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03-30-2017, 04:38 AM
#9052
On Reserve
Joined APC: Mar 2017
Posts: 14
Define professional. I dont find anything in my company manual that dictates the usage of buttons on the blazer. So I guess that only leaves you. Are you the end all be all grand wizard when it comes to uniforms and professionalism?
Dont get me wrong, it may look better having it all buttoned up, but are we crossing a line of professionalism here?
Dont get me wrong, it may look better having it all buttoned up, but are we crossing a line of professionalism here?
Does your company manual tell you how to tie and wear your tie? You should tie it like a shoelace and wrap it around your head like a sweatband for those hot airports then.
They can't hold your hand for everything man. Don't look like a hot bag of garbage.
03-30-2017, 04:59 AM
#9053
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: May 2005
Posts: 1,275
I know a men's suit jacket should always have the bottom button unbuttoned. That's the way they are cut, to allow for that.
But we're not wearing a "traditional suit jacket," we're wearing a uniform coat, and something from my former Air Force days says to me that all my buttons on my uniform jacket should be buttoned.
Having said that, I usually wear my airline jacket with the bottom button unbuttoned.
03-30-2017, 05:20 AM
#9054
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Joined APC: Jun 2010
Position: DOWNGRADE COMPLETE: Thanks Gary. Thanks SWAPA.
Posts: 6,778
The argument on whether to button the bottom button or not (not, as it's traditionally worn and cut to not have that one buttoned) is small potatoes relative to the argument whether to button it at all or not. Note to those that walk around around the terminal in their uniform with the flaps waving in the self-induced breeze.......
You look amateurish to your fellow peers and the general public. If you're too hot, take off the blazer and lay it on your roller.
You look amateurish to your fellow peers and the general public. If you're too hot, take off the blazer and lay it on your roller.
03-30-2017, 05:25 AM
#9055
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Joined APC: Feb 2017
Posts: 2,275
The argument on whether to button the bottom button or not (not, as it's traditionally worn and cut to not have that one buttoned) is small potatoes relative to the argument whether to button it at all or not. Note to those that walk around around the terminal in their uniform with the flaps waving in the self-induced breeze.......
You look amateurish to your fellow peers and the general public. If you're too hot, take off the blazer and lay it on your roller.
You look amateurish to your fellow peers and the general public. If you're too hot, take off the blazer and lay it on your roller.
03-30-2017, 05:31 AM
#9056
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2013
Posts: 10,518
The argument on whether to button the bottom button or not (not, as it's traditionally worn and cut to not have that one buttoned) is small potatoes relative to the argument whether to button it at all or not. Note to those that walk around around the terminal in their uniform with the flaps waving in the self-induced breeze.......
You look amateurish to your fellow peers and the general public. If you're too hot, take off the blazer and lay it on your roller.
You look amateurish to your fellow peers and the general public. If you're too hot, take off the blazer and lay it on your roller.
03-30-2017, 05:31 AM
#9057
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jun 2010
Position: DOWNGRADE COMPLETE: Thanks Gary. Thanks SWAPA.
Posts: 6,778
So, uhm... Most of you became pilots to wear the uniform? To look a certain way, to live out scenes from "Catch Me If You Can"? I know of people like that, most of them never got past their instrument rating. Well hell, I ought to stop flying in my sweat pants and comfy t-shirt, I didn't know it was the uniform that made us professional.
Have some self-respect people. Look and act the part of a professional pilot.
03-30-2017, 05:50 AM
#9058
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Sep 2016
Posts: 400
Funny, maybe I'm a tool for even wading into this discussion, but I've always wondered about this.
I know a men's suit jacket should always have the bottom button unbuttoned. That's the way they are cut, to allow for that.
But we're not wearing a "traditional suit jacket," we're wearing a uniform coat, and something from my former Air Force days says to me that all my buttons on my uniform jacket should be buttoned.
Having said that, I usually wear my airline jacket with the bottom button unbuttoned.
I know a men's suit jacket should always have the bottom button unbuttoned. That's the way they are cut, to allow for that.
But we're not wearing a "traditional suit jacket," we're wearing a uniform coat, and something from my former Air Force days says to me that all my buttons on my uniform jacket should be buttoned.
Having said that, I usually wear my airline jacket with the bottom button unbuttoned.
In fact, it's even easier than buttoning everything.
03-30-2017, 06:19 AM
#9059
Junior Senior
Joined APC: Feb 2012
Position: Whiskey Papa
Posts: 2,851
I never knew this stuff about blazers/suit jackets. Seriously.
That said, please for the love of all that's holy, have some pride and wear the uniform correctly and with pride.
It's not that hard, people!
That said, please for the love of all that's holy, have some pride and wear the uniform correctly and with pride.
It's not that hard, people!
03-30-2017, 07:06 AM
#9060
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Joined APC: Jun 2010
Position: DOWNGRADE COMPLETE: Thanks Gary. Thanks SWAPA.
Posts: 6,778
Exactly, and if you need a little visual guidance take notice of an Emirates, Lufthansa, Korean Air, etc crew the next time one walks past you. One of the reasons they're respected far more in their respective countries than we are in ours is because they look and act the part.
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