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OK I will bite..

Collar
Yoke
Cuffs
Sleeves
Right front
Back
Left front

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You need to take them out or they leave a mark in the collar when they get pressed. I have a little pot of them. You just have to trim them with nail clippers.

Never wear cuff links, I think they look tacky, the exception being when wearing black or white tie. ;)

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Anarchist.

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I love cuff-links, esp with a double cuff. Took OH nearly two years to give up on ties. A sad day. Engineering is apparently more casual in Canada. These are the sacrifices we make to Mammon.

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I think generally the workplace is more casual in Canada.

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I have never really ironed shirts, dryer does good enough job... But I also don't wear dress clothes or fancy clothes.

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The only engineering firm I know here in Ottawa where the majority of the male engineers wear ties (and generally white shirts and not too crazy a tie) specialize in designing sewage treatment plants, tailing ponds, septic beds, bus depots, hydro transformer stations.

Tie sales are probably way down in Canada.

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:nod:
No coffee at the desk if you're facing public before I came here. Maybe just my job? But I see it all the time here.

Dress code very strict at my old job. (for the men, anyway :frown:)

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Except in the wedding video of course ;)

Who ironed that day? :lol:

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Hotels I have worked in have been that way, men always had to wear tie, and full suit so we suffered for 8 hours as the lobby in hotels is never comfortable temp for wearing a full suit for 8 hours, and of course uncomfortable for standing dress shoes.

Women had far more options, and could wear shot sleeves and skirts and more comfortable shoes.

Not sure why men always had to wear one specific thing and nothing else.

The hotel did...

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Dress code here is shorts and tshirts in summer and jeans and sweaters in winter... I miss dressing up...

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I am an engineering draftsman, when I left my company in the UK to come to Canada back in 2009, the majority of us wore a shirt and tie everyday. Then when I started my new company in Canada.....I wore a tie the first day....and that was the last day. However I still wore a dress shirt and dress pants right up until my last day. Many of my co workers wore jeans and tshirt and running shoes! not everyone though, it was a mix, but no ties.

Dress code in Canada (probably whole of North America) is a lot more casual, too casual in some cases, one guy I worked with came in wearing salmon coloured jeans, a green mutant ninja turtles tshirt and birkenstocks with white socks!! NO KIDDING!! we never let him forget that! he was a bit of an odd duck that lad! :confused:

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Yes I know what you mean....even when people go out socially its a lot more casual.... unless your in a big city in Canada, people in bars and resraurants there always seem to make more of a effort in their choice of clothes.

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Agreed. Hubby is old fashioned and he is only just starting to understand that he stands out like a sore thumb if he wears chinos and a blazer... recently the blazer has remained in the wardrobe! lol

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Does his tie curl up like Dilbert's?

https://pamgrout.files.wordpress.com...pg?w=200&h=333

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Good for him, I wouldnt leave the blazer in the wardrobe, nothing wrong with looking smart for a night out, and nothing wrong with standing out. Actually a blazer was always seen as a universal kind of jacket that could be dressed up or down.

The thing that got me was last New Years Ever I went to the Keg with some friends for dinner and then on to meet some other friends at a party somewhere else. So as a more casual compromise I wore some smart dark jeans, a dress shirt and a suit jacket. There were people at the Keg on new years eve wearing thshirts hoodies and running shoes! Fine for going camping but new years dinner or a party? Mind you this is Peterborough! anything goes! :rofl:

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The second day after moving to the west coast (US) I went out on a date and wore chinos and a blazer, I thought I'd make it a bit more casual by adding a polo instead of a dress shirt. I remember looking around the restaurant and realizing that I looked like an over dressed plonker.

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When I think of Peterborough Ontario high end fashion doesn't come to mind.

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You all sound like you're in the same club. Private school by any chance?

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You had a date with Oink? ;)

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We did actually. :p

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No it wouldn't!

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We are moving. At least it's a short move, same building just upstairs. 650sq feet instead of 450sq feet, and a bedroom. :thumbup:

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Nice! Are you still in the Wack?

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A combination of looking at potential trips to Mexico and watching Ozark on Netflix gave me a dream last night.

I was money laundering for some gang and I'd fallen out with them, needing to raise lots of cash to save my skin.

It involved claiming lots of refunds from Amazon but the refunds were in chosen currencies. The major difficulty was that the currencies had to "make sense" with the associated purchases.

It was immensely complicated, I had to almost complete the refund claims before I could see what currencies were available and sometimes I'd have to start again if the choice wasn't a good one. :rofl:

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Nearly right. At least, unlike these other heathens, you do the cuffs before the rest of the sleeve. But you really need to buck your ideas up, Sunshine, if you think it's acceptable to iron either side of the front before you've done the back! What on earth are you thinking?

;)

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Either stay off the jazz cigarettes or call Saul Goodman and he can set up a money laundering scheme for you to live out this fantasy. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

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Wow Bristol. Too much caffeine at night doesn't suit you!

I used to regularly dream I had killed my ex mother in law and hidden her body under the bed. I never knew how to dispose of the body... that dream came back time and time again during my marriage. Thank goodness my ex and I divorced or I might have dreamt up the perfect method and done it for real! 😱

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But you strike me as a planner. :lol:

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The thing that baffles me, it that there are a few high end clothing retailers in the downtown core, they market some really high quality clothes, and Ive never seen anyone wearing the stuff! Its even strongly marketed on local radio too! Its one of lifes real mysteries of how they stay in business! :confused:

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No. We have been in Vancouver since Feb.

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Time flies!

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:thumbsup:

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I am a planner which is probably why it was so difficult to figure out what to do with the body. I had vivid dreams at times where I would try to work out if I could get her out from under the bed and put her in a suitcase to get her out of the house. I even put her in the freezer several times as I didn't want the house to smell!

...I am so relieved I don't have those dreams anymore! lol:amen:

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Ah, so it was a sudden thing then. I was going on the basis you wouldn't have done the deed without planning body disposal, alibi etc. :lol:

https://cdn.someecards.com/someecard...body-ffbd8.png

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Now that's my definition of passive aggressive!

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Desperate times and desperate measures!!!!

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Time flies like an arrow,
Fruit flies like a banana.

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In the vein of "Before you criticise someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes", the point being that when they get pissed off you will already be a mile away and they will have no shoes.