1183: Suit Up

I was exceedingly bored today, so rather than sitting around in my pants as I usually do I decided to put on my suit for no reason other than for the hell of it.

Well, there were a few reasons, to be honest. I’m not a particularly vain type, as anyone who has met me and seen the state of my hair (both -cut and facial) will attest, but I’ve never quite been comfortable with my “look”, for want of a better word. I don’t really have a signature “look” unless you count “jeans and (usually) geeky T-shirt” as a “look”, and I’m not sure I do, because that involves pretty much the minimum amount of effort possible that enables you to go outside and not be arrested.

I also wanted to see if there was any truth to the pseudo-psychological theory that if you dress “professionally” you’ll be in a more “worky” frame of mind.

I’ve also been watching a lot of Friends recently and noted that most of the male characters in that spend a lot of time wearing suits. (This was, of course, followed up by the character of Barney in How I Met Your Mother, who makes wearing a suit into an explicit character trait rather than something that “just is”.)

So what were my conclusions?

Umm… to be honest, I’m not sure I really have anything particularly… conclusive. That said, wearing a suit is more comfortable than I remember, though it can get a bit hot and stuffy if you keep the jacket on.

Did I feel more “confident” and “professional”, though?

I can’t really say with any certainty. This is perhaps largely to do with the fact that I put it on once I had done all my paid work for the day and was taking a wander into town to sit in various coffee shops and post things on Games Are Evil then work on my game a bit. To my credit, I did get quite a lot done, but I think this may be more to do with the amount of coffee I consumed and my surroundings than what I was covering myself up with. Or perhaps it was part of the whole equation.

Oh well. I can’t say it was a particularly unpleasant experience, anyway. And since I’m working from home and not in an office, it’s about the only airing this suit gets apart from weddings (yes, people I know who got married in the last year, I wore the same suit to your wedding that I “just wear” or put on for job interviews) or job interviews (yes, people who interview me, I wear the same suit to your interview that I wear to my friends’ weddings) so I might as well give it a day out every so often.

Am I going to “suit up” as my “new look” though? Probably not. I have far too many geeky T-shirts that I actually like showing off. (No-one has recognised my Deadly Premonition one yet, frustratingly.)