Leslie - or, better yet, start wearing nothing on a regular basis when you're not running.

 

I'm guessing this would get me arrested.   Although years ago when Karen and I and our coach at the time were running in the Arcata Community Forest, we were hiking a climb and suddenly around the corner a young man and woman came running down on us and lo and behold she was completely topless.  All 3 of us were a bit speechless, especially our coach, Bill, but all I could think with her boobs bouncing around was, "Doesn't that hurt???"

The photo session was fun.  And Ruby Beans, the office dog, was included.  Lots of good natured ribbing and laughing.  It'll be fun to see how all the photos turn out.  Us ladies told the photographer to not be shy with the photoshopping. 

When I was a young lawyer it was suits and button down blouses with those little ties.  No slacks at all.  In 1992 or so slacks began to be permitted.  Still blazers, pant suits etc.  Casual Fridays started in about 1998 or something.  My last two companies had a casual culture (a building products company and then Tractor) but we didn't go to blue jeans anytime until just before COVID hit.

4.75M at the new spot this morning. Running in the heat and humidity is getting easier.

regarding ties; they are an obsolete type of clothing that today does nothing except provide antiquated decoration. It's kind of shocking that they are still "required" by some establishments and in some professions. Why not also require powdered wigs? Corsets and bloomers? Hardly any of the wealthy people I know wear ties, and only a few wear shirts with collars and buttons. All of the multimillionaire loggers I know just wear clean work clothes, and might have a polo shirt and khakis when the grease stained but clean work clothes aren't appropriate. Like when their wife tells them they can't wear their work clothes to dinner or on a trip. Kind of the same deal for the tech millionaires I know; t-shirts 99% of the time. I think women are more aware of the nuances than men, in general. But I don't see women wearing a ball gown to go work in an office, either. Why do men have to look like they're going to a wedding or funeral when they go to work?

From what I see on TV and other places, ties are gradually disappearing. 

Doug - it's strange watching all the PI's and police not only in suit and ties on the oldies on our rabbit ears over-the-air TV from Dragnet to Hawaii 50 (in Hawaii, no less) and even the disheveled Columbo but also wearing dress shoes in their runs after the criminals.

Confession: I was hoping to get down tomorrow to the lakeside park I like for the first time since last September when it gets up into the seventies as a prelude for the weekend eighties when, all-of-a-sudden, the temp I was checking on my cell phone jumped up from 69F to the magic (for around here) 70F mark so I jumped the gun and had a very successful late afternoon jaunt down to the lake but, at 43F, I let others do the swimming, oddly enough, all women, no men in the water yet, at all.

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Surly - Seattle downtown is still mostly homeless and entire blocks of boarded up restaurants, haberdasheries, etc. so we were surprised to see a sharp suit-and-tie guy out for over the lunch hour for the first time since we moved to the area last summer the other day when there used to be hundreds of businessmen and women out for business lunches, etc., . . . but his plastic badge was a giveaway:

Westin Hotel

. concierge

I did the suit and tie schtick for years while I was in the hotel gig. 

I got nothing.

If we go back far enough on dress codes, we come across my middle school years where we had to, as girls, wear "jumpers" (or gym rompers) for gym class. A one-piece (with a zipper) badly designed blue cotton thing with the shorts area looking like bloomies. The most awful article of clothing every designed. Kind of looked like ladies swimwear from the 1920s. I can't find a picture to describe this thing. The next year, when I was in Grade 8, we could finally just wear a T-shirt and shorts, like the boys had worn for years. 

Enke, this is what I wore all through high school. We called them gymsuits. The worst!

I got in 4.5 miles yesterday (Thursday).

1800 yard swim last night with the main set being a single rep 500 yard freestyle.  I was aiming for a 1:30/100 pace and fell one second short of nailing it at 7:31.  I'll take it.  It was generally an easy swim, at least that rep.  Some of the warmup drills were harder but not hard.

Strength training was a "push" workout and I lowered my weights but not enough to get the reps I wanted without going to failure.  I have to overcome a mindset from when I worked in a fitness center where the philosophy was to always work to failure on every exercise.

When I started working in the agency I currently work for, 27 years ago, I was hired as a secretary, but the title was clerk.  I wore a suit and tie every day for the first few years I was there.  At some point in time we went to a less formal dress code but men were supposed to wear ties still.  Then we went to business casual and I had to go out and buy appropriate shirts - it seemed like every time our dress code changed I was behind for a while because I didn't have the money, with four young children, to buy a new wardrobe. So I was usually overdressed.   Today it's khakis and a polo shirt when in the office and pajamas and a sweatshirt most of the time when working from home.  Now I can afford to get with the program but there doesn't appear to be a program.  No jeans I guess.  In travel mode, since I'm in the construction industry, we wear jeans and appropriate footwear.  I do see some of the people of the adminosphere dressing formally but haven't seen a suit and tie on any of my co-workers on my floor since .... maybe 2010?  I actually prefer the more formal look of a blazer and tie, but I think I'm in the very tiny minority there.  It's how I choose to dress for church, but even DW says I shouldn't get so dressed up.  Meh.