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I always wear a very baggy 3-piece sequined suit with chrome-spiked suspenders/belt and steel tip boots. Oh and a pistol holster and a two handed sword scabbard.
It got confiscated along wight the all the garb. TSA so unreasonable.
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Originally Posted by Ameriscot
You had to dress up? I haven't flown in first (yet!) but have flown in business class about 4 or 5 times. I wear the same thing I always do. Never saw a need to dress nicer.
I sometimes fly with a full suit & tie because it's easier than packing it when I just need it for one occasion and light clothes can fit in my carry-on for the rest. I fly coach and get annoyed looks and extra hassle from TSA, not to mention confused questions when friends/fam pick me up at the other end and I'm in an expensive suit and our first stop is usually the beach. So, yes, dressing up is far from required today, and TSA seems to prefer sweats and a T with slip on shoes, and it's more comfortable anyways so who cares if it annoys old schoolers.
I sometimes fly with a full suit & tie because it's easier than packing it when I just need it for one occasion and light clothes can fit in my carry-on for the rest. I fly coach and get annoyed looks and extra hassle from TSA, not to mention confused questions when friends/fam pick me up at the other end and I'm in an expensive suit and our first stop is usually the beach. So, yes, dressing up is far from required today, and TSA seems to prefer sweats and a T with slip on shoes, and it's more comfortable anyways so who cares if it annoys old schoolers.
This puzzles me. First of all, why the tie? Certainly that doesn't take up a lot of room in your bag. And why annoyed looks and extra hassle from TSA? They deal with suited business travelers all the time. As long as you remove your shoes, belt and jacket, you're not really dressed any differently than anyone else.
Personally, I don't plan on wearing my travel clothes during the trip unless I have an opportunity to wash them. I always feel so ... ick ... after hours in planes and airports.
This puzzles me. First of all, why the tie? Certainly that doesn't take up a lot of room in your bag.
For the same reason that I'm wearing the suit -- so that it doesn't get wadded up and wrinkled in my carry-on (I use a small backpack for everything else). Hanging bags sort of keep things from getting wrinkled, but not compared to wearing it. Of course if its a long flight (3+ hours) and/or I need more than one set of dress clothes then I use a hanging bag.
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And why annoyed looks and extra hassle from TSA? They deal with suited business travelers all the time. As long as you remove your shoes, belt and jacket, you're not really dressed any differently than anyone else.
Removing belt, dress shoes (with laces), and jacket IS extra hassle, compared to just slipping off my merrells. Also, I've found myself pulled to the side more often in a suit because they want to check me closer, but that could just be random. As for annoyed looks, some people are just annoyed by people in suits because they think we're uptight snobs or whatever. But of course other people are annoyed by people in sweats, T and sandals because they think we're slobs or whatever. So I guess that part evens out. Most people are just annoyed by people who aren't them.
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I haven't been commercial flying (otherwise, different) in about 1.5 decades. But as such.......
.....boots to tuck my tickets in, jeans, Tac Shirt, carry on wooly pulley, maybe a leather jacket. This being all over the standard undies, tee, socks.
As such, it would probably mark me as a security agent for someone................
..............................but, unless I am on a dedicate mission not to appear as such, I'm likely to be dressed as such.
Which means, unfortunately, if anyone were to take the plane, they off'd me first just on general principle.
What, the annoyed looks, or the fact that some people are annoyed by people in suits? Because if it's the latter I know for a fact that it's not a figment of my imagination. But if you just meant looks then yeah, those can easily be mistaken.
Why are you pestering me about this anyways? I never said that YOU gave me dirty looks. Looks or not, people often see other people who dress, look or behave in a way that's contrary to their own preferences and get bugged by it.
What, the annoyed looks, or the fact that some people are annoyed by people in suits? Because if it's the latter I know for a fact that it's not a figment of my imagination. But if you just meant looks then yeah, those can easily be mistaken.
Why are you pestering me about this anyways? I never said that YOU gave me dirty looks. Looks or not, people often see other people who dress, look or behave in a way that's contrary to their own preferences and get bugged by it.
I'm not pestering you. I was curious about the reasoning behind your choices. And if people in suits are getting annoyed looks, it's usually for some other reason than their suit.
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