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.
Well...of course you wouldn’t find a similar shirt represented in the ‘20s or ‘30s. You wouldn’t find miniskirts, bell bottoms, shoulder pads, or leg warmers, either.
You’re right; it is seriously unprofessional, and very much like wearing pajamas to work. I think my post implied that.
But the guy isn’t being raked over the coals by women because he looked like a slob. I’d be willing to bet he could be walking on the street in that shirt, and some chick would snap a picture, post it online, and it would go viral for the same reason.
double ++++ from the southern belle society!
Love your post.
I miss those days. Sometimes I watch old movies just to enjoy the fashions when people actually cared enough to put a little bit of effort into their dress. And it wasn’t just in the movies, you look at any old photographs, high school yearbooks, etc - people used to put in some effort, iron their clothes, tuck their shirts in, and generally make an effort to look refined. Now you get made fun of if you dress up too much, but in those days people actually wanted to look the best they possibly could.