Usually trousers (really like the Eddie Bauer Ranier pants and shorts), golf shirt, grip6 belt, hiking boots and good socks. Bose QC35s if I’m in the data center. One customer makes me wear a safety vest. If I’m working weekends, in some data centers it’s warm enough for shorts (I’m not doing hardware installs).
If I’m working at home, whatever I slept in plus a shirt.
IT person as well, generally just jeans, sneakers (or other shoes) and some kind relatively plain shirt. Whatever is comfortable and does not contain any shocking images.
Dark colors that hide dirt and grease to an extent & don’t have visible branding. Bonus if it has high durability that still allows movement. Plus some high-vis gear and other PPE.
My normal street clothes. Jeans and a T-shirt or sweater. In job interviews I wear jeans and a button-down shirt, and look at how others are dressed. If everyone wears a suit, the job won’t be a good fit for me. Yes, I’m in IT.
PJs. I work from home. Just wake up, stand up and sit in my desk. Unless I have a very specific meet I just stay in my confy PJs. Meetins that require open cameras I just change the top
Used to do that, but I underestimated how important it is to do something before work. Eat, watch an episode of something, take a shower, anything. Going straight to my desk to work was depressing as hell for me.
Whatever I want. Usually PJs. The three times a year I go into the office, it’ll be a tank top, jeans, and combat boots or high tops, generally all black or dark grey. I’ll also wear a plaid flannel over the tank top if it’s chilly in the office. I save my dressing up for the office Christmas party and shock the hell out of everyone.
A well fitted suit looks really nice imo. It gives you the same kind of silhouette as someone who’s really buff. If it’s poorly fitted, then I agree, it would look like school uniform that’s sized up so that the kid grows into it.
Long pants that can’t be jeans or have to many pockets. Collared shirt and a thing that goes over the shirt and keeps you warm. It’s woolen and soft.
When I buy clothes I just find a maniken that looks like a business guy and then I buy 3 pairs of what he is wearing. So I’ve got like 5 different outfits and 3 of each outfit and I rotate them. When I first started I wore the same thing every day like an npc.
I wear whatever the fuck I want. I once had a sort of boss (not a line manager just a coordinator. Our team were all contractors and didn’t really report to one person as such). She saw me crossing the office one day and pulled me aside to tell me I had to wear a shirt and tie from now on. Anyway, I just said “nope”, and walked off.
She had been trying shit like this on our team for a while and we knew we could just ignore her about this stuff. Still satisfying though.