I wore a jacket to work today so I'd look good for the LinkedIn event tonight. It made a big difference in the way I feel. Usually I dress like a bum for work, and I'm tired of it.
I get filthy kneeling in the dust and working in a basement full of oily garbage that sticks out into the aisles. So I mostly wear jeans and flannel. That's casual, but put them on every day and you begin to expect people to call you Cletus. Over the weekend I noticed that my brother wears tweed jackets everywhere and I started thinking I could do that. I have a few dress jackets, and a red velvet one for when I want to get my swank on, but nothing in between.
So here's my solution: wear a nice jacket and trade it for the lab coat when I hit the dungeon. This makes it much easier to go out after work. And it makes me stand up straighter.
Tweed sport coats are possibly the most versatile of all menswear garments. Add a scarf and gloves and you can be warm down to pretty low temperatures. Throw one on with jeans an all of a sudden you're 20% classier than any other denim wearer in the room. They don't wrinkle or show soil. They're rugged as hell. They never go out of style. I have herringbone ones in gray, brown and denim-ish colors. Also a sort of very dark houndstooth in black, indigo, pine green, Burgundy and cocoa that all blurs together into a warm neutral.
ReplyDeleteMind you, there's always the problem of your girlfriend/wife borrowing them, 'cause they look good on chicks too
ReplyDeleteSo I broke out my blazers and wore them a couple times, for appropriate occasions. The downside: getting red wine dumped all down the front of them.
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