I have a weird question about clothes

[HM]

Here's two different examples of people's clothing that I found interesting over the years:

High School English teacher- She wore a different outfit every day of school and we didn't see a repeat outfit until April that school year (We kept track once we realized she didn't repeat outfits)

College Psych professor- I had her class on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We only saw her in two outfits the entire semester. We figured she had one outfit for each day of the week, so we only saw her Tues and Thurs outfits.

 

[zoemurr]

I'm pretty sure Michael Kors said something to this effect. He basically where's the same type of outfit every day...jeans, black t, blazer. It's one less decision he needs to make in the day.

Obama has said this too.. although I've never noticed his clothes all being the same.

Jay Leno wears the same outfit every day when he's not at work. 500 of the same shirt? Does he wear it once and throw it out? Seems just a bit excessive. Doesn't he have someone to do the wash? I think it's funny he buys his shoes at Payless..



http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20280601,00.html

 

[lizabu]

I dont really have an opinion one way or the other but I can say what can happen to celebrities. One might go out with a pair or jeans and a black tshirt, the next day, designers and retailers are sending them black tshirts and jeans for them to wear for free publicity. They get boxes of free stuff . I personally know one celebrity this happens to. So he figures, why buy stuff when I get all this for free. He gets black tshirts by the dozens , from different designers, free all the time.

Is your friend Simon Cowel? We won't tell

 

[yoopermom]

In education there's definately a split: male teachers can wear the same thing over and over and no one notices, but female teachers are a different story. One year I was really poor and wore the same black pants M/W/F, brown pants T/R and had only ten shirts to alternate between. Students noticed and commented.

I would have killed to have a "dress code" where we could have all dressed in dress pants and polos during the warm months and button downs during the cold!

Terri

 

[bcla]

The "outfit" that Steve Jobs wore was consistent and casual, but certainly not cheap. Those black mock-T shirts he wore were custom made by a Japanese designer and would probably retail for about $200 if they were for sale. There was an American company that claimed (apparently in error) that Jobs wore their shirts, but even those sold for a huge chunk of money. He also wore Levis 501 jeans and certain models (990/991/992/993) of New Balance running shoes that are still in production with almost exactly the same details.

 

[Luv Bunnies]

As others have said, the people the OP mentioned favor the techie look. I live in Silicon Valley. I've worked with lots of techies and I'm married to one. I worked in PR/marketing at several tech companies. At one company, my department was on the first floor and we always dressed professionally. On the second floor were departments like order processing, customer service, and a few others. They dressed more business casual. Then there was the third floor where all of the programmers were. That place was like a whole different world. The dress was very casual (jean, sneakers, t-shirts). They worked very long and sometimes odd hours. The groups that had product deadlines coming up sometimes had sleeping bags in their offices to catch quick naps. They ordered a lot of take-out up there since they rarely left for lunch or dinner.

There's definitely a tech culture in this valley. People who sit a write code all day (and night) tend to dress for comfort. When they get promoted or even start their own companies, they tend to keep the same habits. The CEO of DH's current company is a multi-millionaire who started out in the trenches as a programmer. He still wears jeans to work, but will put on khakis if he has a client meeting. The company recently went public and his wife had to convince him that his single brown suit wouldn't cut it when he went to meet with investors. He grudgingly bought a blue suit at Macy's. His wife tried to take him to Nordstrom, but he said no. Anything more upscale than Macy's was out of his comfort zone. Definitely a creature of habit!

 

[bcla]

There's definitely a tech culture in this valley. People who sit a write code all day (and night) tend to dress for comfort. When they get promoted or even start their own companies, they tend to keep the same habits. The CEO of DH's current company is a multi-millionaire who started out in the trenches as a programmer. He still wears jeans to work, but will put on khakis if he has a client meeting. The company recently went public and his wife had to convince him that his single brown suit wouldn't cut it when he went to meet with investors. He grudgingly bought a blue suit at Macy's. His wife tried to take him to Nordstrom, but he said no. Anything more upscale than Macy's was out of his comfort zone. Definitely a creature of habit!

I remember one interview. Got the job and was there for a long time. So I come to the interview dressed in a dress shirt, wool slacks, and a tie. It was warm so I didn't bring a jacket. Someone seeing me on the street would think I'm in finance. So the first thing my future manager said to me when I got in the room was "Please take the tie off. It's making me uncomfortable."

The guy in charge was a technical guy, but he almost always wore formal attire with cowboy boots. About the only time I'd ever seen him in a T-shirt was at the company picnic.

 

[Buckalew11]

This makes me think of...the difference between weird and eccentric is lots of money!

 

[ChrisFL]

This makes me think of...the difference between weird and eccentric is lots of money!