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Posted: 6/3/2022 4:48:49 PM EDT

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Every day except Saturday.

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Posted: 6/3/2022 4:48:50 PM EDT

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Of course. My father started out in the airline industry as a baggage handler and worked his way up to a senior executive position at Continental airlines. Most of my later childhood my dad wore a suit to work. He was also a CPO and later an officer in the Navy reserves. Those dress uniforms were "suits" as well.

Myself on the other hand, I've never owned or wore a suit aside from my Marine dress uniform.

Posted: 6/3/2022 4:50:11 PM EDT

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Wore dress shirt and slacks to work every day, and a jacket/coat when it was cold and to church

Posted: 6/3/2022 4:53:59 PM EDT

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Yeah, and he made me do it too. I hated dressing up back then, and I still hate it now.

https://i.postimg.cc/0QGCwkNW/1963-Easter-Suit.jpg

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Hey, at least your jacket was cut correctly, unlike the too short too tight of today. lol

Posted: 6/3/2022 4:54:19 PM EDT

[#5]

A suit of clothes. Could be jeans, could be bibs. He was buried in a "business suit"

Posted: 6/3/2022 4:59:01 PM EDT

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Yes, he was a truck driver most of his adult life but always had a suit for weddings, funerals church etc. funny thing, he had a t shirt with a vest and tie silkscreened on to it and he wore it to make deliveries
One day and got a lot of compliments and “why are you dressed up today? Questions.

Posted: 6/3/2022 5:00:18 PM EDT

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He wore a suit 6 days a week.

5 days a week for work and on Sunday for Church.

Posted: 6/3/2022 5:04:33 PM EDT

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My father was a junior-high and high-school band director.
Do the math.

Posted: 6/3/2022 5:09:28 PM EDT

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If memory serves, my dad owned 3-4. I can remember him wearing them several times a year. Sometimes just for date night with my mother. My dad worked in a paper mill for much of my childhood, so I think he liked the change from time to time.

Posted: 6/3/2022 5:15:41 PM EDT

[#10]

Occasionally to church.

Posted: 6/3/2022 5:18:45 PM EDT

[#11]

Every damn day.

Except Saturdays.

One of the e reasons you’ll likely never find me in one.

Posted: 6/3/2022 5:20:43 PM EDT

[#12]

Weddings and funerals. He didn't always wear one on Sunday, either.

Posted: 6/3/2022 5:22:51 PM EDT

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Now, I should really dress semi professionally. But, they say "dress for your next job".....so I dress like I'm retired. No one has said anything. lol

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I wore a suit to one of our company meetings, just to troll Goatboy.

Posted: 6/3/2022 5:27:44 PM EDT

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Data collection thread

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lol

My dad was a boomer. He wore a suit most of his life (after he retired from the Army) as a civil servant. The last 10 years or so of his career he dressed it down a bit by taking the suit jacket off.

Posted: 6/3/2022 5:28:56 PM EDT

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Yep, every work day plus other occasions like nice dinners out, etc.

Posted: 6/3/2022 5:29:23 PM EDT

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I wore a suit to one of our company meetings, just to troll Goatboy.

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green polyester leisure suit? Gotta love the "70's"

Posted: 6/3/2022 5:29:25 PM EDT

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Only occasionally. My Dad had a couple of degrees in electrical engineering (From Cal-Poly) but he also spent a couple of decades doing sex offender recidivism studies for the State Hospital (Forensics Program) in Salem. He wore a suit on the days he had to give presentations to the new staff on the latest and greatest support plans for offenders (I personally thought that shallow graves after an injection of 158 grains of lead to the cranium would work just fine but Dad tried to keep shit "Professional"

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Posted: 6/3/2022 5:31:41 PM EDT

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Generally for Sunday Mass only.

Posted: 6/3/2022 5:42:31 PM EDT

[#19]

yes

Posted: 6/3/2022 5:45:04 PM EDT

[#20]

Yes, but not until later in life, during his tenure as a college president. I was an adult at that point.

When I was growing up, he mostly wore BDUs.

Posted: 6/3/2022 5:47:30 PM EDT

[#21]

There are pics of him in Nehru, tuxedo, leisure suit, brushed denim & regular old fashioned 2 button suits.

He got married in a white dinner jacket with black bowtie in the late 1950s to my mom, since that was the fashion.

