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Posted: 6/3/2022 12:37:00 PM EDT

[#1]

Yes to church every Sunday.

Posted: 6/3/2022 12:37:05 PM EDT

[#2]

To my sister's wedding

Posted: 6/3/2022 12:40:51 PM EDT

[#3]

Every day to work

Posted: 6/3/2022 12:42:09 PM EDT

[#4]

We were lucky if my dad had a shirt on

Posted: 6/3/2022 12:44:31 PM EDT

[#5]

he hurt someone's feelings once.

Posted: 6/3/2022 12:48:41 PM EDT

[#6]

There was a time back in the 50's and 60's where everyone wore a suit to church. Not only that but everyone wore a suit to fly on an airplane...

Posted: 6/3/2022 12:51:19 PM EDT

[#7]

Clip on tie and short sleeve dress shirts but no suits.

He was a safety engineer / inspector.

Posted: 6/3/2022 12:51:27 PM EDT

[#8]

My dad didn’t wear suits often, but grandpa wore his suit to dinner nearly every day. No particular reason, he just dressed that way. Brown necktie and a matching vest, and both his wingtip shoes.

Posted: 6/3/2022 12:54:20 PM EDT

[#9]

Still wears a suit every Sunday to church...

Yall still have self respect, too, right?

Posted: 6/3/2022 12:54:27 PM EDT

[#10]

He was a corporate lawyer. Suit and tie every day. Penny loafers were his casual shoes.

The apple fell far from the tree in the clothing aspect.

Posted: 6/3/2022 12:54:58 PM EDT

[#11]

All the time.

Posted: 6/3/2022 12:55:02 PM EDT

[#12]

No, I only remember him in a uniform. 50 some years later, I still miss him.

Posted: 6/3/2022 12:56:09 PM EDT

[#13]

Yes, father wore a suit, a flightsuit as A1-Skyraider pilot.

Posted: 6/3/2022 12:56:52 PM EDT

[#14]

Dad was a CPD detective from the mid 80s thru the early 2000s. It was pat of the uniform almost as much as the bushy mustache, which he also wore....

Posted: 6/3/2022 12:58:23 PM EDT

[#15]

Weddings and funerals. He was a blue collar guy. Welder for the old Euclid Road Machinery company in Cleveland that made huge trucks.

Posted: 6/3/2022 1:15:05 PM EDT

[#16]

My father was a funeral director, associate pastor, and a salesman. He wore a suit most of his life.

Posted: 6/3/2022 1:41:14 PM EDT

[#17]

You and your father didn’t wear matching suits?

Posted: 6/3/2022 2:35:08 PM EDT

[#18]

Only when my sisters got married or funerals.

Posted: 6/3/2022 2:43:09 PM EDT

[#19]

Yes to church every Sunday.

Posted: 6/3/2022 2:46:46 PM EDT

[#20]

My dad was a proession over a department, he never wore a suit to work and at the same company nobody does now either. 6 figure pay going back to the early 80's, office job the entire time, no suit. 81 now I guess he wore a sut or a rented tux at my sisters wedding 35+ years ago.

Posted: 6/3/2022 2:49:52 PM EDT

[#21]

Sure, we went to a cousins wedding, and when he died.

Posted: 6/3/2022 2:53:15 PM EDT

[#22]

POS stepdad wore prison orange. Does that count?

Posted: 6/3/2022 2:58:51 PM EDT

[#23]

Towards the end of his career in cpd, he retired a detective.

Posted: 6/3/2022 3:00:49 PM EDT

[#24]

My father wore a suit and tie everyday to work long after it was necessary or expected.

When I was a teenager, I asked him about it once. His answer was "they pay me A LOT of money, I want them to think they are getting their money's worth".

Posted: 6/3/2022 3:02:25 PM EDT

[#25]

Yes . . . usually one that looked something like this . . .

Posted: 6/3/2022 3:02:33 PM EDT

[#26]

My grandfather wore a tie everyday he was cruising timber that he was buying. Not a suit, but he was born in 1895.

Posted: 6/3/2022 3:02:40 PM EDT

[#27]

Nope. Denim shorts, VW/Baja racing shirts, mullet, and thick glasses.

The 90's were a different time.

