Oh, it’s tacky...no doubt about it. But look at at the culture we live in. Women wear their pajamas in public, and men go around looking like oversized versions of Charlie Brown (a Freeper once said that; I wish I could remember the name and give her proper credit).
Sloppiness aside, the fact that men appreciate female attributes is offensive to (some) women. Any evidence of such behavior must be met with outrage, and the offender beaten into submission. I don’t understand it, and I don’t have much patience with it.
This is like wearing pajamas to work.
And not at the local lunch counter.
And I rode on the subway in NYC with plenty of ‘dressing genres’. This shirt wouldn’t have raised an eyebrow on the subway.
As I said, I worked senior level R&D for over a decade and NEVER experienced someone wearing something like this to work. And I was the only female in an entire 20+ person department of PhD’s. The GROWN men I worked with may have been teenagers at heart, but they channeled those particular energies somewhere OTHER than work.
Not even the blue collar employees who worked the loading dock wore such things.
It’s not just sloppy. It’s seriously unprofessional.
And the level of unprofessional in someone at his level of education and employment is enough to make me question other aspects of his employability and trustworthiness.
And it would have been unprofessional 50 years ago at NASA.
And because it WOULD have been offensive to the women in the office, mostly secretaries, the mangers would have told him to turn around, go home and put on something else.
Offensive then, offensive now.
My own very feminine southern belle grandmother would have ceased to do business with any establishment she frequented had he worn such a shirt there.
I double dog dare you to find such a shirt in any ‘common’ pictures from the 1920’s and 30’s.
And it was the women who would have strenuously objected to it.
Unless you’re a bartender at a really low class establishment, it’s really inappropriate attire at any place of ‘educated’ employment.