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04:02 pm
10/23/07

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How would you describe your personal style?


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More calculated that it looks. For work I have to wear a jacket and tie, but if I'm too smart then people will not expect me to know about technical subjects -- I'd look too much like an admin type angling for promotion. So the tie has to be just a /bit/ faded, the jacket just a /bit/ crumpled; not so much that I look scruffy, but enough to look as if I'm not really trying, as if I'm not really that bothered.

Casual is more difficult, because I don't know what I am trying to achieve. I can be so many different people that the attempt to project all of them probably ends up rather confused. Probably the most obvious thing about my clothes is that I've lost weight so most of them are baggy on me. Am I too old to pull off a hip-hop style?
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On December 7th, 2007 04:46 pm (UTC), [info]aedifica commented:
I hadn't realized that would be an issue for guys as well. Now that I do face-to-face tech support (as opposed to helpdesk over the phone) I've pretty much stopped wearing makeup, because it's my perception that people won't take me seriously as a tech if I look like I spend too much time on my appearance. As you said, I stay above the "scruffy" range, in fact I look quite presentable, but I'm careful not to look as if I'm presenting, if you take the distinction.

And then, the other reason I don't dress up as much as I did on the helpdesk is because I'm now walking a lot more and carrying dusty things.

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On December 7th, 2007 05:55 pm (UTC), [info]digitig replied:
I hadn't realized that would be an issue for guys as well.

I don't know if all the other guys agonise over it as much as I do ;-)
because it's my perception that people won't take me seriously as a tech if I look like I spend too much time on my appearance.

Just so.
As you said, I stay above the "scruffy" range, in fact I look quite presentable, but I'm careful not to look as if I'm presenting, if you take the distinction.

That's the distinction I was trying to make -- without the sexual connotation ;-)
And then, the other reason I don't dress up as much as I did on the helpdesk is because I'm now walking a lot more and carrying dusty things.

Yes, I'm likely to end up wandering around an equipment room under construction, a muddy airfield or (rarely nowadays) crawling through a cable duct. Not the place for Armani!
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