Susan Collins is threatening to show up in a bikini. Josh Hawley is in jeans. But there’s a group of teenage Senate staffers whose dress code remains strict as ever.
There was a clever ad years ago for Gatorade. It was a monochrome image of a runner stretching before a run. The only color in the image was a bottle of Gatorade.
The tagline was "It shows you came to play."
How you dress at work or at play communicates your intentions. People recognize immediately if you are someone to reckon with or ignore. Are you serious? Or just joking around?
Frankly if your leadership tells you it doesn't matter how you dress. They are really telling you that it doesn't matter how you dress because you don't matter.
I'm glad so many Americans understand on a visceral level why Fetterman's disportment was a disgrace to your Senate and your nation. My stomach understands matters more quickly than my brain (I often think this is the definition of "Tory") and it is right about standards of dress. When my brain catches up it supplies this: dressing well shows respect for your peers *and for the institution you all serve*. The collapse in respect for institutional norms is at the heart of the mess in which we reside, and that collapse, of course, is not independent of those institutions' current members, of whom Fetterman is a useful example. He's a disgrace.
WAIT --- SUZY WEISS WAS ONLY 16 IN 2012??? O. M. G. I was born in ‘87 and thought she was at least as old as me. Feeling a little disoriented here. Idk what the article was about but fml I’m old. She was only 5 on 9/11?? Wow. Just wow.
I used to work for a Senator who had the candy desk for part of his term. Our office was always eating the candy we collected to stock it. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I fear the Senate will never be the same.
Fetterman rocks! Oops sorry-I meant that Fetterman has rocks in his head. I once was told that people tended to act like they dressed. Dress like a bum, then your tendency is to act the same. Dress like a gentleman, then....well, you get it.
There is a purpose to decorum. Would you go to a doctor who dressed like a beach bum? I think not.
Oh, that’s an easy one: Too tempting for half the members of Congress.
"The Senate, I thought, for the most part, was a highly subsidized assisted living facility. "
It's not even Friday yet and already Suzy Weiss is causing people everywhere to spit up their coffee. Truly great!
There was a clever ad years ago for Gatorade. It was a monochrome image of a runner stretching before a run. The only color in the image was a bottle of Gatorade.
The tagline was "It shows you came to play."
How you dress at work or at play communicates your intentions. People recognize immediately if you are someone to reckon with or ignore. Are you serious? Or just joking around?
Frankly if your leadership tells you it doesn't matter how you dress. They are really telling you that it doesn't matter how you dress because you don't matter.
The teens look sharp. I hope they stay that way, as opposed to their ridiculous elders. An important sign for hope is that they're not vegetables.
Fetterman is the epitome of what's wrong with American politics: its lack of seriousness, its self-indulgence, its navel-gazing narcissism.
Fetterman should be impeached. He's the antithesis of what a US Senator should be. Good thing Schumer backtracked on this dress code issue.
when Fettedman dies the Marine guard should show up in bsathrobes
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.” Mark Twain
I had to dress better for grade school.
I'm glad so many Americans understand on a visceral level why Fetterman's disportment was a disgrace to your Senate and your nation. My stomach understands matters more quickly than my brain (I often think this is the definition of "Tory") and it is right about standards of dress. When my brain catches up it supplies this: dressing well shows respect for your peers *and for the institution you all serve*. The collapse in respect for institutional norms is at the heart of the mess in which we reside, and that collapse, of course, is not independent of those institutions' current members, of whom Fetterman is a useful example. He's a disgrace.
Can you help get rid of Mr Softee and Liawatha "Get Me A Beer" Warren?
WAIT --- SUZY WEISS WAS ONLY 16 IN 2012??? O. M. G. I was born in ‘87 and thought she was at least as old as me. Feeling a little disoriented here. Idk what the article was about but fml I’m old. She was only 5 on 9/11?? Wow. Just wow.
Fetterman Is a narcissist. Loves the attention, but short on ability.
I used to work for a Senator who had the candy desk for part of his term. Our office was always eating the candy we collected to stock it. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I fear the Senate will never be the same.
At this point the Democrats noticed that they can mock and make fun of their voters and they will blindly continue to vote for them...
Fetterman rocks! Oops sorry-I meant that Fetterman has rocks in his head. I once was told that people tended to act like they dressed. Dress like a bum, then your tendency is to act the same. Dress like a gentleman, then....well, you get it.
There is a purpose to decorum. Would you go to a doctor who dressed like a beach bum? I think not.
In fairness to Fetterman, he might have thought 'dress code' meant he had to wear a dress.