Posted: 6/3/2022 3:03:12 PM EDT

[#28]

Once. At his funeral. He"s probably still mad it.

Posted: 6/3/2022 3:05:12 PM EDT

[#29]

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.

Posted: 6/3/2022 3:07:10 PM EDT

[#30]

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Otherwise, he was in his Army uniform.

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My Grandfather wore the Navy uniform as an officer for 20 years from WW2 to the early 60s and he wore suits on weekends too now that I think about it.

Posted: 6/3/2022 3:08:46 PM EDT

[#31]

Yes not all the time but whenever would would visit family or friends 50% of the time. Now I don’t see anyone in a suit unless it’s for a event.

Posted: 6/3/2022 3:15:14 PM EDT

[#32]

He was the branch manager of a Smith-Barney brokerage house.
So yeah, 5 days a week, and whenever he went to the country club for dinner.

Posted: 6/3/2022 3:16:55 PM EDT

[#33]

I remember my Dad wearing his USMC suit a lot. I've seen pictures of him wearing a civilian suit now and then, but don't recall ever seeing him in a suit in person. Just an easygoing guy from Wisconsin.

Posted: 6/3/2022 3:31:24 PM EDT

[#34]

I was very young, he did wear his dress uniform to his retirement.

Posted: 6/3/2022 3:32:10 PM EDT

[#35]

During his las three years in the Navy, my father had to wear a suit every day. He hated it, but he was able to have a beard again.

Posted: 6/3/2022 3:36:51 PM EDT

[#36]

He has one suit in his closet & I think its from the 70s...

Posted: 6/3/2022 3:37:26 PM EDT

[#37]

When he was selling used cars he did. You have to look good to reel those suckers in.

Posted: 6/3/2022 3:38:07 PM EDT

[#38]

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Yup every day for work

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Posted: 6/3/2022 3:38:14 PM EDT

[#39]

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he hurt someone's feelings once.

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And a man wore a hat out in public, not like the bare headed savages we have devolved into.

Posted: 6/3/2022 3:40:11 PM EDT

[#40]

Dad was a golf pro and always wore dope attire. Think Pink shirt with purple plaid pants.

Dude pulled more ass than a rock star.

Posted: 6/3/2022 3:46:15 PM EDT

[#41]

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Clip on tie and short sleeve dress shirts but no suits.

He was a safety engineer / inspector.

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That uniform also requires a mandatory pocket protector and a red pen and/or a mechanical pencil.

Posted: 6/3/2022 3:46:49 PM EDT

[#42]

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Still wears a suit every Sunday to church...

Yall still have self respect, too, right?

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Hell no. I sold my self respect for gas money.

Posted: 6/3/2022 3:50:09 PM EDT

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Yes, he's a Lutheran Pastor. Shirt and tie to work everyday, suit on Sunday and to special events. Secularly, he's worn suits to numerous weddings, funerals, nice restaurants, get togethers, etc.

ETA: What man doesn't?

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Sounds a lot like my dad! Hello fellow P-K!

Posted: 6/3/2022 3:54:27 PM EDT

[#44]

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Every week to church.

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Yup. We had to dress up as well. Comb my hair, too.

Posted: 6/3/2022 4:00:27 PM EDT

[#45]

Not until after he left the USAF and started working as a civilian contractor

Posted: 6/3/2022 4:10:24 PM EDT

[#46]

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

Posted: 6/3/2022 4:31:09 PM EDT

[#47]

For a long time yes. Supervisor position. Later he wore dress pants and button up dress shirt.

Was the 1970s same position now a guy will wear dockers and T shirt. Times have changed.

Posted: 6/3/2022 4:41:16 PM EDT

[#48]

Dan Akroyd as Sgt. Joe Friday stole my dad's whole civilian schtick...except for the charm bracelet everything else suit,tie,shirt,shoes,trousers,and hat were his @ 1950ish...those two even looked quite a bit alike.
Other than that he was a CWO4 USN

Posted: 6/3/2022 4:45:08 PM EDT

[#49]

Church, weddings, funerals.

Posted: 6/3/2022 4:45:50 PM EDT

[#50]

My Dad wore a suit to work every day until the day he stopped working.

I was the last guy wearing a suit at my company circa 2004.

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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