Do you treat them differently?

[MrToolhung]

I do find when I dress nicely I do get treated differently. However, I wear a suit everyday I go to work so on my off days I do dress down. It drives my partner crazy because he wants to me to dress up. He never wins though!

 

[Bbucko]

I think you can use that in more ways too. "Suits" can mean "goverment types" too I think, who work in within the goverment.. I've heard people refer to them as "suits" or such. They're usually portraited as cold, heartless people who only obey the goverment and go by the law, such as, for example the IRS. :tongue: Not 100% sure though..

Yeah, nothing screams "suit" more than an IRS agent or someone from the FBI. There's also that "good boy out of his element" best seen in the Scorsese
film After Hours. If you've never seen it, but in your Netflix queue; another great using the same suit-type is Jeff Daniels in Something Wild, another brilliant and under-appreciated movie.

 

[TheScotsman]

I do this all the time, people form their opinions quite swiftly on appearances (sad but true) and clothing can definitely help shape that. I generally like to dress quite smart and like the effect it has on people, but at the same time I like dressing in dull hoodies and sweatshirts if I'm popping out to the shops and don't really want any attention.

I work alot with people in suits in high-powered jobs and I find sometimes dressing casually around them can have a weird effect too. It's as though they perceive I must have some specialist skill or expertise that allows me to come in to the office wearing jeans and not bothering to tuck my shirt in. It's a different story when clients are involved though, and I'll generally always dress "eccentrically smart" as it seems known in my job. It's kind of expected that I don't look like a businessman, in a way.

 

[arkfarmbear]

In a previous job I worked for a Fortune 25 company based in New York. My company was based in Dallas but most of the top positions were held by New York natives. We were required to dress in full suit/shirt/tie. Casual Fridays were a trend that didn't roll around for another 3 decades.
The division I worked for was in the natural resources (oil and gas) division. Therefore, it was common to travel to the field offices and out to the drilling rigs. Needless to say, we didn't dress in office attire at the rigs and vice versa.
I often would work in the Dallas office on Monday mornings and fly to the division office later that afternoon. I would fly home Friday afternoon.
Thanks to the New York office we were allowed to fly first class.
I was dismayed to soon discover the difference in how I was treated depending on my appearance.
On Monday we were treated like royalty from the time we checked in. Once on the plane the service was magnificent.
When returning on Friday we wore our "rig attire". Jeans, flannel shirt, boots. I've always hated to shave so I took advantage of being in the field and didn't shave during the week. This was in the days before the Don Johnson look became de rigeur. I definitely looked "scruffy" and stood out in a crowd.
The difference in the treatment I received on the plane was unbelievable. My boarding pass was often scrutinized before the flight attendant would allow me to claim my seat. Other flight attendants would ask for it again.
After this had happened a few times I mentioned it to a friend who was a flight attendant. She said it was probably uninentional.
She said passengers in warm-ups were not permitted in first class unless the person had paid for a first class seat. Flight attendants are allowed to invite passengers in coach to move into 1st class if empty seats were available. They were supposed to invite people who were attractive and well dressed/groomed and looked like they belonged in first class.