 

Think of the guys and gals in uniform day in, day out.

 

Wow. Hi tech issues in your day buddy!

 

Gosh, the shirtlessness here is astonishing. I seem to be the last bastion of respectability apart from @Mendel Leisk .

I work in a T-shirt and shorts most days, but I do have to wear a proper shirt if I'm meeting some (not all) clients, or giving a speech, or if I'm on the telly, or if I'm meeting government people. For speeches and telly and government, it's a full-on shirt and tie and suit. And shoes and everything! For meeting most clients these days, a casual patterned shirt - a quiet check or something - is usually OK. But those are still structured collared shirts, like the ones I'd wear with a tie, just with a pattern. I find Van Heusen's "fat bloke" (not the exact name - I can't remember what it is) cut is exactly the right shape for me: everything else seems to have really long sleeves and to have been designed for the orang-utan market. They also have the advantage that if I'm in a hurry I can just about get away without ironing them.

And yes, unwrapping them is ridiculous. My last shirt came with more than 20 plastic clips and a dozen or so pins. What's nice is that you always miss one pin and find it when it pierces the skin on your back. And the cardboard... and the plastic.... I don't understand why they can't just hang on hangars in the shop, without all the excessive packaging, like women's blouses do.

 

I haven't gone shopping in an enclosed mall in years, just plebeian places like Kohl's, Target and thrift shops.

Long ago, I had bought shirts in packages with pins and cardboard. That was way back when shoulder pads were big.

I haven't needed to wear professional clothes except for funerals and interviews.

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Why bother with shirts?

A lab coat covers everything....
kris

 

I think the problem is that the lab coat doesn't have shoulder pads, and is therefore inappropriate for almost all situations.

 

Where's Sue-Ellen when you need her?

 

Our next-door neighbour is called Sue-Ellen. And her husband is called John, but when we first moved in I couldn't remember whether it was John or Ross. Or both. For obvious reasons.

I do have a friend called Kristin. I am scared of inviting her over in case she shoots him.

 

No worries. There's always the shower room regeneration to look forward to...

 

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