gloopy

The APU Sheriffs can rock authoritative insignia like Times Square but the uniform police have to be undercover. Internal Affairs style. The hammer of justice swings quietly but falls hard. If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.

gloopy

Most "long sleeve guys" I've met wear them either because of skin cancer concerns/issues or tattoos.

Short sleeves with ties looks asinine no matter how much or how little "business" you do.

Iceberg

Do you wear long sleeves year round or should I call you Dwight?

gloopy

Nice ad hominem fallacy but I don't even own a long sleeve uniform shirt.

I also don't have any skin cancer concerns (yet) or any arm tattoos. I'm just stating what I've seen. That said, short sleeve shirts with ties look stupid and always will.

Iceberg

I don’t know if its because it’s not the norm or what, but long sleeve uniform shirts look funny to me. In regular settings, short sleeves and ties look funny to me.

I don’t understand how you can be so against them though, with multiple posts posted, while wearing the offending article.

redblueskies

The only time I've ever had a passenger comment on my uniform is when I was deadheading and she was ****ed about how much space all my Delta required uniform garbage was taking up in her overhead bin. I said sorry ma'am, I wish that none of it was up there but Delta requires us to tote around all these non functional uniform pieces and I'm not carrying them on my lap for the entire flight.

I suggested Delta should provide one simple Northface type jacket that we could easily pack or even sit with comfortably while deadheading. Hat & trench & blazer gone like they should have been decades ago. We could hire some clowns to dress up and walk around the terimal in the traditional pilot garb from last century, for those who just can't live without seeing it. Then the pilots that actually like dressing up like a civil war reenactment soldier can come do that on the weekends for some extra pay, the rest of us can more comfortably work to FAA duty limits and everyone is a little but happier.

But that won't happen at Delta because that's not how they've always done it. One more little thing to add the the growing list of reasons for people to go work elsewhere. Working 16 hour days is better if you're comfortable.

gloopy

I'm not getting your point.

Short sleeves with ties looks stupid.

Yes I wear the aforementioned "offending articles" combination, because it is required. But I don't like it and am in favor of getting rid of ties with short sleeve shirts.

I don't mind if you argree or disagree, but I'm not getting whatever intellectual issue it is that you have with this.

saturn

Whats funny to me is a formal suit with a short sleeve shirt underneath. Imagine showing up to the interview, blue suit + red tie of course, then popping off the blazer and a short sleeve white shirt underneath?. 🤣

As far as pilots, it appears to be just an American thing. Look at all the foreign airline uniforms...long sleeve pilot shirts underneath a suit. Not sure why its so 'faux pas' by some people. Its the standard formal shirt/suit combination since forever in men's fashion. White shirt cuffs are supposed to peek below coat sleeve. In the summer with no blazer, short sleeve makes sense.

Iceberg

Nothing intellectual about it. You’ve posted many times about the short sleeves and your dislike for them. I was curious if you wear them or choose to wear long sleeves. Dwight Schrute wears them so I threw in that reference. I apologize for my posts being somewhat antagonistic.

Gunfighter

Skin cancer mitigation combined with a proper sense of fashion makes long sleeve shirts very appealing.

Now if we could ditch the dang cranial thermal retention device. Every time I wear my hat from B38 through customs, back to B32 in JFK I'm breaking a sweat. If it's riding on my suitcase, no sweat... The only way it would be useful part of the uniform is with the addition of earflaps for walkarounds in MSP and DTW.