Posted: 6/3/2022 5:52:07 PM EDT

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Dad was a small-town businessman and I recall him always in a suit until the early 1970s. When I was in grade school his daily attire would let him fit in with everyone in this photo.

Posted: 6/3/2022 5:53:31 PM EDT

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Dad was in the USAF until I was about 16 or so. He retired Lt. Colonel.

So he wore a uniform every weekday. I guess that qualifies as a suit?

Posted: 6/3/2022 5:54:17 PM EDT

[#24]

He never owned a suit that I remember, but he had several sport coats & slacks. I have pics of him in his younger years, handsome & quite dapper.

Posted: 6/3/2022 5:55:48 PM EDT

[#25]

Church, funerals, maybe to his ww2 reunion functions.

Daddy never was the Cadillac kind??

Posted: 6/3/2022 5:56:40 PM EDT

[#26]

with a hat.

Posted: 6/3/2022 5:57:23 PM EDT

[#27]

At weddings and funerals, those were the only times.

Posted: 6/3/2022 5:59:06 PM EDT

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My dad is an attorney so yeah, most days. Never went a week without seeing him in one for sure.

Posted: 6/3/2022 6:07:47 PM EDT

[#29]

My father was a working class business owner.

He was a dapper individual when he and my mom went out.

I miss them.

Posted: 6/3/2022 6:22:35 PM EDT

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Every week to church.

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Posted: 6/3/2022 7:19:12 PM EDT

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Dad was a small-town businessman and I recall him always in a suit until the early 1970s. When I was in grade school his daily attire would let him fit in with everyone in this photo.
http://www.albionmich.com/history/histor_notebook/images_08/AlbionBusinessmenca1950.jpg

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Back in those days wearing a hat was just important as the suit & tie.

Posted: 6/3/2022 7:22:41 PM EDT

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5 days a week not counting South Carolina seersucker suit weekends although I never saw those but I did see him wear the seersucker in Virginia and Delaware once.

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Summer "Sunday Go To Meeting clothes" for us...those were cool.

Posted: 6/3/2022 7:23:48 PM EDT

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I think the last time was his wedding.

If he has to dress up for a wedding or something it's always a nice shirt and jacket, clean blue jeans and his dress cowboy boots, hat and western tie.

Posted: 6/3/2022 7:26:35 PM EDT

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Every week to church.

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Plus at work sometimes, especially in winter. He was an engineer, so in the summer he would wear short sleeves with a tie, the official uniform of bus drivers and engineers back in the day.

Posted: 6/3/2022 7:31:21 PM EDT

[#35]

Not even in his coffin.

Posted: 6/3/2022 7:32:02 PM EDT

[#36]

Weddings and funerals. He's had the one suit since probably the 70s.

Posted: 6/3/2022 7:47:39 PM EDT

[#37]

Every time he went to church, about five times a fuckin week.

Posted: 6/3/2022 8:05:09 PM EDT

[#38]

Yes. Most of the time, he just wore a shirt and tie.

Posted: 6/3/2022 11:44:41 PM EDT

[#39]

Not really. Funerals and weddings. My dad worked a grey-collar job. Technician-type where you needed a degree yet a suit wouldn’t be appropriate at all. On the other hand, I have what most would consider a white-collar job yet I don’t wear a suit to work when I’m in front of customers. Khakis/collared shirt if needed.

Posted: 6/3/2022 11:51:04 PM EDT

[#40]

He wore a tux to my sisters wedding. Told me it was a waste of money and he wouldn’t do it for mine.

Posted: 6/3/2022 11:55:56 PM EDT

[#41]

My dad only wore a suit to church or funerals, and as he got older church attire was optional.

Posted: 6/4/2022 12:07:55 AM EDT

[#42]

I could probably count the times on one hand.

Posted: 6/4/2022 12:19:40 AM EDT

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Every day to work. After all, he was a professional.

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Posted: 6/4/2022 12:24:38 AM EDT

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Not even at his own funeral. I never saw him in a tie either.

Old school farmer.

Posted: 6/4/2022 12:30:09 AM EDT

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I'm 58 years old and the first time I saw my dad in a suit was for his wife's funeral last month. First time ever.

I on the other hand wear one each and every day for my IT job at a fortune 500 financial company. Crazy.