# Requesting: tales of people being inappropriately dressed
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-tales-of-people-being-inappropriately-dressed/693328
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 17, 2014, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-tales-of-people-being-inappropriately-dressed/693328 "2014-07-17T02:31:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2014, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-tales-of-people-being-inappropriately-dressed/693328/161 "2014-07-23T19:37:12Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#):
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> Emily Post suggests that you not call attention to yourself, and simply have an acolyte/alter boy pass a note to the officiant. Miss Manners further advises that if it is not a religious service, you should just leave things be, unless you have reason to suspect that the bride has lied to the groom about her virginal status, in which case, you should address the matter before the ceremony.
She also said in the case of a pregnant bride, throw minute rice.
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### Author:  [@MostlyUseless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyUseless)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2014, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-tales-of-people-being-inappropriately-dressed/693328/162 "2014-07-24T11:45:52Z")
I am still horrified by this 25 years later and should have taken it as an indicator to come…
The night before my wedding to my now ex-wife, one of her sister’s friends was over at the house. He was crack ho before crack was cool in a “F\*ck it” T-shirt. He then proceeded to get so drunk that as he sat at the table, his head slumped over and he began heavily drooling onto his shirt.
Fast forward to low key, but nice wedding next day. Guess who shows up and in the same shirt.
Had I not been young and foolish, I would have seen the writing on the wall and fled; could have saved myself 10 years of marriage, aka burning in hell.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2014, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-tales-of-people-being-inappropriately-dressed/693328/163 "2014-07-24T11:54:34Z")
> [@gigi](#):
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> She also said in the case of a pregnant bride, throw minute rice.
[QUOTE=Tom Waits]
Hey, I got this girl I know, man, and I just
She’s been married several times and
I don’t wanna end up like her
I mean, she’s been married so many times
She’s got rice-marks all over her face
Yeah, you know the kind
[/QUOTE]
😃
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### Author:  [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-tales-of-people-being-inappropriately-dressed/693328/164 "2014-07-25T16:33:39Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#):
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> One young lady came in wearing the shortest mini-skirt I had ever seen (this was in 1978 and the mini-skirt was fairly rare at that time and absolutely never seen in the work environment).
Quite so. I remember specifically 1978 as the year fashionable hemlines were two inches above the ankles. I also remember 1978 as the last-ever year that hemlines mattered.
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### Author:  [@Debaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debaser)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2014, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-tales-of-people-being-inappropriately-dressed/693328/165 "2014-07-25T17:33:37Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#):
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> Me, I once got lectured for wearing regular work clothes on “casual Friday.” All the jeans I owned (and this is still true), are the loose-fitting type with cargo pockets, and at the time were all pretty worn. Also, the dress code in this place wasn’t very strict, so everyday work clothes could be dockers and a Polo shirt, or a broomstick skirt and a very casual sweater. It wasn’t called “denim Friday”; it was called “casual Friday.” But, I went out and bought a pair of nice Levis, that weren’t loose-fit, carpenter, or cargo. Wore them to work every goddam Friday. Never any other time. They weren’t as comfortable as most of my other work clothes.
Maybe this will make you feel better:
Casual Friday isn’t for you. It’s for the women in the office. They love it. For guys it’s less comfortable and a hassle. But for women it’s more comfortable and a convenience.
So just think if it as doing an unappreciated favor for all the ladies at your workplace.
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### Author:  [@Debaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debaser)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-tales-of-people-being-inappropriately-dressed/693328/166 "2014-07-25T17:40:38Z")
I’ve got a court story also. A high school friend had a court date for basically having a whore house. It was a silly charge. Four guys and two girls went skinny dipping and drove home naked. They ran from the car to the house still naked and then found clothes inside.
While running into the house a limo was driving by that happened to have the wife of a cop inside for some reason. She called her cop husband and he came and raided the house and found them smoking some pot.
For some reason the combination of a joint plus a witness seeing naked people led to an absurd charge something along the lines of “having a house of ill repute”. Basically a law meant for whore houses. I don’t remember the exact wording but it was something just like that. This was a decent house in a middle class neighborhood owned by the kid’s parents.
He showed up to court wearing a baggy sweatshirt with the neck hole torn jagged to be more open and covered with stains. I told him to dress nicer and he said he didn’t want to “sell out to the man”.
The case before him was someone who committed armed robbery in the nighttime with a mask on. My friend got a heavier sentence than that guy.
Always dress up for court.
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2014, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-tales-of-people-being-inappropriately-dressed/693328/167 "2014-07-25T17:46:42Z")
> [@Debaser](#):
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> Maybe this will make you feel better:
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> Casual Friday isn’t for you. It’s for the women in the office. They love it. For guys it’s less comfortable and a hassle. But for women it’s more comfortable and a convenience.
