Dressing for success

Design Discussions design employment
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I feel out of place if I do not wear dress pants and a button shirt. I worked for years in a custom fabrication/prototype shop wearing jeans n t shirts with crappy tennies (no OSHA on 8 and woodward) My first design job had a dress code so I wore nice stuff.

Like this Stan Lee suit made in Hong Kong in 1978, bought in a resale shop in Royal Oak Mi, the tie came from Salvation Army, shoes Kenneth Cole, reversible belt from Grandpa, shirt from wife. I even match my painting.

I even wore leather dress pants a few times. That got noticed, along with the dorsal fin hair style I had for a while.

Oceans 11 was my style guide.

I have a hard time wearing jeans to work, so on fridays I make myself wear them. I do work in the shop in whatever I have on, and remove whatever might get caught in a machine. (the ONLY saftey tip I ever learned from working in those shops)
One of my instructors, Bill Porter, once commented on the way I was dressed, (well) and that comment stuck.


Chris

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casual dress pants and a collared shirt here. this is at a company. my positions at firms were mostly jeans and sandals or athletic shoes. one of the firms i worked at we had to wear casual business attire. i did very little protoyping, leaving it to the professionals. unfortunately, i was the only one in the office who knew how to tig weld. most of my dress pants and shoes had cherry burns in them before i started keeping a set of coveralls in the wardobe in my office.