Comments on: 10 More Easy Ways to Look Unprofessional

By: Learning From Others - Romance, giving, and leadership

Learning From Others - Romance, giving, and leadership — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:27:07 +0000

[...] How we dress often portrays how we feel about ourself, and can shape others opinion of us. Clever Dude walks us through some clothing choices that make us look unprofessional. [...]

By: Clever Dude

Clever Dude — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:57:36 +0000

BripBlap: I’m not saying that wearing the same pants in a week is bad. Heck, I wear mine 2-4 times before sending them to the cleaner (hence how I get my money’s worth per wear. I don’t like ironing either). It’s just the exact same outfit (shirt, pants, tie, etc.). That’s why guys have it easier than women. We can wear a white shirt and black pants and no one will know we wore it yesterday. However, it’s a darn boring outfit.

Baz: Not much is worse than someone hanging onto a few scraggly pieces of facial hair because they think it makes them look older. Believe me, shave it off because people see through it anyway. There are only a few people who can really pull off a mustache, beard or other variant (I saw a good stache on the train yesterday. The guy looked like a young Tom Selleck.

BookwormDragon: Dang! I forgot that one! B.O., perfume/cologne/smoke are the trifecta of horrible, unprofessional smells. Every one gives me headaches to be around. Bripblap has some good advice there. I just don’t wear cologne anymore. I have bottles from 15 years ago in the closet.

By: Brip Blap

Brip Blap — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:42:33 +0000

@Bookwormdragon: It’s funny you say that. I used to work at a cosmetics/perfume company, and one of the things they really like to promote in customers is a strong sense of brand loyalty. Not that most companies don’t, but the reason why always struck me as having unpleasant consequences. If you wear the same brand of aftershave/cologne/perfume/etc. every day, you get used to it. You can’t smell it. So you hit yourself up one more time and one more time again until you do. It makes you a disgusting stench bomb (no perfume smells good overapplied) but you run out of it quicker.

I thought this was very clever. Actually there’s no need to apply any scent directly to yourself – spray it in the air, then walk through the cloud. And don’t put it on your clothes, apply it to your bare skin.

I can’t believe I just gave a beauty tip. Time to change my blog theme. Gah. Must go watch football.

By: The Daily Dough (My Back is Killing Me edition) » The Dough Roller

The Daily Dough (My Back is Killing Me edition) » The Dough Roller — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:21:11 +0000

[...] 10 More Easy Ways to Look Unprofessional @ The Clever Dude: Keep the unibrow was my favorite. I wonder if Clever Dude works in my office. [...]

By: BookwormDragon

BookwormDragon — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:10:07 +0000

My number one peeve is people who wear too much perfume. Nothing like being forced to spend 8 hours in a cubicle next to someone who apparently hooked up their perfume or cologne bottle directly to the shower head. Mind you, I dislike most common scents anyway, but when someone wears enough of some scent that I can smell it all the way across the call center, well, my workday is totally ruined. One brief spritz to your wrist is all you need, honest. Maybe you can’t smell it yourself, but I promise you, the rest of us can.

By: Baz L

Baz L — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:52:57 +0000

Hey,

I’m taking offense to that beard and mustache thing. I can’t afford to shave, I already have “one of those faces”, so if there’s not beard I look like I’m 14. Now there’s a way to look unprofessional.

By: Brip Blap

Brip Blap — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:49:31 +0000

Very funny stuff. I actually vaguely mess up on the wear-different outfits stuff because I’m lazy. It’s clean, don’t get me wrong, but I will wear the same khakis and golf shirt twice in a week, laundry permitting. I’m not proud. I wish I could dress like Agent Smith at work, particularly with the sunglasses – that might give me that intimidating edge I’ve been missing.

And just to give you an idea of my workplace, #2 is a problem EVERYWHERE. And not in the good way. My next-cube neighbor has buttons that scream for deliverance to the next life…

By: lulu

lulu — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:38:22 +0000

I just got to the bottom and I have to disagree with your last statement.
1. What if you wear a uniform (ok that was being a devil’s advocate here.)

2. What if you just started the job and you are dead broke and only have one pair of pants and three shirts to go to work. If you work five days a week then you will be wearing the same thing twice…..even if you wash it.

By: lulu

lulu — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:35:13 +0000

I know this is serious stuff, but the UniBrow section just had tears coming out of my eyes because I was laughing so much.

By: mapgirl

mapgirl — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:26:29 +0000

Nick has always been very nattily dressed when I’ve seen him, *especially* since he’s coming from work. The work badge on display is the prime accessory. I thought you were saying he wasn’t up to snuff!