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Age Appropriate Dress?
cybercat wrote: "-L." wrote in message ups.com... Enfilade wrote: snip Workout wear and t-shirts, the difference being that a "Juicies" brand tracksuit is $300, whereas I got a nice velour set at Stitches for $20. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Some people simply have too much money. Or, it could be that you just have too little. Certainly more than you do, Miss History Major. -L. |
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Age Appropriate Dress?
CatNipped wrote:
"Enfilade" wrote in message ps.com... I'm watching "The View" and one of their "hot topics" was whether women should stop wearing certain types of clothing as they get older (the example used was women who were over 40 shouldn't wear "Juicies" work-out clothes. You'll have to clue me in on this. I don't know what "Juicies" are. Workout wear and t-shirts, the difference being that a "Juicies" brand tracksuit is $300, whereas I got a nice velour set at Stitches for $20. *** I was ill a few years ago and lost a lot of weight. I was being sized for some kind of bracelet or watch and had to get a "large" size, much to the surprise of the sizer. I told her I had big bones. She said, "I used to think "big boned" was just how some people said "Fat" but you don't have any fat on you and yet the diameter of your wrist is really big..." You simply cannot start with the bodyframe of a Mack truck and expect to build a sportscar on it (At 130 pounds, friends and family thought I looked "Frighteningly anorexic." People always presume I'm 30 lbs lighter than I really am.) --Fil I certainly couldn't have used that as an excuse - every inch on me was something I shoved down my throat! I have what Ben calls "itty bitty birdie bones". My wrist is 5 3/4" around (I have to take out *ALL* the extra links in watch bands and they *STILL* don't fit tight enough). I wear a size 4 ring. I'm down to 125lb at 5'5" and I still look a bit chubby around the middle and upper arms - the ideal weight for my height and my frame starts at 110lb which, given my teeny tiny bones, I should be at. My "range" is 110lb to 125lb, so I'm *just* within my correct weight range. I don't know what charts you're looking at, but that's really, really low. The general guide is 100 lbs for 5 foot and 5 lbs for every inch over 5 foot, so you are just right. Under 125 for 5'5" is underweight, IMO and allows for absolutely NO muscle tone whatsoever. -- Britta "There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." -- Unknown Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album |
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Age Appropriate Dress?
jmcquown wrote: I'm much more comfortable in dresses, as a rule. At my last job the dress was "business casual" so most women came to work in slacks. I chose to wear dresses and skirts. I just feel less restricted in them. Jill I was the same way when I wore business clothing - skirts always seemed more comfortable to me, but part of that was the summers were so hot and we weren't allowed to wear shorts in the lab (but skirts were ok - go figure). I never wore jeans to work, not even on casual day - I just sort of felt that was disrespectful. -L. |
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[OT] Age Appropriate Dress?
"dopekitty" wrote in message
news:v8gDf.149325$AP5.22780@edtnps84... Yoj wrote: He feels that women should always wear dresses or skirts and men should wear skirts and ties. hehe.. really? skirts and ties or kilts and ties? Kristy giggling LOL! I guess that was a freudian slip. I'd love to see him in a skirt. Joy |
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Age Appropriate Dress?
