I’ve been watching #! My Dad Says* on TV and I noticed the son, Henry wears a dress shirt, with a tie and the shirt is untucked.
Does anyone do this in real life? If so where? I never have seen it, but I live in Chicago which is usually last to get fashions
What kind of dress shirt? Was the bottom square or did it have the “flaps” (I don’t know what else to call them)? The former is acceptable (and intended) to be untucked; I can’t imagine the latter can be acceptable untucked.
Here are a few screen captures:
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:dubious: Looks like a slob to me.
If he worked in my department, I’d send him home with a warning. 2nd offense, I’d write something up for his personnel file.
You couldn’t just ask him to tuck his shirt in?
Yeah, probably so. I’d try humor first. What’s with the shirt? You get dressed in a hurry? Was her husband coming home?
Our dress code would never tolerate something like that. I can’t imagine an employee showing up for work like that. Unless he was drunk.
Henry on “Shit My Dad Says” was the first person I thought of when I saw the title of the thread. I think it’s a fashion statement for Henry. I think it shows that he’s kind of an idiot.
Yes, No, Yes or No, Yes No are the only truly acceptable answers. Yes, Yes, No and Yes, No, No are maybes depending upon the shirt and pants.
Common enough here in Santa Cruz.
I didn’t make the connection to the show but my first thought was sounds like a “pretentious douche”. Wants to break the rules and thinks he looks cool, but he doesn’t.
Ha ha ha. That’s Well-Dressed Wednesday where I work. But t-shirt and jeans is the usual dress here. But yeah, it happens a lot with younger guys where it’s an event between casual and formal, like weddings (obviously not the wedding party) or meeting the girlfriend’s parents. Once you hit your late 20s it’s time to start tucking the shirt in, though.
I haven’t seen the show, so it’s a pure shot in the dark, but my guess:
He has a crappy job that he hates, and is required to wear a tie, which he also hates. So, not tucking is his way of following the letter of the dress code, but not the spirit. And since it’s TV, his boss hasn’t called him on it.
That, or I’m reading way too much into some screen caps from a sitcom.
I have only seen douches in SoCal who think that it’s dressy casual, do it. And maybe a few fat guys that think leaving their shirt untucked doesn’t make them look as fat.
Not even close. Go visit northern Wisconsin; Chicago is very hip by comparison.
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You’re reading too much into it. Henry’s a writer for a magazine and he loves his job. And the atmosphere at his office is rather casual and laid-back. I don’t think they even have a dress code, although he sometimes works from home, too. His boss is a bit of a pretentious douche himself, though.
Funny, I was thinking about this subject today, working on a 1970s costume for our next concert. My conclusion is that it’s ok with a “camp” shirt (no tails), but not ok with a tailed shirt.
Yes. I’ve done it a few times, but usually, I do it with a sweater over it.
It’s acceptable if you’re at an event that starts off formal, but which gradually gets less formal as the evening wears on and the alcohol flows. For instance, you wear tucked-in shirt and tie for a wedding, but the shirt comes untucked in the process of dancing at the reception. But getting up in the morning and getting dressed like that just makes you look like a slob. Any scenario where you’d be putting on a shirt and not bothering to tuck it in, you wouldn’t be wearing a tie, either.
Isn’t it great when you think you have something to add, get down to the last post, ready to type it, and then that post says it for you?
In other words, this is exactly what I was going to say, except that I was going to add that I usually also take off my tie, or at least loosen it.
