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A post made in Off Topic intrigued me...

When I was younger I was brought up to believe that 'shirt tucked in' translated to 'correctly dressed'. The habit has stuck; I actually generally find it uncomfortable to have my shirt untucked, 'doesnt feel right'.

If i'm wearing a singlet or a t-shirt under a shirt, the underneath layer has to be tucked in. After that untucked is preferred... but not for the bottom layer.

Seems to me though that these days 'untucked' is the way. So whats your preference?

When I was in highschool (shit, 10 years ago!) having shirt tucked in was the ultimate in uncool - yet it was a uniform requirement. Students actively did the 'bare minimum' to make it look like the shirt was tucked in when it barely was (big overhangs, etc). Lots of time and effort wasted trying 'not' to tuck it in...

More recently, noting that most people in 'white collar' environments (excepting perhaps some areas of IT) generally are shirt or shirt+tie (tucked in)... i'm guessing people still don't like this?

(Side point: I work in a white-collar office environment where 'tucked in' is the accepted norm amongst 95% of the staff. Dress standard is 'smart-casual' requiring a shirt or tidy poloshirt (no tie); tucked in is the standard for shirts and for 'most' polo type shirts.)

Cheers
BJ

Is an interesting point you make & thinking back over the years and the jobs I have had there has been a progression towards the untucked look if you like.

I fall in to the "Tucked in when required for work/school (etc) but otherwise doesn't bother me."

in my current role (Test Analysts) I am quite fortunate that I don't have to deal with the general public in a customer facing role and we can pretty much wear what we like (with in reason) throughout any given week I can go from dress pants & shirt to jeans and casual shirt or jeans and t-shirt.

Thinking back to college or high school as its more commonly known now days like you untucked = uncool & it was a constant fight between the teachers & us students, one which was usually won by students after the lunchtime break and numerous games of touch or rugby

Preference....with jeans untucked, with dress pants usually tucked in

So in other words its governed by the 'level of dress' right?

Casual untucked, tucked in for smarter wear?

yeah would agree with that. there is the odd exception to that of course.

Smarter wear 95% of the time is tucked in, just gives a cleaner smarter look i guess

tie or no tie?
and the style of shirt lends itself to tucked or untucked.

ie tapered waist shirt with rounded lower hem would be untucked with collar flared out and no tie, but squared lower hem would be tucked most likely with a tie etc.

FCUKING TIES!!!! I HATE THEM!!! HATE HATE HATE!!

and i even have to wear one on a saturday

Tie...nope.....think that last time I wore a tie or close to it was as best man at my sister & brother in-laws wedding.

I mean how can a man be successful when the first thing he dose in the morning is tie a noose around his neck

I stopped wearing ties years ago. I hate them, it just feels so uncomfortable around my neck.

And for work, we've been supplied with shirts. Long sleeve dress shirts, which are tucked in. Mainly because these are the type of shirts that have a longish part at the back which is designed to be tucked in. So if you bend over, it doesn't come untucked.
If you've got a short back one, then untucked is usually fine.

We also have polo shirts, untucked.

Honestly what is the fuss with this? If its dress code tuck your shirt in... if you cant handle that you are too weak to survive as a human being and darwin is going to get you sooner or later...

Ties are uncomfortable... but you get used to them after a couple of months

On a side note i think we are getting lazier as time goes on, in my day (cant believe i just said that) if you had a job at pak'n'save you worked your butt off for your $5/hour... when im in the supermarket now they are all huddled in a group talking while the youngest one stacks baked beans...

I'm in the untucked category and I'm lucky that being in IT I can get away with it. Such as, today I'm on a customer site in jeans and a dress shirt and I'm still better dressed than the company owner and the majority of the staff (what do you expect from fashion retailers?!). Mind you, I don't really care about tucked/untucked... the main reason I do untucked is because of the size of my gut (bulges above and below the belt are bad, mkay!)

Having said all that I'll dress as the situation dictates. One customer is very conservative so whenever I visit them (very infrequently, thank goodness!) I pull out the suit and tie. Ties are bad. Evil. Satans revenge on men for something bad we might have once done to him.

Long sleeve shirt, always tucked in except if I'm wearing jeans/on site
short sleeve/t shirt untucked...


I dont mind wearing ties, they are cool/ lend a more professional air to you when you are dealing with major clients.

I HATE TIES!!


i have no choice in the matter, bloody annoying in the heat, and bloody annoying when you have to look under the bonnet of cars, and they look bloody silly

Long sleeve shirts for work, tucked in. Need some short sleeve ones.

Mr Revhead wrote:I HATE TIES!!


i have no choice in the matter, bloody annoying in the heat, and bloody annoying when you have to look under the bonnet of cars, and they look bloody silly

Hah, just remembered once at toyota down here the guy being under my bonnet reading my build plate, trying to hold his tie and hold a book and a pen all at the same time, looked like an idiot, i hope u have more grace

Depends, had to tuck it in for work at my old job. Will never work another job where I have to tuck a shirt in or wear a tie so it doesn't matter. I never tucked it in at high school and never went to detentions either . Being a polytech student no one cares how I dress so it doesn't matter at the moment either.

It depends on the kind of shirt too, most dress shirts look better untucked anyay.

im lucky i dont weair a shirt at school but if im going somewhere formail or somthing i will tuck it in if i HAVE to but wont apart from that, it feels all werd and clingya
lol

Dirtbag wrote:

Mr Revhead wrote:I HATE TIES!!


i have no choice in the matter, bloody annoying in the heat, and bloody annoying when you have to look under the bonnet of cars, and they look bloody silly

Hah, just remembered once at toyota down here the guy being under my bonnet reading my build plate, trying to hold his tie and hold a book and a pen all at the same time, looked like an idiot, i hope u have more grace

Thats what tie clips are for!

I dont tuck at work, the shirts we have are too short for it...with the amount of bending we do we'd be forever redoing them. Friday is casual.

Mmm, Boost wrote:I dont tuck at work, the shirts we have are too short for it...with the amount of bending we do we'd be forever redoing them. Friday is casual.

I thought it was the customers who get bent over at Repco

lucky i have above average eyes, i can read most build plates while standing

other wise its over the shoulder!

i hate tucking shirts in. and i hate wearing ties. so its f***n super i have to do both for my job!