Answers in increasing order of snarkiness:
1) I just came from/am on my way to the office.
2) I have a job interview.
3) It's who I am.
4) My probation hearing is today.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Why Are You So Dressed Up?
Answers in increasing order of snarkiness:
1) I just came from/am on my way to the office.
2) I have a job interview.
3) It's who I am.
4) My probation hearing is today.
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Or, "the question isn't why am I dressed up, it's why aren't you?"
I'm not a farmer.
Love it! I'll start using #4.
Best Regards,
Ulrich von B.
If it's a lady asking the question, my answer is always, "I thought I might see you today."
- I want to look good for the Rapture.
- Last chance to wear these before my sex change.
- Your wife asked me to look real nice serving your divorce papers.
- It's DB Cooper's birthday.
- Costume shop was out of Sailor Moon costume.
- Worked for Ted Bundy.
Snark. It's what's for dinner.
Both answer #4 and the above are the ones I like. Yeah, to all the slobs out there who don't read this blog, why aren't you?
Also in order of snark:
"Why not? Every day's important."
(Paraphrased from George Frazier)
"I think it's about time I started looking like a grown-up."
"This isn't my only venue."
"To see you. I think you're worth it, don't you?"
"I'm afraid I don't understand."
(Will, your blog gives me a few minutes of pure enjoyment every day.Please keep it up!)
- What do you mean, "dressed up"?
Great! What about, "If I stay ready...I don't have to get ready" #5
I always demur, with 'I am afraid my mother would not approve of me otherwise' - and it's true...
The Miss Manners response is Carl's: "I'm afraid I don't understand."
The straight responses are ones along the lines of "I'm not" and "I always dress like this."
The snarky responses, while fun, do not match the gentlemanly demeanor that the properly dressed otherwise exude, and ought not to be uttered.
Except to friends who can handle the ribbing.
Love the picture, Will. When will you start carrying gloves like those in the illustration?
Gloves will be next year. I ran out of budget...
Very nice - Great post! Great comments!
Or in Oscar Wilde's style: You may say I am overdressed, but I make up for it by being overeducated.
I find that in the Senior Combination Room of my Cambridge college, wearing a suit rather than an odd jacket is usually enough to provoke questions as to whether I'm applying for jobs elsewhere. Then again, I've been known to ask our Senior Bursar if his field coat is an indication that he was on his way to Twickenham, had forgotten that it was no longer the weekend, or had decided that Cambridge was now by definition in the country.
I am asked this question at times, but usually I hear "I have never taken a class from someone as well dressed as you". The way you dress says a lot about who you are.
I am going to have to remember that last one, especially.
@ Todd:
Any advice for a college student who wears a jacket and tie (with square, of course) everyday? I get a lot of weird looks and the occasional question, but mostly from people who I see every day.
@JonasFeit
I'm not Todd, but I'm also an academic. I'd say that the best way to find an answer to those questions would be to ask yourself why you dress the way you do, and tell them honestly. Of course, the answer may be 'because it's never occurred to me to dress any other way', which is in itself valid, but which may raise other questions. Ultimately you do it for a reason, even if you don't know what that reason is, and that reason is the best way of explaining others: they may agree with it it and do the same, or they may disagree with it and continue to dress the way they do, but at least they might think about it.
Fabulous and I love the other posters' responses as well! I have to tell my husband to keep these in mind. After leaving NY for professional reasons, we seem to hear this a lot as other places are quite a bit more casual.
it must be difficult in america where people dont dress and at best wear lycra and plastic but i think you can look good in things that are not suit and jacket, if you are in europe then its not a problem
As George Frazier said, "because every day is important."
To the question "What are you dressed up for," if I'm feeling flip, I often answer by just saying the day of the week. What's really perplexing is when someone asks if you have a job interview when you're wearing an outfit that's clearly somewhere short of half dressy -- think blazer over jeans or chinos. It always makes me wonder, are they such slobs that they'd dress that way for a job interview, or do they think so lowly of me as to think that I would? (For context, I'm a law student, and any job interview I'd be going to right now would most definitely call for a suit.)
if i was a bloke living in the states , lets say texas, i wouldnt dress up, i'd just wear stuff that was the trend but really much better, like if its just t.shirts i'd wear ones by peter werth or fred perry, that kind of thinking, dress is currency like language and your choice of it and at times we have to address our fellow human beings right
Sorry for the late comment---I just found this blog (and am really enjoying it!).
When I was a teenager, I once asked a very elderly man who put on a three piece suit, oxfords, and a fedora to walk around the block every day why he was so dressed up. He replied "there isn't any reason to look bad."
I have always remembered that and have never asked someone that question again.
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