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Banks have more employees than just the tellers. Going by her description, I assumed she was talking about executives, loan officers, and the like, not the grunt-level employees. Those two groups are worlds apart in how they dress. When she says "the other half", she means high earners.
I had to go into Austin today to one of my banks. My day to day business clothes are western boots, jeans, tee, "tac" shirt (ie, http://cdn.atlantictactical.com/imag..._62070_005.jpg (the top, not the rest of it)). It works for me, keeps me warm in computer spaces, protects me from the sun and heat, lets me move through brush easily, room for carrying pens, papers, check books, etc..).
But nevertheless, what a sore thumb I must be in that yuppy type world. Fancy cars, people walking around in khaki slacks, and fancy button down shirts......their ID cars handing from their necks (I don't knock the last, been wearing neck ID's and now neck wallets for close to 2 decades). So handsome, so beautiful, so much not me.
It's not as bad when I go to San Antonio to see my broker. Perhaps it is a different section of town, but in any event, one is not struck with the impact of what a "beautiful" city Austin is.
Of course, I know it is all a misconception, seeing that beauty, thinking what a great place it would be to live. Yes....if you are mega rich.
Further, there is another aspect to it as well. I'm a client, not a worker there. It really doesn't matter how I dress.
I'm not sure what you're after. Are you asking us for a response? I live in Houston, and the western look is not common here. But it definitely is in the more rural areas of Texas. I have lived all over the state (Palestine, Gatesville, Amarillo, Tyler, Dallas, and all over the Houston area), and I've seen it a lot, especially in smaller towns in the east and western parts of the state. My sister lives just outside of Austin, and I agree, the western look isn't very common there either. In the larger cities, the residents usually dress more urban.
I'm not sure what you're after. Are you asking us for a response? I live in Houston, and the western look is not common here. But it definitely is in the more rural areas of Texas. I have lived all over the state (Palestine, Gatesville, Amarillo, Tyler, Dallas, and all over the Houston area), and I've seen it a lot, especially in smaller towns in the east and western parts of the state. My sister lives just outside of Austin, and I agree, the western look isn't very common there either. In the larger cities, the residents usually dress more urban.
Why'd they name a place Palestine in Texas . Makes no sense, especially in a republican stronghold.
The same sort of thing happens up north. Year round, I tend to wear my snowmobile suit, winter toque and sorel boots. Just the other day I went to the bank and got a few funny looks from the people in slacks and shoes.
I like that look - the link pic, she could gut a deer in that or split some wood- a nice adventurous, look
I like that look better than many of the girly girl looks,
I don't know, rather an awkward mounting of the spare magazines. Assuming she is right handed and is covering the target with the pistol while she reloads a magazine, she needs to flip and rotate the magazine to put it in the pistol, not just flip it such as if the rounded edge was facing aft in the magazine holster.
You responded to a post and short discussion about bank tellers, and implied she was talking about "bank employees" in general. I was clarifying that she seemed pretty clearly to be talking about higher-level employees only.
You responded to a post and short discussion about bank tellers, and implied she was talking about "bank employees" in general. I was clarifying that she seemed pretty clearly to be talking about higher-level employees only.
Well, actually, no, I was just talking to bank tellers. All I needed was a 1099 on tax day and you can get those from bank tellers.
She didn't say anything about bank tellers. In my observation around the Southwest (or anywhere, these days), bank tellers tend to look cheap and tacky. The days of tellers wearing suits are way behind us. Now they wear T-shirts or seriously low-cut blouses and huge long fingernails painted like an op-art canvas. Their taste in clothes is from a radically different world than the people the OP was describing. I don't know if bank tellers in Austin, specifically, are any different, but I doubt it.
Usually the tees are mandated clothing with bank logos and most often the work requires pants not skirts. The days where a teller dressed in business clothing is long gone. We dressed in business dress when I started in banking in 1985, but when I left in 1998, I was in nice pants and cotton shirts, with "dressy" Keds. Skirts were out when you had to heave large bags of coins from one place to another, pull heavy large safety deposit boxes from the bottom of the vaults and heave them too and fro.... by the time I left, tellering was getting close to manual labor.
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. Makes no sense, especially in a republican stronghold.