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> So just think if it as doing an unappreciated favor for all the ladies at your workplace.
**RivkahChaya** is a female.
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### Author:  [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2014, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-tales-of-people-being-inappropriately-dressed/693328/168 "2014-07-25T18:09:45Z")
> [@Debaser](#):
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> [replying to me, RivkahChaya]
> Casual Friday isn’t for you. It’s for the women in the office. They love it. For guys it’s less comfortable and a hassle. But for women it’s more comfortable and a convenience.
> [@Leaffan](#):
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> **RivkahChaya** is a female.
FWIW, my husband loves casual Friday where he works, but he likes “straight” jeans, the kind that look like pants, but made out of denim, which are what I hate, and what was expected on “casual” Friday. As far as I was concerned, the dress code on Fridays was stricter, and more restrictive, than the daily dress code. I could wear my tie-dyed skirt on regular days, because pretty much any skirt was “dressy” for this place.
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### Author:  [@Drummond\_Bays](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drummond_Bays)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2014, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-tales-of-people-being-inappropriately-dressed/693328/169 "2014-07-25T18:41:27Z")
Good friend’s wedding reception earlier this year at a trendy posh-ish restaurant in a hip, happening part of downtown. Attire ranges from deadly serious suit’n’tie for the close family&friends to semi-casual khakis and button-up shirts/nice dresses for the more auxiliary folk in the crowd.
A guy I grew up with shows up in ratty-ass jeans, busted up sneakers, skateboard in tow, wearing a dirty white t-shirt that says “FUCK CANCER” in black block letters. (No, he is not a cancer survivor.) Staff at the restaurant ask him politely to leave and come back clad more appropriately, he jokes that “he didn’t realize what he was wearing.” Comes back, has changed his t-shirt to a home-made piece of crap with the Wu-Tang logo and a silhouette of Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s face. Proceeds to get obnoxiously drunk, get cut off by the bar, and decides to make a speech apologizing for his first inappropriate choice of garb. You could hear the sarcastic under breath remarks amongst the crowd.
I wanted to take him out back and lay the smackdown on him. Idiot.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2014, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-tales-of-people-being-inappropriately-dressed/693328/170 "2014-07-25T18:51:51Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#):
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> Objection!!
:: bangs gavel ::
Overruled!
> [@Drummond\_Bays](#):
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> …A guy I grew up with shows up in ratty-ass jeans, busted up sneakers, skateboard in tow, wearing a dirty white t-shirt that says “FUCK CANCER” in black block letters. (No, he is not a cancer survivor.) Staff at the restaurant ask him politely to leave and come back clad more appropriately, he jokes that “he didn’t realize what he was wearing.”…
People who show up in our court with obscene or insulting T-shirts are given the chance to turn and wear them inside-out.
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2014, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-tales-of-people-being-inappropriately-dressed/693328/171 "2014-07-25T18:54:18Z")
> [@Debaser](#):
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> Maybe this will make you feel better:
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> Casual Friday isn’t for you. It’s for the women in the office. They love it. For guys it’s less comfortable and a hassle. But for women it’s more comfortable and a convenience.
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> So just think if it as doing an unappreciated favor for all the ladies at your workplace.
Huh? Casual is less comfortable and a hassle for guys?
I’m very thankful we have no such thing where I work. Every day is casual. Tee-shirts, jeans, sandals, what ever. Comfortable clothes.
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### Author:  [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2014, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-tales-of-people-being-inappropriately-dressed/693328/172 "2014-07-26T01:01:16Z")
I just went to the legendary Bear\_Napples Wedding thread here on the SDMB, hoping the picture links would still be live, but being a ten year old thread, of course they aren’t.
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### Author:  [@Arabella\_Flynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arabella_Flynn)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-tales-of-people-being-inappropriately-dressed/693328/173 "2014-07-26T03:08:19Z")
> [@Chefguy](#):
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> We were out hiking in the Blue Ridge Mountains many years ago. We navigated down a fairly steep hill to get to a nice waterfall, then started back up. On the way up, we met a woman coming down the gravelly slope, wearing high heels, a tight black leather skirt, and in full dragon-lady makeup and poofy hairdo. Twenty years later we still puzzle over that one.
Was there a guy with a camera nearby? I have been asked more than once to do shoots that involve full evening/clubbing dress and tromping around in the woods. I’ve run into it so much that I am beginning to think this is the photographer equivalent of sending the new guy off to the supply hangar to get fifty yards of flight line and a bucket of prop wash.
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