For Want of a Tie

[kybearfuzz]

I have never been one for wearing a tie. I did it as far back as my days working retail in high school. Being of a heavier-set nature, shirts rarely had a neck size that fit right, and if one did the rest of the it was like a ballooning nightshirt.

The sad part is that I like the way a tie looks on a guy. It looks dressy and clean and orderly for the most part. It's one of the few accessories for men, but also is rather sad that it is essentially the staple of the male business attire. Women can get by with far more comfortable clothes and still be in the business attire realm. Men's choices are far more limited.

I'm trying to put forth a better image at work, especially in a leadership role. My goal was to wear a tie every day this month, except Fridays where dressing down is the norm. The tie and shirt I wore today (left) looked pretty good, but the shirt collar chaffed my neck where I shaved and it's sore as hell. So, no tie tomorrow or probably Thursday.

Maybe next week..

Comments

[mort-83.livejournal.com]

I'm not a huge tie fan. I wore one every day from grade 1 through 8. I went to Catholic School. There we wore either clip ons, or ties with a band that hooked together in the back. You had to have a breakaway tie, lest someone yank a regular tie messing around or to torment you.

I probably wear a tie less than half a dozen times a year, if that.

If I wear one in lab, it's bound to either catch fire on a bunsen burner, end up in a petri dish, or get caught in a centrifuge lid. All of which have happened to me in the past 27 years that I've worked in a lab.