because y'all like my wardrobe stuff

[rm]

So this morning I finally figured out how to tie a half-windsor. Yes, I was using a shitty knot (four-in-hand) before this. I feel so stupid it took this long for me to get it, although I do lay some of this on being left-handed and so no drawing of this sort of thing can make sense to me ever, but I almost don't care how stupid I feel about having not gotten it, because I am so hideously pleased with myself now.

Of course, this was a random, half-asleep grokking of it, so I'm not actually sure I'm going to be able to repeat the feat, but I think so. Anyway, this knot? fucking superior.

Comments

[ckd]

In my case, I have a suit that fits, or at least should still fit since I just bought it last year. I have never worn it.

I bought it for a round of job interviews, because in my field (systems administration/IT) nobody wears a suit, or even a tie, if they can help it. However, both of the places I wound up interviewing told me not to wear a tie to the interview (in one case, adding "or you will be mocked") and so I didn't.

The best part? One round of interviews was on April 1, and a bunch of the people I talked to that day were wearing suits as part of a gag...and each of them was quick to reassure me that they didn't really wear a suit and tie normally.

I love this field. A shirt with a collar and pants that aren't denim? That's dressing up (aka my normal workday routine, since I try to stay a notch above the general run of sartorial "splendor" in this crowd).

As an aside, it's been so long since I wore a tie I don't even know which knot I use (though it's probably a four-in-hand); I'd actually have to put one on and tie it to be sure. I do always make sure the knot looks good, so I hope to avoid "the whole thing is often done extremely poorly" as you describe it.

[marcmagus]

I'm in software dev; I know whereof you speak, and also love it. My workday wardrobe is pretty much identical to yours: trousers year round, polos and short-sleeved button-downs in the summer, full sleeves the rest of the year.

My wardrobe is consequently skewed to the extremes, with a batch of jeans/t-shirts for casual stuff/convention-going, a batch of trousers/shirts for business/casual dance, and then a jump to a 3-piece suit, a tuxedo, and a tailcoat for stuff that requires those levels of formality. [And if you'd asked me 6 years ago, I never would have believed I'd need either a tuxedo or tails, let alone both.]