Comments on: Dress for Success

By: Q

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:03:57 +0000

I sometimes tend to believe that a man who needs to wear a suit is covering for something lacking in other departments! Having said that, some items are definitely not proper business attire (such as flip flops, light jeans, etc.).

By: Spencer

Spencer — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:19:02 +0000

First, let me say “Whoa!” Nice photo. Wonderful business dressed man on top and sharp dressed lady on the bottom.

So, interesting post. In the far past there were books written on dress for success. We drift away from business formal to business casual, and then business slacker. Now that the economy is shifting, I see more people at work dressing sharper. The competition is on. I have decided to put away the jeans and begin wearing more dockers and polo shirts.

I suspect this trend will continue. In my honest opinion it is a good trend.

Great post.

By: Larry Fast

Larry Fast — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:24:47 +0000

Never trust a man in a suit. Salesmen wear suits because they needs to impress. What they wear, the first impression, is the only thing their only marketable ‘product’.

The unfortunate news is that things like commitment, professionalism and talent are invisible. This means you actually need to get to know the people around you to understand their capabilities and talents.

While your choice of attire is a potential indicator of your sensibilities in other areas, it’s really just another example of clean desk, messy desk. There are a lot of very capable committed people who don’t give a damn about trim of their clothes or the messy pile of papers on thier desk.

By: André Loibl

André Loibl — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:43:37 +0000

That’s cool!! :-)
Do you get the point?! The manager’s manager – the entreprneur wears the Polo… ;-) Awesome!! :-)

Greetings, André

By: Scott C Griffin

Scott C Griffin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:32:56 +0000

You can go too far the otehr way as well! The work environment I’m in is casual. The only exception to this is upper management who often wear a shirt & tie or suit.

One quarterly meeting (on a Friday) one of the groups in our division came in with all of them wearing suits and ties! Everyone else was wearing causal! As a result, everyone was mocking the one division behind their back. It make the one group look like they were “too good for anyone else,” a ’superiority’ overtone, and worse!

Granted that ‘dressing down’ for casual is one thing but so is the opposite! … Now we are wondering when this group is going to come in with tuxes!