I work in an office environment, and every day I wear a pair of dress pants, a dress shirt, dress shoes (my underwear, while nice, is not dressy) and dress socks.
In other words, I try to fit in. Often, I am one of the few people to always wear dress clothes everyday. Now I'm not complaining about the so-called dress-down Fridays - I wear jeans and a decent shirt... but some people dress in jeans and a the--shirt everyday... and that's fine... if they can wear it and their bosses don't care... that's their prerogative.
Now... a couple of weeks ago, I was asked to go to a meeting where a prospective client was coming in to chat with a bunch of us editors. Fine. I know the drill. Dres up and look like you care. I was going to do that as a matter of course.
My boss, however, actually came up to me to ask if I had a suit. Holy crap. That's rude. Number one... what if I didn't have a suit? Was I expected to go out and buy one for a stupid meeting. I don't know about you, but I don't get paid a lot of money - in fact, I make a bout $10,000 less than I made 16 years ago... but I actually enjoy my job now.
Number two... my boss obviously doesn't think very highly of me if he doesn't believe I would dress up for a client.
Truthfully... I have a suit. I have a few suits. And, I look good in them. The problem is that on a day-to-day basis, why would I want to wear a suit to work and actually look better than the bosses and everyone else? These jokers have suits, but few actually know how to look good.
Hmmm... I suppose that makes me a clothes snob... still, to insult someone to their face about their clothing... well...
You know what I hate?
I hate clothes snobs.
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