Dress Code

[JEREMY HAWKE]

The title says it all
What's going on these days. Your representing your business,

OK the demise of suits and ties was acceptable as it was often over the top but you could make a bit of an effort

 

[ctrlbrk]

We want pics or it didn't happen

 

[JEREMY HAWKE]

We want pics or it didn't happen

FFS

 

[Gecko001]

There is a sort of reverse dress code now. For example, most of the estate agents you see on house buying TV programmes such as Homes Under the Hammer wear suits, but the TV programmes dealing with the top end houses north of say, £5M have agents who dress in jeans or other casual clothes. I think this is catching on as I recently had dealings with an estate agent where the two partners, who ran the agency, both wore jeans, while their staff wore suits. BTW when I say suit, I mean any formal attire that you would wear in, say, a courtroom.

 

[FreddyG]

If you are rich and successful, the last thing you either want or need to do is to impress with your dress or a flash car, or by name-dropping. One of the richest men I had ever met was driving an old and battered Austin A35 with a large female pig on the back seat.

I was with a young family who lived in a log cabin in Perthshire, heated only by a wood-burning stove and ate the deer and other produce of the land. Their land came to 3,500 acres. The setting for their cabin was primitive (no electricity and only water from a stream) but it was stunningly beautiful.

 

[fisicx]

If you are rich and successful, the last thing you either want or need to do is to impress with your dress or a flash car, or by name-dropping.

You clearly don’t use much SM. Celebrity culture is all about displaying your wealth and connections. It’s a billion dollar industry. Eg: The Kardashians.

 

[Ozzy]

Celebrity culture is all about displaying your wealth and connections.

I feel the difference here is the word 'celebrity' and I completely agree, in that arena especially with the likes of social media it is all about flashing it and personally I find that sad - but it is how they maintain their wealth. They don't have a product that generates their wealth because they are the product.

In more 'peasant' worlds where wealthy people have built their wealth through graft, there are some people who have what my gran used to call the 'common touch' and stay connected with their roots. Of course there are also those who perhaps for all sorts of psychological reasons feel they need to show others how great and successful they are.

 

[Mark T Jones]

Life and business were a lot easier with dress codes. It was even easier to display individuality or contempt by ignoring them to varying degrees.

It would seem that shorts are still a bit off-limits in London though.

 

[ChrisCallaghan]

For me it depends on my day. I primarily work from home, but I prefer to wear a shirt in-case of short notice Zoom/Teams meetings. When going into our office, I'll go back to smart shirt and trousers, but no tie these days.

If I'm visiting a client, it'll then depend on the client! I'll put on a jacket and tie if needed, but if I'm visiting a client at a building site or garage, then I feel smart jeans and a shirt are fine.

 

[JEREMY HAWKE]

You clearly don’t use much SM. Celebrity culture is all about displaying your wealth and connections. It’s a billion dollar industry. Eg: The Kardashians.

Thank you for the advice I'm going to do this

 

[FreddyG]

You clearly don’t use much SM. Celebrity culture is all about displaying your wealth and connections. It’s a billion dollar industry. Eg: The Kardashians.

So I had to look them up to find out who these people are - apparently, they are some reality TV unhappy-looking freak-show stars, is my conclusion. Fake sugar!

Most of these glamour stars are works of fiction - programmes like 'Cribs' on MTV and rubbish like that, feature people who are in reality not worth much. The $200,000 car and the $10m house are both rented. The clothing is borrowed and the jewelry is all paste.