I forgot to wear a belt
 

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?

Re: I forgot to wear a belt
 

Take the shirt off.

Re: I forgot to wear a belt
 

Tough call. I untuck, because I can't stand the "tucked-in-no-belt" look.

Re: I forgot to wear a belt
 

sloppy.

Re: I forgot to wear a belt
 

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

Re: I forgot to wear a belt
 

Tuck in the left, and leave out the right. You'll look interesting.

Re: I forgot to wear a belt
 

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.

Re: I forgot to wear a belt
 

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

Re: I forgot to wear a belt
 

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...

Re: I forgot to wear a belt
 

I have done this recently, and remained tucked and beltless. Untucking is just giving up altogether.

Re: I forgot to wear a belt
 

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.

Re: I forgot to wear a belt
 

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Tuck in the left, and leave out the right. You'll look interesting.

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Ahh, the Gretzky. A classic look.

Re: I forgot to wear a belt
 

Tuck. Brits do that often. You'll look exotic...and dorky. But that's better than sloppy.

Re: I forgot to wear a belt
 

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.

Re: I forgot to wear a belt
 

Go buy a belt on the way to work.

Re: I forgot to wear a belt
 

I would never tuck with no belt. If you can't buy a belt, pull it out.

Re: I forgot to wear a belt
 

make a belt out rope and hang yourself

Re: I forgot to wear a belt
 

find some rope and go jethro

Re: I forgot to wear a belt
 

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Re: I forgot to wear a belt
 

[ QUOTE ]
duck out and buy a belt


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