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                	<title>Dressing For Business OR Dressing Casually</title>

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Even Ed Asner Needed to be Impressed!
 

The "Real" Business Casual World



"It's my brains that people hire me for, not my clothes..."

"Honey, do you think I need to go out and buy some new suits and ties for this?"

"It says here 'we allow appropriate business casual.' I wonder what that means?!" 



This subject will be talked about for years to come...so we'll get serious about it another time.



But in this Elegant Consulting newsletter, I wanted to poke a little fun about dressing casual (or what can be perceived as dressing casual.) 



Did you ever watch 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'? 

In this funny series starring Larry David, the creator of 'Seinfeld'....
Ed Asner plays a character who wants to change his will. 
(From an episode about a year ago.)

Here's what happens when he walks into the office: 

"Joel: (Offers his hand to introduce himself) "Hello sir...Joel Reynolds." 

Ed Asner: "Your Joel Reynolds..?" Looking curiously at his jeans and tee-shirt. 

Joel: "Yes I am...would you like to have a seat, sir?" He points to seat facing his. Ed Asner: "Yeah, in a minute...uh...I'm a little puzzled" He looks really awkwardly at Joel's clothes "What's this outfit... are you going to a Halloween party or what are you?..."

Joel, arms crossed defensively, awkwardly laughs, "It's casual Friday." 

Ed Asner: "Casual Friday, what does that mean?" 

Joel: "That means we just dress like we would at home." 

Ed Asner:" But you're not at home," He says incredulously and, obviously, flustered. Joel: "No, but it is casual Friday." 

Ed Asner: "Yeah, I know, you told me that already. What do you do on Casual Friday?" 

Joel : "Well, we just come in, do our work, but we dress...casually." He grins sheepishly. 

Ed Asner: "I don't like it."

Joel : "Well, it's just one day a week."  Trying to pacify him. "We wouldn't treat you casually..." 

Ed Asner: "Then why the hell you dressed that way!!?" 

Joel: Points to what he's wearing. "It's just..." 

Ed Asner: "I want you to be on cutting edge, man, whenever you're handling my business." 

Joel: "This is cutting edge." Pointing to his clothes again. 

Ed Asner: "I don't need this (expletive). You look like an (expletive) cowboy. You're JR, eh? Joel Reynolds, right? You belong in Dallas, not LA."

Joel: "I'm sorry...please...I..." Joel face turns ashen. He's just beside himself. 

Ed Asner: "You should be sorry because you just lost my account. You go wrangle somebody elses. Thank you very much." He walks out. 

Joel: "If you come back on a Monday or Tuesday..." He calls out to him. 

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Now, obviously this is fiction. However, I go into many offices and many elevators on a daily basis and there are two constants; one, I see many different "business casual" outfits when I'm in these surroundings AND two, all of those same people are happy with what they're wearing (otherwise, why would they have left for work that morning?) 

What is truly appropriate?...well that's a subject for another newsletter.

The point here is that, in this case, what one person thought was okay to wear was not perceived that way by the other.

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Your next Elegant Consulting newsletter will be written by one of you!! It will be a lot of fun...stay tuned. 

Stay well everybody,

Brad Twersky 
www.elegantconsulting.com 
732-672-6266

 
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