Published on 12, July, 2020
I do not believe it is good to be looking lazy. In the most expensive private schools all the children have to wear suits and ties. All the big world leaders have suits and ties. It is possible to do it quite easily. I wear a pear of trousers under my suit trousers and a T shirt and jumper under my shirt and suit jacket. If it rains, I put all my clothes on the boiler in the boiler room so that they quickly dry.
People sometimes ask what you’d change if you could use a Time Machine to go back in time - kill Hitler etc.
One of the things I’d have on my list would be to go back an assassinate whoever invented suits.
They’re too cold in winter, too warm in summer, useless in the rain, expensive to clean. Completely impractical. I hate them.
Suits are better than dresses I think. Dresses are so awkward to wear and they have weird shapes and patterns, sparkles, fluffy stuff. Suits you at least get a shirt and pants, normal shoes (not tight, healed ones), and it looks not as weird to wear a jacket with a suit vs a dress.
Everywhere I’ve ever worked women have had the choice of dress, work suit or something relatively casual but for the first half of my career men always had our clothes prescribed - formal suit, shirt, tie. I always wondered how that got past the equality police.
Thankfully most employers are much more relaxed now and when working from home it doesn’t matter what we wear.
Edit; formal men’s shoes are often pretty uncomfortable, hard leather things