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Thursday, September 25. 2008

The new trend in business dress

Casual business dress is passe (I don't know how to do an accent aigu on this machine).

I learned this from the Wall St. kid of a friend this weekend. They were informed that, from now on, Business Formal is their required dress code, all week.

That's good news for Brooks Brothers and Ann Taylor - if there is anybody left on Wall St. to need the clothing.

What do I wear to work? Blazers or tweed jackets and tie, and grey trousers. Brooks shirts. I wear good suits to court, but I only own 5 of 'em for court, weddings, and funerals.

Posted by The Barrister in Our Essays, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 12:22 | Comments (12) | Trackbacks (0)

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Passe would be e using Alt-0233 as in passé

The Character Map program show all the characters and key strokes...
#1 Earl Wertheimer on 2008-09-25 12:33 (Reply)
A sure sign of recession- fashion is often a lead indicator, isn't it? What, no more free-wheelin' "business casual" a/k/a look- as- much- like- a- slob- as- possible?! You mean we're actually getting serious about business again? A return to standards? A conservative trend? Could this be anything but a harbinger of bad tidings for the Obama Campaign(I hope!)?
#2 greenmtnpunter@aol.com on 2008-09-25 12:48 (Reply)
Earl ... you just made my day. Because I never took a formal computer course, and just sort of picked it up as I went along, I didn't know about the Character Map program and I've missed sorely the accent aigu and the accent grav, from the days, shortly before the Fall of Rome, when I took French.

Such a nice man ... thanks.

Marianne
#3 Marianne Matthews on 2008-09-25 12:49 (Reply)
Maggie's post on using accent marks here.
#4 Dr. Mercury on 2008-09-25 12:57 (Reply)
I agree with the sartorial decisions of Wall St. It is a big deal.

I thought immediately of Ahmadinejad, though. Funny. Then I thought of Steve Jobs. I love it. I was in an Apple store recently and it was just packed, and there were about fifty 'geeks' dressed like slobs helping people and grinning and being super polite and fun. It was like walking into a fantasy where I wanted to stay forever. It worked like a charm, I can tell you. But if I'm talking with my broker, I don't want to see him in anything but the perfect suit and dry-cleaner-ironed-with-heavy-starch shirt.
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#5 Meta on 2008-09-25 13:06 (Reply)
Any scarves for your broker? Now, let me see if I understand this. Eating something with it's head on is not good, but eating ice cream made from mothers milk is delicious. I think you are a bigger "head" case than ME!! Ciao Bella!! : )
#5.1 jappy on 2008-09-25 14:40 (Reply)
As long as my broker keeps me in fast cars, I'll scarf him. And no way will I scarf anything with its head on, much less scarf down Mama's Milk Nougat Munch. I'm a material girl. :)
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#5.1.1 Meta on 2008-09-25 18:21 (Reply)
Or type ampersand-e-acute-semicolon
ampersand-e-grave-semicolon
ampersand-u-uml-semicolon

etc.
#6 rightwingprof (Link) on 2008-09-25 14:11 (Reply)
Might be the trend on Wall Street - it sure isn't anywhere else.
#7 NJSoldier on 2008-09-25 18:50 (Reply)
or type in Word, access the "symbols" menu through the "insert" menu, and voilà!!!
#8 Mark In Irvine (Link) on 2008-09-26 15:53 (Reply)
In Salt Lake, the only folks wearing suits to work are lawyers and folks working for the LDS Church.
#9 Sam on 2008-09-26 16:45 (Reply)
Too bad Brooks Bros forgot how to make decent suits.
#10 KBK on 2008-09-26 22:52 (Reply)

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