I don't wear a tie on the grounds that if I'm going to have a noose around my neck I'm going to have had a lot more fun than turning up at any office. Given the way the average office worker looks in a cheap suit scrunched tight with a bad tie, I find it hard to see how that's much of an improvement over turning up in a pair of bermuda shorts and flip flops.
Brown shoes are fine. Just please, oh god please, not with blue suits, and definitely, for the sake of the blessed lachrymose jesuskitten itself, not bright, jangly royally blue suits. This seems to be a wedding thing, I had my retinas pummelled by another sighting of this phenomenon the other day, and more worrying was the fact it has spread stateside. There on the pavement outside the reception venue was the bride, resplendent in a waterfall of elegant cream, which even as a not yet internationally recognized expert on frocks, I could appreciate. Then next to her, atop those brown shoes was the zaffre-suited beacon of fashion stupidity himself. If that wasn't bad enough, as though he hadn't already started the WW1 of colour, he managed to top it with a huge explosion of ginger hipster beard. O the horror, the horror.
Where's the damn fashion rant thread?
