Do these things ever go out of style? Well, yes.
I haven't bought a suit since 1990, way back when I had a real office job in DC. In the intervening years I've worked from home and my working wardrobe tends to be on the frayed and ratty side. However, I've got to suit up now.
Today I had to deliver my Review of Internship presentation (the "what I did last summer" talk), for which we are required to dress all professional-like. Tomorrow I have to dress up for my public speaking class "final" which is in the form of a pretend job interview. I'm hardly going to run out and buy a suit before I need one for a real job interview, because I'll have to pay finance charges on it that much sooner, so dusty old suit from the olden days it is.
Do you remember 1989? The shoulder pads? The skirt lengths? Pleats? I looked really sharp in 1989. I looked pretty sharp today, at least to the engineers, but I felt like I was in costume. All done up and Halloween a month in the past. What a shame. I could've gone as an IRS agent.
The presentation went well, in the sense that I bludgeoned the professors with fifteen solid minutes of chatter about the Hamsters and left them too stunned to grill me on the technical merit of my internship. Better yet: after tomorrow I won't have to dress up until I have a real interview.
252 words | November 29, 2004 10:28 PM | Ivory towerDress professional-like? For me that means digging through my stack of jeans to find the one that doesn't have holes in the knees yet.
Its against my religion to wear a tie!
Posted by: Derek at November 30, 2004 04:04 AMOn the other hand, after wearing "Aloha Wear", i.e. button-down Hawaiian shirts, professionally for two years and counting, going to a mainland conference and putting on a coat and tie felt really, really good. Kind of adult.
Posted by: Jonathan Dresner at December 3, 2004 05:18 AM