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It’s a cultural comment on how far we’ve fallen that such a shirt would have been allowed in the front door on a PhD level employee. Regardless of their level of performance. Unless he owned the company. The ‘dress code’ of the generation that put us on the moon showed respect for themselves and the job they were trying to do. And they all probably owned dubious bowling shirts as well, given the time period. They just didn’t wear them to WORK.

Did you EVER see Ronald Reagan wearing a t shirt or golf shirt in the Oval Office? Ever? Imagine Ronnie wearing THIS shirt in ANY public photograph. Not even when he was in Hollywood.

Imagine Neils Bohr or Einstein or Heisenberg wearing such a thing to work. Never happen.

Thousands of men (yes, mostly men) have come before him and accomplished just as spectacular scientific feats. I can’t remember any of them wearing a shirt from the establishment of ‘Larry the Lounge Lizard’ in any pics I’ve ever seen of those accomplishments. Somehow they manged to achieve those feats without the unprofessionalism. Which makes me wonder what’s ‘not right’ with this guy.

And I worked with LOTS of seriously ‘off’ guys with PhD’s. If they could manage to get dressed in the morning in professional work clothing, what’s wrong with this guy?

This guy may have IQ but he doesn’t have class.

Or social tact.

And it’s just as inappropriate as the female scientist wearing the boob showing low cut dress with no bra and high heeled (insert verb here) shoes. I worked with one of those. For a millisecond. She couldn’t understand why, as intelligent as she was (and she was), that no one took her seriously. I was like....’realllly’... And then she married one of the Board of Directors...who just happened to need a divorce right then...