RDQ 2/12/20: What are you wearing?

I tend to wear outdoorsy stuff as I walk the dogs in the morning.

Currently in t-shirt and some Seeland field trousers which are lined and warm.

I'm in a t-shirt and hoodie but only have teams calls with colleagues or suppliers.

I laugh at my neighbour over the road as hes always in a well ironed white shirt but in shorts underneath. I just can't be bothered with the BS. However if I was to call customers through video though, yes I'd make sure I was a little better presented.

When I'm working from home I wear a branded Polo shirt which has been with shorts up until recently but now it's either jeans or joggers. I haven't owned joggers/sweatpants/tracksuit bottoms for well over 20 years and wouldn't wear them outside (I wear shorts when I go out on my bike), but they are comfortable when you're stuck at the desk working at home.

When I'm visiting my sites or even meeting with the customer, it's smart trousers and the branded Polo shirt but if I'm meeting someone new then I do put a suit on, but I've not had to do that in 2020.

I still dress as if I were going into work - shirt and work trousers, changing back into home leisure wear after I have finished and shut the computer down in the evening.
If I don't dress for work, I just do not feel that I am in a "work frame of mind".

On Teams meetings etc, I appear to be in a significant minority with most of my colleagues wearing tee shirts, gym wear or whatever. I've not had any video calls with suppliers so no idea what they are wearing, although most dealings I have with suppliers, my contacts are back at work and not "WFH" so I presume that they are dressing appropriately

When I was in the office, I usually wore trousers and a shirt but dressed down in jeans or chinos and a t-shirt occasionally. The dress code was very relaxed, only senior management habitually wore suits. I don't like dressing formally and wouldn't work anywhere that mandated it.

I've never seen anyone dressed 'for the office' on a Zoom meeting. Everyone, from colleagues in my team to senior management, was dressed casually by their standards. I never saw anyone in a dressing gown though was tempted myself.

Of course, those were the halcyon days when I had Zoom meetings to attend - now entering my sixth month of unemployment.

Still dressed the same, though - jeans, t-shirt, Mountain Warehouse fleece. Only the best.

Jeans and T shirt today.

I worked for EDS for 6 months way back when. They were “suit, tie and white shirt”. No other shirt colour was acceptable - like the Simpsons episode where Homer’s shirt gets washed with red and turns pink. Straight after that contract I remember going to a meeting in Hamburg in the ‘90s fully suited and booted and the other team were all black T-shirt’s and skinny jeans. My step-brother at Adidas HQ says you can wear what you like so long as it’s Adidas (and socially acceptable so no mankinis). Consultants stand out like spare pricks at a wedding on day one when they arrive in shirts, suits, formal shoes etc.

Just think of the carnage you could cause if you complained about behaviour like that these days. I had a boss who poked fun at me in the middle of the office about the colour of my belt - so much so that I went out at lunchtime and bought another. It's changed days now though.

I am another who does not do "athleisure wear" and would only wear a tracksuit or similar on a sports field or in a gym.

My usual attire is shirt and trousers, with a jumper if it is cold. This could vary from a Paul Smith floral shirt and jeans to a Tattersall check shirt and moleskins on normal days, with a more formal double cuff shirt if I have a formal Zoom meeting with someone outside the organisation. Understandably, a formal suit and tie will be required when we resume our meetings and events at the House of Lords.

I have not routinely worn a tie to work for years.

I just wear a T shirt and (reasonably smart, usually cashmere at this time of year) jumper for the vast majority of the time. Most of my video calls are internal, some are with SME resellers that I've known for a decade. One moans that we (as his most important supplier) don't wear shirts for calls with him - he also calls me to moan the moment his account manager is not immediately available. TBH I think if I cured cancer, and gave him a mass of gold bullion for nothing, he'd still moan.

For the odd client video call I put on a shirt, but then if its baltic and I stick a jumper on top, it looks barely different - I did don a jacket for one important call recently when I was video presenting to 100 or so resellers but the effect was rather undone by my Bose bluetooth headphones stopping working immediately my bit started, for the first and last time ever - with my boss and bosses boss on the call!!!

Even before lockdown, in the tech/mobile industries, suits and ties were overkill - in Telematics we spend half our time meeting SME business owners with fleets - medium sized truck operators and so on - they don't wear suits, or show many signs of liking people that do....

She sounds unbearable. I think I'd have made some very sarcastic reply back to that sort of comment, or made some risque remark about untouchables. 

I'm convinced 50% of the obesity problem in this country is because of the prevalence and popularity of elasticated waistbands..

In normal non-Covid times, does anyone here habitually get changed into "comfortable clothes" when they get home after work?

My wife is a stickler for doing so, and when we first met was quite horrified that I didn't get changed out of my suit (or whatever else I'd been wearing) when I got home and into comfier wear. Partly for comfort and partly for hygiene - she'll be like "but you sat on the seat on the tube wearing those clothes"...

I still don't habitually do it. Whatever I put on in the morning stays on until I either go to bed or need to change it for other reasons. Obviously if I've been wearing a suit, I'll take the jacket and tie off, but would happily flop on the sofa for the evening in my suit trousers and dress shirt were it not for my wife's insistence that I get changed.

I cant relax in a suit - I detest wearing them so it would be coming off the moment I got home. I'm generally in casual outdoorsy gear as mentioned above and will happily wear that in an evening.