"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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On Fri, 22 May 2015 10:36:58 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
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"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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On Fri, 22 May 2015 07:32:55 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
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"Tom Gardner" wrote in message
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On 5/21/2015 10:51 AM, Ivan Vegvary wrote:
What's with all the hats (men) that I see in restaurants?
Where
did
these people learn their manners? It doesn't surprise me to
see
this
on a 35 and under age gent. But gees, some of these guys are
way
older than me (72) and come in with wives that are nicely
dressed.
Baseball caps? Come on! I realize that I'm old fashioned
(still
stand up when a lady approaches or leaves a table, or enters a
room)
but I'm convinced that these very same geezers would not have
worn
a
hat indoors 30 years ago, but they do today. What has
happened?

Ivan Vegvary


I still have a hard time with guys that don't wear coats and
ties
to
restaurants.

The growing electronics industry went to jeans and tee shirts back
in
the 60's, in reaction to IBM and Xerox's strict white-shirt dress
codes.

Fashion-conscious New York magazine writers who visited the Segway
factory noticed and commented on our very relaxed "dress code",
though
it's not much different from Broadway stage crew attire.
http://performingarts.about.com/od/S...Stage-Crew.htm
"...the uniform should involve the standard black work slacks or
pants, and a black polo, tee or pullover style shirt."

-jsw


The scope of RCM conversations continues to expand. Who would have
thought that we'd be evaluating fashion trends?

To be really sensitive to proper attire, you have to evaluate the
environment you're entering. For example, I have several CAT caps,
with specific models of earth-moving equipment embroidered on
them.
Do
I wear the one with the front-end loader or the bulldozer? It
depends
on whether I'm dining in Aurora or Joliet.

And my college-team baseball caps -- Washinton & Lee, or
Georgetown?
Will I be overdressed if I wear the Princeton cap?

Not at "21" in NYC. But probably at Tony's I-75 Restaurant in
Flint.
Consult first with your fashion advisor.

--
Ed Huntress

When visiting auto factories the correct fashion is to be driving
their product. Some of the engineers (not me!) had ****ed off the
secretary and she retaliated with flights and rental cars, so I
arrived at the GM plant in Flint in an AMC Pacer.

-jsw

Oh, yeah. My son is in that spot. He has my Ford, but his current
client is not-Ford. So his company rents him one of those not-Fords
every Monday. g

--
Ed Huntress

In 1974 some GM bigwigs came out to check the progress on the
seatbelt-interlock-module test station we were building for them, in a
small backwoods town notable only for its wooden covered bridge.

The interlock was defective in the GM car they rented in Boston so
they drove for two hours with the buzzer blaring. Their superior
attitude wilted when we went out and silenced it for them in about 3
seconds.

-jsw