Do you dress for success, or are you a DFH?
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
I’m 33 and in the “creative class,” so I skew DFH, but only when placed next to a “Mad Men” clone. Next to an actual DFH, I look like a tool.
“THE runaway phenomenon that is “Mad Men,” with its stylish depiction of Kennedy-era New York, where men dressed with style and philandered with impunity, has handed modern men their very own “Sex and the City” fantasy.”
That is the first paragraph of the linked article.
And they wonder why print media is dying. Good Lord, I feel like killing myself.
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Ever watch the show?
Yes, several times, but never a show all the way through (it’s too bad for that).
Not the worst on TV, but that is not saying much. It’s ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ with a bigger budget and a week to film.
If you look at my post my point is not really the show. It’s the description of the show in the lead paragraph. You would think it was Casablanca.
nalbar
“has handed modern men their very own “Sex and the City” fantasy.”
MAHAHAHA!! Man, it took a REAL idiot to write that. So much wrong in eleven words.
nalbar
DFH, the Black version, all the way..LOL
actually, I dress conservative. I don’t have the money to be a ‘slave to fashion trends’. I need pieces that can be worn year after year.
I do what’s the norm and dress like a damned peasant. And hate it.
When I rarely get the opportunity to dress up for fun, I am told that I “clean up REAL nice” and service people flock to you. No waiting in lines for this guy. He and his beau are in tuxedos.
I think I look pretty crappy most of the rest of the time, but hey, we can’t actually try to look decent or anything. I love the Mad Men representation of the times. people would wear their Sunday Best to travel or go out for food & drinks. Nowadays that’s just so uncool. Don’t get it.
You don’t get it? The folks who came through the Depression and got white collar jobs dressing up like they wished they could do when they lived on the farm or in the tenements. Dress up so that they could be treated with respect. For them, dressing like rich folks was a real joy.
It was only when one got past that generation that dressing in “Sunday best” became a chore, and generated corporate dress codes.
Dress up for Job Interviews, but DFH all the rest of the time….
Ties are Corporate Leashes–hate ’em with passion…
I’m retired. I seem to living in hiking-backpacking clothing. Can’t really call myself a DFH on that because I don’t have my end-of-the-Cold-War East German Army overcoat and Soviet Army winter hat.
Never was an army surplus DFH even back when I was a DFH. More of a blue jeans-old chambray shirt DFH.
Went through my DFH phase in college. Nowadays its khaki pants and oxford shirts in muted colors. Where I grew up, that is “dressed up.” If the shirts were white, it’d be dangerously close to “putting on airs.”
WTF is DFH?
Oh, I really don’t GAS.
Serious answer: blue jeans and t-shirt, gray or black.
I manage both very well. At work, i have to dress with the button down shirt, pants (not jeans).
On the other hand, I have arm tattoos, and I’m not shy about rolling up my sleeves.
When it comes to music, it depends. When playing bluegrass or rockabilly, i tend toward a suit. rock-n-roll, anything goes.
When Wells Fargo purchase First National Bank, I worked as a temp for FNB. The Wells Fargo people abolished dress codes. Next day I came in, in a pair of cutoffs, a t shirt and a pair of flipflops. My mangers remarked, “Didn’t you wear suits when you started here.” My answer, “things change.” Never worked a job yet that clothes made a difference in performance.
I dress for whatever fabricky thing is on the top of the pile.
Shame on you, BooMan. This question is meant to obscure the fact that we all wear pajamas exclusively.