"badwilson" wrote in message ... CatNipped wrote: "Enfilade" wrote in message ps.com... I'm watching "The View" and one of their "hot topics" was whether women should stop wearing certain types of clothing as they get older (the example used was women who were over 40 shouldn't wear "Juicies" work-out clothes. You'll have to clue me in on this. I don't know what "Juicies" are. Workout wear and t-shirts, the difference being that a "Juicies" brand tracksuit is $300, whereas I got a nice velour set at Stitches for $20. *** I was ill a few years ago and lost a lot of weight. I was being sized for some kind of bracelet or watch and had to get a "large" size, much to the surprise of the sizer. I told her I had big bones. She said, "I used to think "big boned" was just how some people said "Fat" but you don't have any fat on you and yet the diameter of your wrist is really big..." You simply cannot start with the bodyframe of a Mack truck and expect to build a sportscar on it (At 130 pounds, friends and family thought I looked "Frighteningly anorexic." People always presume I'm 30 lbs lighter than I really am.) --Fil I certainly couldn't have used that as an excuse - every inch on me was something I shoved down my throat! I have what Ben calls "itty bitty birdie bones". My wrist is 5 3/4" around (I have to take out *ALL* the extra links in watch bands and they *STILL* don't fit tight enough). I wear a size 4 ring. I'm down to 125lb at 5'5" and I still look a bit chubby around the middle and upper arms - the ideal weight for my height and my frame starts at 110lb which, given my teeny tiny bones, I should be at. My "range" is 110lb to 125lb, so I'm *just* within my correct weight range. I don't know what charts you're looking at, but that's really, really low. The general guide is 100 lbs for 5 foot and 5 lbs for every inch over 5 foot, so you are just right. Under 125 for 5'5" is underweight, IMO and allows for absolutely NO muscle tone whatsoever. It's usually given as a range to accomodate bone structure. Since bones weigh quite a lot, if you have large bones you have to count that in your weight estimates. If, like me, you have *really* tiny bones, then more of your weight will be fat. There's also different weights given for men (who tend to have more muscle mass which weighs more than fat). As Fil noted, some people at 5'5" look anorexic when they get below 140, some, like me, still look pudgy around the waist and upper arms at 125. -- Hugs, CatNipped See all my masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped/ -- Britta "There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." -- Unknown Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album |
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Workout wear and t-shirts, the difference being that a "Juicies" brand tracksuit is $300, whereas I got a nice velour set at Stitches for $20. *** Regarding designer clothes: If you've got $300 in spending money left over to spend as you please, I really don't care what a person chooses to spend it on as long as the purchase isn't harming anyone. There's little difference in buying $300 worth of DVDs, $300 worth of gold jewelry, $300 of theatre tickets, $300 of hardcover books, $300 on dinners out or $300 of designer clothes. None of those things are necessary, but that's the point of spending money. I don't think a track suit is worth $300. Then again, I've got a big toy collection and probably a lot of people would've chosen to spend the money I spent on my toy collection last year on something else. My complaint is not with people who like to buy designer clothes and can afford to do so; my complaint is with people who buy designer clothes while their kids go without lunch, and with people who spend the money on designer clothes instead of their rent, then complain about not having enough money. --Fil |
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[OT] Age Appropriate Dress?
On 2006-01-28, jmcquown penned:
Victor Martinez wrote: Wow... my employer is very, very relaxed regarding dress code. Many folks wear shorts, t-shirts and sandals to work. I'm talking engineers here, so it's not a pretty sight... ;-) Most people wear jeans/slacks and button-down shirts though. I'd never wear a t-shirt or shorts to work. People were allowed to wear T-shirts (tucked in) if they didn't sport a logo advertising some product or with anything that might be construed as "offensive" on it. This basically meant, plain T-shirts (and not the underwear ones). No sandals were allowed; no shorts. We didn't meet & greet the public in I.T. but they still expected people to not dress as if they were about to run to the convenience store for a 6-pack of Budweiser I can completely understand that. Geez. I'm glad I've never worked at a place with much in the way of clothing rules. I wear sandals, or shorts, or I dress up, or I don't, or I wear t-shirts with logos, untucked ... -- monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca |
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[OT] Age Appropriate Dress?
Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
On 2006-01-28, jmcquown penned: Victor Martinez wrote: Wow... my employer is very, very relaxed regarding dress code. Many folks wear shorts, t-shirts and sandals to work. I'm talking engineers here, so it's not a pretty sight... ;-) Most people wear jeans/slacks and button-down shirts though. I'd never wear a t-shirt or shorts to work. People were allowed to wear T-shirts (tucked in) if they didn't sport a logo advertising some product or with anything that might be construed as "offensive" on it. This basically meant, plain T-shirts (and not the underwear ones). No sandals were allowed; no shorts. We didn't meet & greet the public in I.T. but they still expected people to not dress as if they were about to run to the convenience store for a 6-pack of Budweiser I can completely understand that. Geez. I'm glad I've never worked at a place with much in the way of clothing rules. I wear sandals, or shorts, or I dress up, or I don't, or I wear t-shirts with logos, untucked ... You're lucky. Beware if you change jobs; you might be in for dress-code shock. I've *never* worked anywhere I could wear shorts. Jill |
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[OT] Age Appropriate Dress?
