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Originally Posted by sygazelle
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Originally Posted by BEM-S4
Ed Snider the billionaire owner of the Flyers among other things wore a Timex every day of his life.
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Oh, crap. I wasn't trying to disparage Timex at all. Sorry. I was just trying to draw a comparison with Jos A Bank suits. Both are fine products for their purposes, but certainly not considered high-end in terms of being well dressed.
In my experience, there is no correlation between how one dresses for business and their ability and results. So, to use what suit (or watch) a candidate is wearing as critical hiring criteria not the most important thing. Some of the smartest and most successful people I know are not fine dressers. |
Don't confuse how one dresses with what one is wearing. Let me explain. I hire people regularly. To build on VM's example, I'd hire someone with perfectly polished $100 Rockports on versus someone coming in for an interview with $2k Santonis thatbwere scuffed to hell. Forget the fact that I want people who are hungry and ready to work as opposed to fat and lazy, there's an attention to detail that's important to most jobs. People aren't; in my experience, careful in one aspect of life and careless in others.
You don't need to spend $10k to look good. My brother wears custom Brioni head to toe every single day and looks like shit most of the time. You can do just fine at suit supply if you take care of your shit.
And lots of really really smart people, like top 1% of 1%, dress like shit and can't carry on a conversation. But It doesn't matter. The rest of us "normal folk" have to look borderline respectable and sane.