16th November 2005, 02:59 PM
This childish attitude to dress codes works both ways.
Archaeologists typically despise people in suits, interpreting the suits as symbols of a self-important attitude. People in suits typically despise archaeologists, because they look like a bunch of 'new age travellers'. Both of them miss the point completely.
The point is nothing to do with either self-importance or hippy attitudes. It is about two things:
1. dressing appropriately for the work you are going to do, and
2. helping other people to recognise your role.
If you are going to spend your day wielding a trowel/mattock/shovel etc., you dress appropriately for that role. If you are going to attend a meeting with other profesional people, then it is only sensible to dress appropriately for that role too.
1man1desk
to let, fully furnished
Archaeologists typically despise people in suits, interpreting the suits as symbols of a self-important attitude. People in suits typically despise archaeologists, because they look like a bunch of 'new age travellers'. Both of them miss the point completely.
The point is nothing to do with either self-importance or hippy attitudes. It is about two things:
1. dressing appropriately for the work you are going to do, and
2. helping other people to recognise your role.
If you are going to spend your day wielding a trowel/mattock/shovel etc., you dress appropriately for that role. If you are going to attend a meeting with other profesional people, then it is only sensible to dress appropriately for that role too.
1man1desk
to let, fully furnished