On 2006-01-31, jmcquown penned:
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: Geez. I'm glad I've never worked at a place with much in the way of clothing rules. I wear sandals, or shorts, or I dress up, or I don't, or I wear t-shirts with logos, untucked ... You're lucky. Beware if you change jobs; you might be in for dress-code shock. I've *never* worked anywhere I could wear shorts. Er, I've had three different full-time jobs since graduating from college, with three different companies and three different industries. The only commonality is that I was a software engineer in all three of them. I'll happily dress nicely for a customer meeting, but I don't see the point in a dress code for people who never interact with customers. As a software professional, I am expected to get the job done, even if that means working nights and weekends. The good companies aren't going to fret over how I dress. Oh, and my current company's clients are all financial industry companies. Before that, I worked in the aerospace industry, and before that, for a defense contractor. The aerospace company was the only one with an actual dress code, but the technical managers actively ignored us. Someone did post a "friendly reminder" in the coffee area that we were not supposed to wear shorts .... this at a time when many of us were doing shift work (2pm-midnight, etc) and working weekends to get the job done. A co-worker tore down the reminder, and the managers told us to ignore it. I do dress more nicely than I did at my first job, but that has to do with how I wish to be seen, not with company policy. In fact, I bought a bunch of nice clothes for my latest job, intending to turn over a new leaf. But everyone here wears jeans, trail shoes, and tee shirts (the front range uniform), so I felt conspicuous, especially when a guy asked me if I had an interview that day! I absolutely agree that a lot of companies have dress codes. I think it's appropriate to dress well in certain environments, but I think it's silly to insist that people who have no customer interaction dress up to please the management. -- monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca |
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Age Appropriate Dress?
CatNipped wrote:
"badwilson" wrote in message ... CatNipped wrote: "Enfilade" wrote in message ps.com... I'm watching "The View" and one of their "hot topics" was whether women should stop wearing certain types of clothing as they get older (the example used was women who were over 40 shouldn't wear "Juicies" work-out clothes. You'll have to clue me in on this. I don't know what "Juicies" are. Workout wear and t-shirts, the difference being that a "Juicies" brand tracksuit is $300, whereas I got a nice velour set at Stitches for $20. *** I was ill a few years ago and lost a lot of weight. I was being sized for some kind of bracelet or watch and had to get a "large" size, much to the surprise of the sizer. I told her I had big bones. She said, "I used to think "big boned" was just how some people said "Fat" but you don't have any fat on you and yet the diameter of your wrist is really big..." You simply cannot start with the bodyframe of a Mack truck and expect to build a sportscar on it (At 130 pounds, friends and family thought I looked "Frighteningly anorexic." People always presume I'm 30 lbs lighter than I really am.) --Fil I certainly couldn't have used that as an excuse - every inch on me was something I shoved down my throat! I have what Ben calls "itty bitty birdie bones". My wrist is 5 3/4" around (I have to take out *ALL* the extra links in watch bands and they *STILL* don't fit tight enough). I wear a size 4 ring. I'm down to 125lb at 5'5" and I still look a bit chubby around the middle and upper arms - the ideal weight for my height and my frame starts at 110lb which, given my teeny tiny bones, I should be at. My "range" is 110lb to 125lb, so I'm *just* within my correct weight range. I don't know what charts you're looking at, but that's really, really low. The general guide is 100 lbs for 5 foot and 5 lbs for every inch over 5 foot, so you are just right. Under 125 for 5'5" is underweight, IMO and allows for absolutely NO muscle tone whatsoever. It's usually given as a range to accomodate bone structure. Since bones weigh quite a lot, if you have large bones you have to count that in your weight estimates. If, like me, you have *really* tiny bones, then more of your weight will be fat. There's also different weights given for men (who tend to have more muscle mass which weighs more than fat). As Fil noted, some people at 5'5" look anorexic when they get below 140, some, like me, still look pudgy around the waist and upper arms at 125. Well, some of your pudgyness on waist and upper arms may be because of extra skin from when you were bigger. If it's been 2 years since you lost the weight, the skin won't retract any further and you'd need a tummy tuck or whatever. Losing any more weight probably won't make much of a difference. You're best non-surgical bet would be to lift weights and build up some muscle under the skin, this will make you more "solid". I have a small bone structure too, my wrist is also 5 3/4 inches and I wear a size 5 ring. I'm 5'6" and right now I weigh 133. I have a little roll below my belly button that I find grotesque but other people claim is in my imagination. I'm not too worried about it. I was down to 125 a couple of times but could only maintain that for a few days. I can maintain 130 quite well. I've been bad lately because my motivation to work out has left me. I plan to get back at it once we're in Australia. For now, all I can do is focus on getting everything done to get us out of here! -- Britta "There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." -- Unknown Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album |
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