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jacki
10-31-2005, 07:05 PM
I'm wearing khaki pants and a button-down dress shirt at work. No tie.
I spaced out and forgot to put on my belt.


Do I leave my shirt tucked in and look like a dork, or pull my shirt out and look sloppy?
gulebjorn
10-31-2005, 07:05 PM
Take the shirt off.
miajag81
10-31-2005, 07:06 PM
Tough call. I untuck, because I can't stand the "tucked-in-no-belt" look.
Shajen
10-31-2005, 07:06 PM
sloppy.
swede123
10-31-2005, 07:08 PM
This is why you keep a sweater or something you can wear over the dress shirt, covering your belt-less waist. If this is not an option I have to go with tucked in and dorky looking. Wearing a dress shirt untucked is a worse style offense.

Swede
diebitter
10-31-2005, 07:10 PM
Tuck in the left, and leave out the right. You'll look interesting.
peterchi
10-31-2005, 07:24 PM
I definitely go sloppy

That is, if no one will yell at you. I don't really know much about dress code etiqutte; I work in an academic lab so some people just wear t-shirts.
swede123
10-31-2005, 07:26 PM
I see that I'm definitely in the minority suggesting going tucked in and belt-less. I still think that a workplace with a dress code would be more opposed to someone wearing his shirt un-tucked than a belt-less dork.

Obviously at my job I'd just take my pants off and go Donald Duck style, that way people won't worry about your belt one way or another.

Swede
JohnnyHumongous
10-31-2005, 07:29 PM
duck out and buy a belt

failing that, tucked in no belt. i've seen it done by my co-workers and I presumed it was just intentional...
Los Feliz Slim
10-31-2005, 07:32 PM
I have done this recently, and remained tucked and beltless. Untucking is just giving up altogether.
lapoker17
10-31-2005, 07:35 PM
If your pants are flat-front i.e. no pleats, then tucked-in no-belt is fine and is actually stylish and cool.

If you're rocking the pleats, untuck - and then throw the pants away and buy some flat-fronts after work.
wayabvpar
10-31-2005, 07:37 PM
[ QUOTE ]
Tuck in the left, and leave out the right. You'll look interesting.

[/ QUOTE ]


Ahh, the Gretzky. A classic look.
TheWorstPlayer
10-31-2005, 08:00 PM
Tuck. Brits do that often. You'll look exotic...and dorky. But that's better than sloppy.
jacki
10-31-2005, 08:37 PM
Results:

I start work at about 3:30pm and work until 12 or 1am.
I kept it tucked in until about 6pm, when most of the bigwigs are out of the office.
I'm now untucked and sloppy for the rest of the night.

There's really no dress code per se. But I'm middle management, so I need to look decent I think.
10-31-2005, 08:54 PM
Go buy a belt on the way to work.
tonypaladino
10-31-2005, 09:04 PM
I would never tuck with no belt. If you can't buy a belt, pull it out.
housenuts
10-31-2005, 09:41 PM
make a belt out rope and hang yourself
ReDeYES88
10-31-2005, 09:42 PM
find some rope and go jethro
tonypaladino
10-31-2005, 09:51 PM
http://img494.imageshack.us/img494/9421/pdvd4972up.jpg
OtisTheMarsupial
10-31-2005, 10:35 PM
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duck out and buy a belt


[/ QUOTE ]Exactly. Take a coffee break and get a belt.