I understand where some of you are coming from with the whole not judging people by what they wear thing, but it happens. I'm a teacher, if I dress in jeans and a t-shirt how can I truly expect the parents of my students and my students themselves, as well as the administration of the place where I work to respect me as a professional?
With so many people nowadays complaining that they don't get treated like a "professional" (whatever that may mean to each person) but yet they dress like utter slobs at the workplace, what do they expect? There is a time and place for everything.
I was shocked last night, as my family and I went out for a very nice dinner for my Grandmother's 94th(
) birthday, and on the website of this restaurant chain (but classy-Ruth's Chris) they post a sort of dresscode and yet people were showing up there in clothing that was truly inappropriate. When the dress requirements state "Semi-casual to Formal", does semi casual mean leave the house looking like you rolled out of bed? Or for women or girls to wear pants cut so low you can almost get a dose of TWO cracks? (And I am serious here, I'm not referring to cleavage.)
Quite honestly, I don't think that because I think that people should dress nicely means that they respect me, it meas that they respect themselves enough not to look like a slob. If that makes me, in the words of Rudey, "plain old ridiculous" then fine. I'd rather be plain old ridiculous even if it is considered old fashioned.
*edited for typos*