In message , at 13:26:16 on Fri, 13
Mar 2015, Neil Williams remarked:
You need to look into lightweight suits/jackets

Or just not wear a suit, which works for most employers these days.

The only employer I have to impress is myself.

On the other hand I do what I can, to fail to unimpress the people I'm
working with.

I went to a quite serious meeting in London yesterday and was in two
minds whether or not to wear a suit and tie.

The decision was a suit but no tie, and the result was that of the men
in the meeting: the chair and one other attendee were wearing a suit and
a tie, and myself and another were wearing a suit and no tie. Two other
men were wearing something more casual, which in the case of the most
casual was commented by other attendees on in a jokey, but not
necessarily positive, way.

Had the meeting been at the UN in Geneva (or somewhere similar), all the
men would have been wearing suit and tie - except a very few wearing
ethnic costume, which I don't at all disagree with, because a suit and
tie is precisely *my* ethnic costume.

But I draw a line at the bowler hat, just as the Aussies don't turn up
with corks dangling from their hats.

Apparently they "do things" for other men, which is why the women wear them.

I wonder what proportion.

The men or the women? Probably around 75% in both cases.
--
Roland Perry