November 8, 2007: What Not to Wear...at the Census
When I arrived in DC earlier this week, I discovered that one of my shirts was stained. So today, on my last day on-site before flying back to Jacksonville, I'm wearing a white t-shirt with my jeans. In conjunction with the black leather jacket, I look like a lost cast member of Grease or Happy Days.
Aaaayyy!
The good news is that the bell curve of fashion here at the Census leans all too heavily toward the left.
The stages of Census fashion go as follows:
- During your first three months, you wear ties, skirts, or suits.
- During the next year or so, you go down to dress shirts or blouses.
- During the next ten years, you go down to polo shirts.
- During the next ten years, you go down to jeans.
- During your last few years, you do down to flip-flops, jogging suits, sweatshirts, and pajama bottoms.
Your last day can either be an apotheosis of slovenliness in which you arrive actually wearing a potato sack or a sudden upswing of taste if a director is coming to your retirement luncheon.
The white t-shirt stage veers all too closely to wrong end of that spectrum, so I'll have to play it off by being tough today.
Comments
Remember at BCBS when they said we could wear jeans and t-shirts for 2 weeks if we donate $5 to something, and then we ended up wearing it for the rest of the year anyway? Were you around for that?
Posted by: Richard | November 12, 2007 10:13 AM