I recently learned...

[plutherus]

Hey, did you know you can buy shirts with ties?

I mean, a shirt, with a pre-matched tie, in the same package! Amazing. What will they think of next?

I grew curious about this, after seeing several of my co-workers with well-matched ties. I was kind of surprised, actually, because most of them are engineers. (Did I ever mention, by the way, that we actually have to wear ties at work? It's kind of weird - other than the traveling consultant job I had many years back, I've never had a job where people wear ties before...)

Anyway, I eventually noticed that, some of these people always wore the same shirt with the same tie - and, being, me, I eventually had to ask. Yes, it turns out, you can buy them together at many stores. And, as long as you keep the shirt and the tie together, you'll always have two that look good together.

Of course, that kind of takes all the fun out of it :)

And, neither of the two stores I saw had french cuff shirts that come that way, just plain normal shirts. So that's out. I really like my cuff links, and it's even more fun cuz you get to try to match the minor colors in tie with the cuff links.

Being a male, a geek, and a heterosexual, I never got around to doing the whole accessorizing thing before.

And now there's a rumour going around that we're going to be switching our dress code to business casual (no ties). I kinda hope they don't. I mean, I realize it's kinda ridiculous for a company to make it's geek corps wear ties. It's not like any customers will ever see us or anything. But, dammit, I look good in business dress. Hmph. Just when I finally start learning to accessorize, they take it away from me. It's a conspiracy, I tell you.

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[31seel.livejournal.com]

See, if you had of gone the goth route, you would have learned to accessorize -- & it is easy because you always start out with black....