At my business professionals of america state conference, and I have to say I'm quite discounted; business people wear white shirts and either solid color ties or simple patterned ones; solid colors. Also, no professional should ever, ever wear orange. Surrounded by patterned ties and black silk shirts like the matter at hand is a Sunday service and not professional business. And afterwards, loud loud music from different regions of my state, as if the official soundtrack to business isn't smooth jazz and classical. Dancing dances I'd be embarrassed to know. Jump on it! Jump on it! Another thing, I seem to be the only one here wearing a tie clip.
Awards are being awarded, not a single white shirt in visual basic, visual basic is pretty lame.
Maybe my criterion are silly, a guy in a bright ugly-red shirt won in fundamentals of web design. Meanwhile, music, suitable for National Treasure 3: Torture Is A-Okay, plays. Every once in a while, one of the guys will be in a black suit and tie; those guys are awesome.
Mitchell Musso is here and I'd like a picture with him. Side-note, blue pin-striped shirts are cool too, especially with purple solid colored ties. Some of these people have shiny items on their lapels which should be reserved for formal events such as dances but in my opinion, not award ceremonies.
I am trying to determine how much of this is jealousy and how much is genuine criticism on business wear. Indeterminate.
One last thing: no one here is drinking alcohol, which is really weird.
All of my opinions on business originated while I was watching Mad Men.
Afterwards:
3:54
Blue shirts might be okay. Definitely with khaki pants, maybe with other things. Also, khaki is really inappropriate for the business world; there is literally no reason to wear it, especially when accepting an award.
4:01
I am really looking forward to uil (university interscholastic league), where I will quite possibly place first place in literary criticism and showcase classic style. Black tie, black suit, tie clip, black shoes, business belt, perhaps a vest, and a pocket hanky folded rectangularly, not triangly.
March 21
Mitchell Musso wasn't actually there, there was just a guy who had his hair and he won in some programming competition and he was wearing a lilac/purple silk shirt(???).
The first thing that popped into my head when you said "No professional should ever...wear orange" was the tie that our UT Representative wore earlier this year. :)
ReplyDeleteThe alcohol thing: YES! I found that pretty bizarre at the TAFE Regional Competition. Kids really don't need that to act ridiculous. Maybe if we were in Germany.
Also like BPA, TAFE played seemingly inappropriate dance music. It could be argued, though, that the lyrics "I throw my hands up in the air sometimes saying AY-O!" adequately encompass the teaching profession. Mhmm.
No, there was almost no alcohol there; I didn't see any, but I'm sure there was at least a small amount. That was what was weird, everything I know about the business world (Mad Men seasons 1-4) tells me that there should have definitely been more alcohol there.
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