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Originally Posted by LeftCoaster
Hmm I normally agree with you on a lot of your points but I'm going to have to go ahead and say you're way off base with this one.
suits are falling more and more out of favour, not just in Vancouver, but here in Toronto and I can only assume Montreal. Ties were the mainstay, even just a few years ago when I started working, now I'm one of the very few in my office on Bay St who still wears one. And Calgary, a lesson in good fashion? I have a lot of good things to say about Calgary, but it's one of the worst dressed cities I've ever been to. I swear they try to find the worst fitting suits available.
As for that pic of the postmedia staff, I don't know what you would expect from the staff in a branch office of a dying industry at a struggling company. Suits are the least of their concern these days.
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First of all, I want to say that this off topic convo was my bad, sorry
Well, if we always agreed with each other that would just be weird, haha.
For the Calgary comment, I was not so much saying that they have the best fashion, but that they do have their own identity fashion wise.
I guess it is just a mix of a few things that makes me appreciate suits / well dressed fashion. I have always been big on presentation (my past jobs involving photography and video production). So I feel that clothing, like anything else, is one's personal presentation, and looking professional at work is something to be admired and reflects an understanding of respect IMO.
I love it when women wear nice fashion / dresses. I understand that takes effort. So, I feel in return it is only appropriate that I try my best to look nice in return (if not I would feel hypocritical).
And, as I said before, I like that separation between work and home / personal time that wearing a suit (or dressing up nice) creates. It helps me remain in the work mindset and makes relaxing at home feel that much better. (I still like to dress up nice when I go out for fun too, unless it is an exercise / nature related excursion of course).
So I guess that is the hear of my feeling towards this issue. And you kind of proved my point about how they even look like a dying business in that image.
The funny thing is on the forum I often see people commenting on how nice everyone looked in the old photos posted of Vancouver from the 50s and 40s. No reason why we cant still dress as nice now. Not everything in the past was horrible, and not every modern trend is wonderful. People wearing t-shirts and yoga pants to an office job is the same to me as sea foam spandrel on towers is to many on here. It gets the job done, but it is the lowest amount of effort and too much starts to look like a mess.
My last post on this issue in this thread (and yes, I am wearing a suit now, haha).
PS, on google Japan if you key word search "sea foam spandrel" the first thing that pops up is the Rogers Arena Tower.
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